{"id":62556,"date":"2024-07-25T06:40:10","date_gmt":"2024-07-25T06:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=62556"},"modified":"2024-07-25T06:40:10","modified_gmt":"2024-07-25T06:40:10","slug":"biden-defends-passing-the-torch-to-harris-as-he-gives-first-speech-since-dropping-out-of-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2024\/07\/25\/biden-defends-passing-the-torch-to-harris-as-he-gives-first-speech-since-dropping-out-of-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden defends passing the torch to Harris as he gives first speech since dropping out of race"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-61901\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Kamala-Harris-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Kamala-Harris-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Kamala-Harris-360x240.jpg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Kamala-Harris.jpg 474w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"dropcap-element-slot\">D<\/span>ays after becoming the first sitting president in decades to forsake a run for a second term, President\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/joe-biden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Joe Biden<\/a>\u00a0said he decided to\u00a0<a title=\"Elections 2024 live: Joe Biden set to address nation from Oval Office on why he dropped out of presidential race\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/us-politics\/joe-biden-speech-live-watch-address-harris-b2585495.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">drop out of the 2024 presidential race<\/a> because it was\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/world\/biden-defends-passing-the-torch-to-harris-as-he-gives-first-speech-since-dropping-out-of-race\/ar-BB1qzHkd?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=117ecb89d1a34474a32b0f6ee861ec40&amp;ei=116\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Days after becoming the first sitting president in decades to forsake a run for a second term, President\u00a0Joe Biden\u00a0said he decided to\u00a0drop&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-62556","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Bidens-speech.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62558,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62556\/revisions\/62558"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}