Breaking: Biden drops out of presidential race

And in (perhaps) related note, Republicans everywhere are rejoicing.

From NBC News (emphasis added by me) -

President Joe Biden drops out of 2024 presidential race

Biden, after a five-decade career, faced a reckoning over his age and his ability to defeat Trump. He endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris as his party faces a historic effort to replace him. 

President Joe Biden announced Sunday that he will end his presidential re-election campaign, bringing an abrupt and humbling conclusion to his half-century-long political career and scrambling the race for the White House just four months before Election Day.

Biden, 81, could not reverse growing sentiment within his party that he was too frail to serve and destined to lose to Donald Trump in November. He backed Vice President Kamala Harris to replace him as the Democratic nominee.

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Across the aisle, Republicans slammed the move and many called on him to resign his office, days after the completion of a Republican National Convention where speaker after speaker slammed the Biden-Harris ticket.

"If Joe Biden is not fit to run for president, he is not fit to serve as President. He must resign the office immediately,” said House Speaker Mike Johnson.

In a brief phone interview with NBC News, Trump reacted to Biden's decision, calling the president "the worst president in the history of the United States by far."

When asked whether he was surprised by Biden's decision, Trump said that Biden "should never have been there in the first place."

“He should have stayed in his basement," Trump said.

In a fundraising email, Trump’s campaign said that Biden “quit the race in complete disgrace.”

Anyone want to tell Cheeto that there's some who disagree with his "worst ever" opinion.

From Axios, dated February 19, 2024 -

Read: Historians rank Trump as worst president

Presidential historians in a new survey rank President Biden as the 14th best president in U.S. history — and put former President Trump last.

The big picture: The tally came from 154 presidential specialists who are current and recent members of the American Political Science Association. They were asked to give every president a score, from 0 to 100.

Zoom in: Abraham Lincoln topped the list with an average score of 95, while Biden scored an average of 62.66. That put him two spots above Ronald Reagan.

• Representatives for Trump, who averaged just under 11 points, did not immediately respond to Axios' request for comment.

I expect that the next few days, in fact in all day leading up to the Democratic convention, will be chaotic as various players consider if they have a path to unseat Harris as the presumptive Democratic nominee.

I fully expect that Harris will emerge as the nominee, but the jockeying to be the Democratic VP nominee will be fierce.