The President of the United States (US), Joe Biden, announced this Sunday that He withdrew from the race for re-election as a Democratic candidate for the White House. To this end, he published a letter who wrote accompanied by only two peoplewhile the rest of his team found out a minute before it went public.

Now, the American press is telling details of how this withdrawal was planned, which has put American campaign turned upside down. Beyond the pressures within his party that they began to see after their Face to face with Donald Trumphave been the surveys the ones that caused Biden to throw in the towel.

According to some media reports, at four o’clock on Saturday afternoon, Biden was calling from his holiday home in Delaware to two key people in the decision. They are: Steve Ricchettione of his closest advisors, and Mike Donilonhis chief strategist and speechwriter.

Both of them appeared there and told the president that he had nothing to do with the presidential race, since in Polls in the six swing states were deflating. Although, also in others like Virginia and New Mexico, where the Democrats had not planned to expend enormous efforts.

But pressures within its ranks also continued to increase. Among the most critical was the former Secretary of State, Nancy PelosiIn fact, although Biden had made it clear that he was maintaining his candidacy, she did not consider that decision a done deal: “It is up to the president to decide whether he will run”he said a few days ago. Pelosi had even given him two options: withdrawal for by good or by bad means.

So, with Biden’s intention to make the withdrawal seem like it was his doing, it was decided to draft the letter on Saturday afternoon, although it was not until Sunday morning that it was finalised. These last few loose ends were being ironed out just as one of his campaign managers, Cedric Richmond, said on television that Biden had “made a decision”: that of being a candidate and president.

As for the leading candidate to succeed the Democrat, Vice President Kamala Harrisit is known that she was informed of the decision to withdraw on Sunday morning. As mentioned above, only a minute before the letter was issued, the rest of her advisors were notified, while most Democrats found out through social media.