Biden to announce withdrawal in speech to the nation on Wednesday

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Lerato Khumalo

10.33 am: US President Joe Biden has reportedly canceled nine trips planned for the next two weeks after withdrawing from his candidacy. The New York Post reports this, citing an anonymous source in the White House.

Biden was supposed to travel to the west coast of the USA on Monday – with stops in Denver, Houston and Austin, among others. However, these trips were suddenly canceled, according to the source. Biden is currently at his beach house in Delaware, where he is recovering from a corona infection. According to the report, he wants to extend his stay there until Wednesday.

According to the report, the source did not give a reason for the cancellation of the trips. However, Biden’s corona illness is not the reason for the cancellation, it is said. Biden’s personal physician Kevin O’Connor said on Monday that Biden had almost recovered from the illness. “They started canceling things when he announced that he was not going to run for re-election,” the source said in the report.

There are already rumors on Platform X that the 81-year-old’s health has deteriorated. But this has not yet been confirmed. In fact, Biden was connected to a telephone press conference on Monday evening, in which he again promised his Vice President Kamala Harris his support as a replacement candidate. “I will do whatever she asks me to do,” said Biden.

9.14 am: US Vice President Kamala Harris is already starting her election campaign as a possible replacement candidate for Joe Biden – and is attacking Donald Trump. On Facebook, she writes: “Donald Trump wants to take our country back to a time when many of our fellow Americans did not yet have full freedoms and rights, but we believe in a better future that offers space for all Americans.”

She had previously said during an appearance before campaign workers in Wilmington that as a prosecutor and attorney general of California, she had dealt with criminals of all kinds. “Criminals who abused women, fraudsters who ripped off consumers, and con artists who broke the rules for their own benefit,” said Harris. “So listen to me when I say that I know guys like Donald Trump.” Read more about that here.