President Joe Biden walks past boxes of cereal in an aisle as he visits Mario’s Westside Market in Las Vegas, Tuesday, July 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
KEY HIGHLIGHTS
- Joe Biden has given the clearest possible indication of what will make him step down from the election race.
- He spoke about it in an interview with BET amid rising pressure from Democrat lawmakers to step away.
- Biden said that he will step away only if doctors diagnosed him with a medical condition and recommended that he reconsider his candidacy.
President Joe Biden has given the clearest yet signal about dropping out from the US Presidential race amid rising pressure from his party to step away. Speaking in a recorded interview by BET, the 81-year-old said that he would drop out if the doctors diagnosed him with a medical condition and barred him from contesting in the elections.
“If I had some medical condition that emerged, if somebody, if doctors came to me and said, you got this problem and that problem,” Biden said when asked what would make him reconsider his candidacy.