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Joe Biden contemplates dropping out of 2024 US presidential race
- The once-defiant US president is now ‘soul searching’ about stepping aside, one insider says
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US President Joe Biden was “soul searching” about dropping his Democratic re-election campaign, a source said, while Donald Trump prepared to accept the Republican presidential nomination.
The fortunes of the two candidates appeared to be on opposite trajectories on Thursday in the run-up to the November 5 election.
Biden, 81, was isolating at his Delaware home after contracting Covid-19, while facing a growing revolt from Democrats who urged him to step aside to avert a landslide defeat. His doctor said he was experiencing mild symptoms.
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Trump, 78, has basked all week in adulation at the Republican National convention in Milwaukee after surviving a weekend assassination attempt at a Pennsylvania rally.
For the fourth consecutive night, Trump made a grand entrance into the arena during the programme, still wearing a bandage over the ear that was wounded on Saturday and drawing huge applause.
Trump’s acceptance speech offered a chance to lay out his vision for a second White House term before a prime time national television audience.
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