US President Joe Biden will resume his election campaign next week after ending his isolation due to mild COVID-19 symptoms, the Democrat's campaign manager said on Friday. “Joe Biden has made it clear: he is in this race and he wants to win it. He has no plan for an alternative candidate,” the president's campaign said.
“He absolutely is,” Biden campaign chairwoman Jen O’Malley Dillon told MSNBC, adding that while the president takes concerns about his candidacy seriously among some Democrats, he is committed to running for a second term.
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Joe Biden “is taking part in the exit”
Biden's campaign team assures that the president USA will remain the Democratic Party candidate in November elections.
“Joe Biden has made it clear: he is in this race and he wants to win it. There is no plan for an alternative candidate,” wrote Dan Kanninen, a member of Biden's campaign team, in an internal memo cited by American and British media.
“In a few weeks, Joe Biden will become the official candidate. It's high time we stopped fighting each other. The only person who wins when we fight each other is Donald Trump,” Kanninen stressed.
He added that although voters have mentioned his age in conversations with Biden's campaign members, the Democratic target electorate plans to vote for the current president.
The Democratic National Convention will be held on August 22.
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Joe Biden has COVID-19
Biden tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 on Wednesday while in Las Vegas, forcing him to pause his campaign. He is isolating at his vacation home in the Delaware coastal resort of Rehoboth Beach.
This is the second infection coronavirus at 81-year-old Biden. He first had COVID-19 in July 2022. He is vaccinated against the coronavirus.
Biden's illness comes at a time when pressure is mounting for him to withdraw from the presidential election. Criticisms emerged in June after the Democrat's poor performance in a televised debate with Donald TrumpThe White House explained that one reason for his poor performance was a cold he was suffering from at the time.
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