President Joe Biden has announced that he’s pulling out of the 2024 presidential stride.

The 81-year-worn—who was as soon as working as the Democratic Social gathering candidate—U.S. chief said in a converse that whereas he’s ending his reelection campaign, he’ll remain in quandary of labor unless his time period ends in January 2025. His opponent, used President Donald Trump, remains within the stride as the Republican Social gathering candidate.

“It has been the finest honor of my life to lend a hand as your President,” the forty sixth President wrote in a July 21 converse shared to social media. “And whereas it has been my arrangement to peep reelection, I mediate it’s miles within the suitable hobby of my social gathering and the country for me to face down and to focal point completely on good my responsibilities as President for the remainder of my time period.”

Biden said in his converse he would “stammer to the Nation later this week in more detail” about his resolution.

“For now, let me negate my deepest gratitude to all those that bear labored so hard to admire me reelected,” he endured. “I want to thank Vice President Kamala Harris for being an remarkable partner in all this work. And let me negate my heartfelt appreciation to the American americans for the faith and belief you bear gotten placed in me.”

In a practice-up message, he counseled Harris, 59, as the Democratic candidate.

“My fellow Democrats, I for sure bear determined to now not web the nomination and to focal point all my energies on my responsibilities as President for the remainder of my time period,” he shared. “My very first resolution as the social gathering nominee in 2020 was as soon as to pick Kamala Harris as my Vice President. And it’s been the suitable resolution I’ve made.”

He endured, “On the present time I want to provide my full strengthen and endorsement for Kamala to be the nominee of our social gathering this year. Democrats—it’s time to reach lend a hand together and beat Trump. Let’s attain this.”

Rapidly after sharing the news, Biden’s better half, First Woman Jill Biden, reacted to the news, resharing his letter on X and along side a heart emoji.

The President's granddaughter Naomi Biden also wrote on her anecdote, “I’m nothing but proud at the moment of my Pop, our President, Joe Biden, who has served our country with every bit of his soul and with unmatched distinction.”

The 30-year-worn in most cases is named him “the suitable president of our lifetime” and sadded, “Our world is finest at the moment in so many methods thanks to him.”

The resolution comes amid calls for Biden—who previously served as Vice President below Barack Obama and a Senator for Delaware—to pull out of the stride. Extra recently, George Clooney wrote an op-ed for the New York Times asking his “friend” to rethink his resolution to trip for any other time period.

“I tackle Joe Biden,” the Oscar winner wrote. “As a senator. As a vice president and as president. I take into consideration him a chum, and I mediate in him. Think in his character. Think in his morals. Within the last four years, he’s obtained loads of the battles he’s confronted.”

Referencing Biden's age, he added, “the one strive in opposition to he can’t receive is the war in opposition to time.”