Biden says he’d consider exiting race if advised by doctors

Published July 17, 2024 2:27pm ET



President Joe Biden says that he would consider dropping out of the 2024 election if his medical staff diagnosed him with a new condition or disease that would make continuing to run impossible.

“If I had some medical condition that emerged, if somebody, if doctors came to me and said, you got this problem and that problem,” the president said during an interview with BET’s Ed Gordon when asked if there is anything that could make him change his decision to run.

The president’s comments came after he has mounted a fierce defense of his candidacy following the first presidential debate with former President Donald Trump in June, defying calls from some leading Democrats for him to make way for a new nominee.

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