“I’ve determined one of the best ways ahead is to cross the torch to a brand new era,” mentioned President Joe Biden tonight from the Oval Workplace. “That’s one of the best ways to unite our nation,” the 81-year-old incumbent said of his exit from the 2024 race and fast endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris for the Democratic nomination.
Definitely, response to Biden’s speech has been virtually completely united in reward. Blacklist founder Leonard Franklin and Stephen King each maybe put it finest and most bluntly quickly after Biden’s just below 15-minutes remarks ended.
One of many huge Hollywood donors who known as for Biden to withdraw from his reelection efforts after the president’s debate debacle of June 27, the director of The American President left nothing on the desk tonight.
The previous Mayor of New Orleans and a high Biden adviser and a high aide (who wasn’t all the time an enormous Biden followers) to Barack Obama additionally went for the much less is extra response.
Star Trek: Picard star Jeri Ryan leaned ahead out of the speech.
Kamala Harris’ self-described “speedy response” X/Twitter feed paid respect with the president’s personal phrases, as did The Wire alum Wendell Pierce:
A possible presidential candidate in the future and a political adopted son of Joe Biden, the Governor of California went for brevity too:
Yvette Nicole Brown gave a shout out to a former POTUS near his one hundredth birthday in her response to tonight’s speech.
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