{"id":54666,"date":"2024-07-25T14:50:06","date_gmt":"2024-07-25T04:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=54666"},"modified":"2024-07-25T14:50:06","modified_gmt":"2024-07-25T04:50:06","slug":"biden-says-time-to-pass-torch-to-younger-voices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=54666","title":{"rendered":"Biden says time to pass torch to &#8216;younger voices&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>US President Joe Biden told Americans Wednesday he quit the 2024 election to unite the country, saying in a historic Oval Office speech that it was time to pass the torch to &#8220;younger voices.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I revere this office. But I love my country more,&#8221; the 81-year-old said in an elegiac prime-time address to the nation urging his divided country to embrace democracy and shun hatred.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The defense of democracy, which is at stake, is more important than any title,&#8221; Biden said. &#8220;I have decided the best way forward is to pass the torch to a new generation. That is the best way to unite our nation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In his first televised address since his stunning decision, Biden also hailed his Vice President Kamala Harris, 59, who is set to be the new Democratic presidential nominee.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She&#8217;s experienced. She&#8217;s tough. She&#8217;s capable,&#8221; Biden said in just the fourth address of his presidency from behind the Resolute Desk &#8212; and likely his last.<\/p>\n<p>Biden bowed out of the race later than any other president in US history, giving in to weeks of pressure from Democrats after a disastrous debate performance against Donald Trump raised concerns about his age.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Joe Biden told Americans Wednesday he quit the 2024 election to unite the country, saying in a historic Oval Office speech that it was time to pass the torch to &#8220;younger voices.&#8221; &#8220;I revere this office. But I love my country more,&#8221; the 81-year-old said in an elegiac prime-time address to the nation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2020],"class_list":["post-54666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-biden-says-time-to-pass-torch-to-younger-voices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}