The president of USA, Joe Bidentested positive for covid-19 and canceled his participation on Wednesday in the annual event of a powerful Latino organization in Las Vegas, where he had resumed his campaign for reelection.
“I feel good”, Biden, 81, told reporters as he boarded Air Force One, which will transport him to his home in Delaware.
The official announcement was released minutes after Janet Murguía, president of Unidos US, announced that the president was canceling his participation in an annual event of the largest national civil rights organization for Latinos, an important demographic group in his bid for the White House.
“He shared his disappointment at not being able to come this afternoon,” said Janet Murguía, president of Unidos US, to the more than a thousand people waiting for the president at the MGM Convention Center in Las Vegas.
“The president was at many events, as we know, and he tested positive for covid,” added Murguía, causing a sigh from the audience, which dispersed minutes later.
Biden “He is vaccinated and boosted, and suffers from mild symptoms,” dKarine Jean-Pierre, spokesperson for the Presidency, said in the statement.
The president presented on Wednesday afternoon “upper respiratory symptoms, including rhinorrhea (runny nose) and nonproductive cough, with malaise”, detailed the medical report included in the statement. Biden will return to his residence in Delaware, the White House reported, “where he will isolate himself and continue with his responsibilities.”
Medical problem
Biden was back on track with a campaign agenda in Las Vegas following the attempted assassination of his rival Donald Trump on Saturday.
On Tuesday, the president spoke at the annual conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), where he appeared forceful and called for calming the tensions in the polarized political climate in the United States.
Biden is fighting for his nomination after his questionable performance in the first debate of the campaign against Donald Trump almost a month ago, when the president showed problems expressing himself and appeared confused and tired at times.
The politician has brushed aside criticism and calls to drop out of a second term in the White House. But in an interview recorded Tuesday, he said he might reconsider his bid if he is diagnosed with a health problem.
“If I had some medical problem that came up, if someone, if the doctors came to me and said ‘you have such a problem’,” Biden told BET when asked what would make him give up on the November race, in an interview recorded Tuesday.
Nearly two-thirds of his own party want the president to step aside, according to a recent poll by the Associated Press and the NORC Research Center.
Influential Congressman Adam Schiff on Wednesday became the most influential Democrat to call on Biden to end his election bid in order to “secure his legacy.”
“A second Trump presidency will undermine the very foundations of our democracy, and I have serious doubts that the president can defeat Donald Trump in November.”Schiff told the Los Angeles Times.
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