US President and Democratic candidate Joe Biden has acknowledged that he would abandon his candidacy for the November elections due to a medical problem. Biden said this in an interview on Black Entertainment Television in which he insisted that he made “a serious mistake” in the first presidential debate on June 27 that Trump dominated against a weak and diffuse Biden.

“[Lo haría] “If a doctor told me that I have this or that problem…”, said the American president in reference to whether would consider dropping out of the presidential race due to a medical condition.

In this way, Biden has changed his speech since, at the time, he said that he would only abandon his race for the White House if God asked him to.

Biden has also repeatedly maintained that none of his doctors have told him he has any serious illness.

During the interview, the Democrat also admitted that he entered the election campaign as a “transitional candidate.” “I thought I would be able to move on and hand this off to someone else, but I didn’t anticipate the country’s situation being so divided. Frankly, I think the only thing that comes with age is a little more wisdom, and I’ve shown that I know how things are done,” Biden said.

Biden digs in his heels despite pressure

Since the fateful debate, alarm bells have been ringing in the Democratic Party and a movement has emerged within the party itself to find another candidate to succeed Biden.

Still, the president has insisted that will not retire and he will continue to be the candidate for the White House. Just a few days ago, the 81-year-old president argued at a rally in Detroit that he was not going “anywhere.”

“I am the nominee”“I’m not going anywhere,” Biden said on Friday as he resumed his campaign in Michigan, a key state for Democrats in the race against the Republican tycoon. “You chose me as a candidate, no one else. Not the press, not the pundits, not the donors. You, the voters. You decided, no one else, and I’m not going anywhere,” said the 81-year-old president, immersed in an internal crisis and increasingly under fire.

And it is that His lapses have not stopped growing in recent weeks. In one week, Biden confused Zelensky with Putin and called his own number two, Kamala Harris, “Vice President Trump.” All this, in a context in which more than 15 Democratic Party legislators have already publicly called for him to withdraw from the electoral race, in addition to dozens of political analysts and influential figures from the media and the entertainment world.

The president, however, shows no signs of giving up and has entrenched himself in defending his candidacy, assuring that He is the only one who can beat Trump at the polls on November 5. Now, in this interview, Biden has acknowledged that he would only withdraw from his candidacy if “health problems” arise.