Summary
Here’s a look at where things stand:
On Sunday, CBS News Sunday Morning will air an interview with Joe Biden, discussing the president’s decision not to seek reelection. “Although it’s a great honor to be a president, I think I have an obligation to the country to do what I – most important thing you can do. And that is – we must, we must, we must defeat Trump,” he said.
The justice department on Friday announced criminal charges against three executives at the voting machine company Smartmatic in connection to an alleged 2016 bribery scheme in the Philippines. The indictment, filed in federal court in south Florida, comes as the company has faced false accusations it was involved in rigging the 2020 election.
Alpha Kappa Alpha, the historic Black sorority that Kamala Harris joined in college, has created a political action committee. The news comes from a filing with the Federal Election Commission dated Friday, the New York Times reports.
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are going to attend an event together in Maryland next Thursday, according to the White House. This will be their first appearance together in person since the US president announced on 21 July that he would no longer seek re-election.
Newly released body cam and dashboard camera footage from local Pennsylvania police officers on 13 July shows the moments right before the attempted assassination of former president Donald Trump at his rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. The footage, obtained by CNN through a public records request, shows the moment one police officer climbed up to the roof of the building overlooking rally, and saw the shooter just before the firing began.
FiveThirtyEight’s new poll shows Harris leading Donald Trump by 2.1 points in the national average. Before Harris entered the race late last month, Joe Biden, who was then running for re-election, before dropping out and handing the torch to Harris, “was behind [Trump] by a significant number, not just at the national popular vote, but in battleground states”.
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On Sunday, CBS News Sunday Morning will air an interview with Joe Biden, discussing the president’s decision not to seek re-election.
“When I ran the first time, I thought of myself as being a transition president,” Biden told CBS News. “I can’t even say how old I am – it’s hard for me to get it out of my mouth.”
“Although it’s a great honor to be a president, I think I have an obligation to the country to do what I – most important thing you can do. And that is – we must, we must, we must defeat Trump,” he said.
Biden withdrew from the 2024 presidential election on 21 July, and endorsed his vice-president, Kamala Harris, immediately after.
Read David Smith’s analysis on Biden’s decision to withdraw for more background ahead of the interview this weekend:
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