After Biden announced his withdrawal from the presidential election, sources said that Biden’s family felt “relieved”
On July 21, local time, the current US President Biden announced his withdrawal from the 2024 presidential campaign and expressed support for nominating Vice President Harris as the Democratic presidential candidate. ABC News quoted sources on the same day as saying that on Sunday night, in conversations with Biden family insiders and people close to Biden, one word kept appearing: relief. A person close to the Biden family told ABC that “for those who love Biden and are closest to Biden… there is a sense of relief.” ABC said that the news of the past few weeks has obviously had an impact on those around the president. Sources said that watching allies abandon him and the news media scrutinizing his every move was a “painful” experience for Biden. The report mentioned that another source also revealed that before issuing a statement on Sunday morning, Biden told his brother James Biden and sister Valerie Biden Owens that he planned to withdraw from the campaign and support Harris. The source also said that Biden’s two siblings have been with him since Biden’s first campaign, but this time they did not try to persuade Biden to stick with it. Earlier, several U.S. media reported that U.S. President Biden announced his withdrawal from the 2024 presidential election on social media X on the 21st local time, and supported Harris for the Democratic nomination. Trump also responded to Biden’s withdrawal immediately, saying that if Harris won the Democratic nomination, it would be easier to defeat her than to defeat Biden.