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President Biden will speak about his decision not to run for reelection in an Oval Office address Wednesday night, his first remarks on the subject since he announced Sunday he was dropping out of the 2024 presidential race.
“I have decided the best way forward is to pass the torch to a new generation,” he is expected to say, according to an excerpt released by the White House. “That is the best way to unite our nation.”
For the remaining six months in his term, Mr. Biden plans to be focused on the job of the presidency and is expected to promise, “I will continue to lower costs for hard-working families and grow our economy. I will keep defending our personal freedoms and our civil rights – from the right to vote – to the right to choose.”
“The defense of democracy is more important than any title,” he’ll say. “I draw strength, and find joy, in working for the American people. But this sacred task of perfecting our Union is not about me. It’s about you. Your families. Your futures. It’s about ‘We the People.’”
And Mr. Biden, who ran on the idea that democracy itself was at stake in 2020 and is again in 2024 with Donald Trump as the Republican nominee, will remind Americans that they are the ones who will determine America’s destiny: “The great thing about America is here, kings and dictators do not rule.
