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The newspaper La Jornada
Saturday, July 20, 2024, p. 23
Washington. Time’s up. Get out.more Democrats told US President Joe Biden yesterday, pushing him to abandon his presidential candidacy, US media reported. Thirty-four lawmakers have now publicly called on him to withdraw from the election race, including Sherrod Brown (Ohio), Martin Heinrich (New Mexico), Jon Tester (Montana) and Peter Welch (Vermont).
His candidacy is on track to lose the White House and potentially impact crucial House and Senate races. For these reasons, I urge him to step aside.said Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren yesterday.
Meanwhile, Biden said he will resume his campaign next week, while attacking Donald Trump, saying that His dark vision of the future is not who we are as Americans. Together, as a party and as a country, we can and will defeat him.wrote the 81-year-old president in a statement from his beach house in Delaware (east), where he isolated himself after testing positive for covid-19.
Biden campaign chairwoman Jen O’Malley Dillion acknowledged a decrease in support of the ruler, but insisted that he continues absolutely in the race and that the campaign sees multiple paths to defeat Trump.
US Vice President Kamala Harris assured major Democratic donors yesterday: We are going to win this election.
For its part, the White House reported that the president’s symptoms of Covid-19 have diminished in the last 24 hours, although he remains under medication, but “he has improved significantly and continues to work,” said Kevin O’Connor, the head of state’s doctor yesterday.
Trump-Zelensky rapprochement
Meanwhile, Republican candidate Donald Trump spoke yesterday by phone with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and promised to end the war between kyiv and Moscow.
We agreed with President Trump to discuss in a personal meeting what steps can make peace fair and truly lasting.the Ukrainian president wrote on his X account.
Trump, for his part, wrote on his Truth Social platform: I, as the next president of the United States, will bring peace to the world and end the war that has claimed so many lives and devastated countless innocent families. .