Biden will address nation Wednesday on his decision to drop reelection bid

President Joe Biden addresses the nation from the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, July 14. Biden will address the nation Wednesday on his decision to drop his 2024 Democratic reelection bid.

President Joe Biden addresses the nation from the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, July 14. Biden will address the nation Wednesday on his decision to drop his 2024 Democratic reelection bid. (Erin Schaff, The New York Times )


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REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. — President Joe Biden will address the nation from the Oval Office on Wednesday evening on his decision to drop his 2024 Democratic reelection bid.

Biden posted on social platform X that he would speak "on what lies ahead" and how he will "finish the job for the American people." He will speak at 6 p.m. MDT.

The president is scheduled to return to the White House on Tuesday after isolating at his Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, home after being diagnosed last week with COVID-19. Biden is now testing negative for the virus and his symptoms have resolved, according to a letter from his doctor, Kevin O'Connor, released Tuesday.

Biden has not been seen publicly since July 17, but he called into a campaign meeting on Monday to address staff and express his support for Vice President Kamala Harris' bid to replace him a day after announcing he would leave the race.

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