Starmer says Biden's decision to withdraw from the US presidential race is 'in best interests' of US
Bill and Hillary Clinton have endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris to be the Democrat's nominee for this year's presidential election. The former president and former secretary of state thanked Joe Biden for his 'extraordinary career of service'. They said he had 'lifted America' out of the Covid pandemic, created millions of new jobs, boosted the economy, 'strengthened our democracy' and restored the US's global standing.
'We've lived through many ups and downs, but nothing has made us more worried for our country than the threat posed by a second Trump term,' they wrote in a joint statement shared on X. They said Trump had 'promised to be a dictator on day one' and said his 'servile Supreme Court' would 'only embolden him to further shred the constitution.
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