Joe Biden was forced to withdraw from a campaign speech after contracting COVID.
The president of the United States was due to deliver a speech to UnidosUS, the nation’s largest Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization, in Las Vegas later today.
mr biden is experiencing mild symptoms, the White House said, including “general malaise” from the infection.
He will return to Delaware to self-isolate and from where he will “continue to fully perform all of his duties during that time,” press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said.
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Biden, who faces increasing pressure to drop out of the presidential race because of his age, was not wearing a mask when he boarded Air Force One from Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas.
When asked by the press how he felt, the 81-year-old responded: “Good. I feel good.”
He then cautiously climbed the stairs to his plane.
An official said Biden developed upper respiratory symptoms this afternoon, including a runny nose and cough.
The president is vaccinated and reinforced, they added.
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It comes just hours after an excerpt of a taped interview emerged in which Biden said he would only consider dropping out of the presidential race, which will be a rematch against the former Republican president. donald trumpif you were told to do so because of a medical condition.
Biden was asked if there was anything that would make him reconsider his bid for a second term in the White House during an interview with BET News’ Ed Gordon.
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“If I had any medical condition that came up, if someone, if doctors came to me and said, you have this problem and that problem,” the president said.
Concerns about Biden’s health have increased since his poor performance. in a television debate with Mr. Trumpthe republican candidate.
The president has since insisted that he is “firmly committed” to staying in the race.
The White House said last week that Biden are not being treated for Parkinson’s disease following reports that a specialist doctor had visited the US president several times over the past year.
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