Joe Biden Dropped Out. What’s Next?

President Biden on Sunday abruptly abandoned his campaign for a second term under intense pressure from fellow Democrats and threw his support to Vice President Kamala Harris to lead their party in a dramatic last-minute bid to stop Donald Trump from returning to the White House.

Peter Baker, the chief White House correspondent for The New York Times, explains what happened as Biden decided to withdraw, and what could happen next.

Video by Peter Baker, Claire Hogan, Rebecca Suner, Alexandra Ostasiewicz and James Surdam/The New York Times

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[Blossom-of-God]

"Too old to be President" is very rude. Trump has the energy and the wit worth several Kamalas and Joes put together.

[bdawg]

I ASSUME NOW THE NYTIMES WILL POST 87 ARTICLES ABOUT TRUMPS AGE LIKE THEY DID WITH BIDEN. WALL TO WALL COVERAGE

[maximyarmolik]

Why was that shocking? It was expected

[henryg]

When did Biden drop out? You mean the letter with digital signature? NYT come on you can do better than this.

[austinmoon]

You think you just fell out of a coconut tree? You exist in context of all in which you live and what came before you.

[Jacobzx]

Thank you Ezra. This all started with you!

[alicemc]

NYTimes won't let me read their articles without a subscription, so I'm here watching the videos.

[Clouddark]

As a largest democracy we are deeply concerned about racism and human rights in very 1st democracy (from🇮🇳)

[vpoya]

i can't believe that anyone believes that harris is better than trump. but do you know what woman we are talking about? americans are unable to make choices for the whole world, absurd

[houseplant]

Very brave, finally someone who acts upon the change everyone talks about. If the Republicans also drop Trump, we'd finally be done with this joke.

[kaze]

Time for Dark Brandon to fully emerge. He's a loose cannon! Give all the honours and medals to whoever he wants. Executive orders galore! Might as well try to enjoy his last 6 months in office.

[bonnielass]

I really don't feel like this is what he wanted to do; I'm pretty positive getting such strong influencers in the Democratic Party urging him to step down is what pushed him to do it. I'm proud of him and all he's done. I hope he knows there are plenty of us out here that appreciate all that he's accomplished during all his years in service and, personally, I think he did way better than anticipated than when he ran. Was he perfect? of course not, but name ONE who was (besides, maybe Teddy Roosevelt or Lincoln). You did a FANTASTIC time, President Biden, especially considering what you had to follow and all the discord and broken unity of the country and people that are complicit to anti-democracy, etc. I hope you aren't stepping away feeling undervalued because I know history will remember you kindly. You are GOOD MAN!

[whyxkrz]

So it is between the Prosecutor (Harris) vs the Convicted Criminal (trump).

[sdalamgirBD]

Why did the government shut down the network of Bangladesh? Why is the police killing students in Bangladesh now?

[dbff]

Can we talk about 3 month before we vote or that don’t matter?

[tkgxusj]

…Advanced math-rule will have prevailed over our world…Endless zero-repeat methodology bigins and our world orders are to follow new rules…；…　　　　　　　　 …Singularity point of math should be controled by endless zero-repeat methodlogy…

[sarysa]

Joe wasn't too old, he was too infirm. Remember that there are folks out there much older who could pull it off.

Be careful with the narrative. Generalizations are dangerous and most of us will get to be old enough to play senility roulette. It might be worse to win said roulette but have everyone assume otherwise.

[PamDubier]

I don’t know why The DNC doesn’t make the whole “Who’s going to be our nominee?” a reason to stir excitement about all of the qualified people. Why are they not letting their members make a decision at the convention? This is where Trump excels and leaves The Dems in the dust.

[KrustyKlown]

NEXT?? .. Trump gets sentenced to Prison.

[ramsg]

He was always a gentleman when his brain has worked.