VIDEO | Biden shuts down all the rumors: “I’m staying in the race”

"I will not let a 90-minute debate erase three and a half years of work"

ROME – “Let me say it as clearly as possible: I am the incumbent president of the United States. I am the candidate of the Democratic Party. I’m staying in the race.”

Joe Biden shuts down rumors about hispossible withdrawal from the 2024 presidential race. After the televised confrontation with the Republican candidate Donald Trump , which Biden himself defined as not exciting, many had invited the current occupant of the White House to take a step back, even among supporters of the Democratic Party. Reflections which, according to the New York Times, had brought the eighty-year-old close to choosing to retire. All denied. “I will not let a 90-minute debate erase three and a half years of work. I will stay in the race and I will beat Donald Trump.”