the president making that announcement just a few hours ago. the first president since 1968 to not seek reelection. good evening. good evening, everybody. i am martha maccallum joining you. this decision comes literally after dozens of democrats pressured the current president to step aside. it really all started the ball rolling on june 27 with the first debate against former president trump a lot of people called that a disastrous debate for president joe biden. here is a statement released just before 2:00 p.m. this afternoon. it has been the greatest honor my life to serve as your president and while it has been my intention to seek reelection i believe he is in the best interest with the party and country to stand down and focus solely down on fulfilling my duties as president for the remainder of my term. two separate statements. a statement that came moments after that, president biden endorse kamala harris to become the party s nominee. how the top of the democr
all right. we re following a lot of developments here, including, getting ready for the republican convention right now. donald trump, of course, ready to accept his party s nomination and maybe he ll be campaigning in pennsylvania about his running mate? maybe too soon to tell. on the other side is, well, joe biden and dealing with a bit of a rift in his party and it might be an understatement and 19 democrats, and joe, it s time to go. he s trying to convince more democrats not to and lucas has more. speaking in a rally in detroit, more questions about president biden s mental acuity surfaced when the president appeared to forget the name of michigan congresswoman debbie dingell, he s known for decades. congresswoman debby haley by the way, i ve spent a lot of time with debby and she s helped me a lot and i forget which event we were at and someone said, you re his wife, aren t you? because she looks like jill, my wife. of course, neil, debby s late husband was th
you tomorrow night right now, a stage in michigan that s where president biden is about to speak any moment at a rally, a state his campaign admits is crucial, is key as must win to their path to victory in november, biden is trying to steady his campaign. he s trying to shift the national attention back to trump. we re gonna be taking this rally live here. we do anticipate in walking up there any second, biden s rally in michigan does follow some welcome news for the president today, according to a new poll, biden is statistically bleed tied with trump actually up 50, 50 to 48%. now that is statistical tie although he s the one directionally up there. and that is the same exact margin that biden had before the debate a poll is a poll, it s a moment in time, it is a poll. it is still something to consider and it is not stopping for new democratic house members though today from calling for biden to step aside, the total number right now tonight of those making that call of th
happening now breaking news, president biden, his camp campaigning in the crucial battleground. from state of michigan, right now, democratic pressure to end his reelection bid persisting though, following his high-stakes primetime news conference that we re going to hear from the president live this hour in standby for that up on capitol hill, 19 democrats now are calling for president biden to quit the race. we re learning that one of those laws makers directly confronted the president during a call today, telling him it s time to bow out all of this is donald trump is staying mum about his vice vice-presidential pick with the republican national convention down only three days away, we re going to tell you what we know and don t know about trump s vice presidential reveal. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room the skis, cnn breaking news. we re following breaking news. president biden takin
products. we also make proactive urinary tract thanks help product you, cora, is a lyptsi tried today at your core.com when nancy pelosi speaks, democrats listen, but we ll joe biden the former speaker, says the president needs to make a decision about his run for the white house there s just one problem. he s been saying for days. that is minds already made up we re going to see president biden this hour from the nato summit and opening statements today in the matter and slaughtered trial of alec baldwin, he faces up to 18 months in prison the film s armorer has already been found guilty. we re covering every development and two astronauts are talking for the first time about there unexpected time on the international space station. when they could return to earth despite their malfunctioning spacecraft following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central from hollywood to the halls of congress, growing calls from within the d