The president of United States, Joe Bidenconfirmed this Wednesday in a new speech to the nation that will remain in office for the next six monthsuntil the end of his term. This was stated after give up re-electionless than four months before the presidential elections, in which the former president Donald Trump will likely face off against the vice president, Kamala Harris.

“For the next six months I will focus on doing my job as president.. That means I will continue to lower prices for working families and grow our economy. I will continue to defend our personal liberties and our civil rights, from the right to vote, to the right to choose. [en referencia al aborto]”, he said during his speech.

Biden has also promised that will continue to work “to end the war in Gaza” in the six months he has left in the White House. “I will continue to work to end the war in Gaza, bring home all the hostages and bring peace and security to the Middle East and end this war,” he said during his speech, in which he spoke publicly for the first time about his decision to withdraw from the campaign.

The Democratic president has also claimed that he is the first president of this century who can say that the United States is not at war anywhere in the world and that his commitment will continue to be to keep the country strong. He has also promised to continue “bringing together a coalition of nations to prevent” Russian President Vladimir Putin from “taking over” Ukraine“and work “day and night” to return to the United States “Americans who are unjustly detained around the world.”

Republican voices were calling for him to leave now

Biden has confirmed that he will complete the term while Republican voices are calling for him to They demanded that he leave officealreadya request that the White House called “ridiculous“this very Wednesday.

Already on Sunday, just after Biden announced he was ending his campaign, House Speaker Mike Johnsonurged him in a statement to step down as president. “If Joe Biden is not fit to run for President, is not in condition to serve as president. He must resign from his position immediately.“November 5 cannot come soon enough,” he stressed.

Other prominent figures in the Republican Party, such as the House Majority Leader, Steve Scaliseand the representative Elise Stefanikthe number three Republican in the chamber, have also called on Biden to resign. But Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who at 82 is a year older than Biden, has not called for the president to leave office.

In his speech on Wednesday, the first since he announced that he was withdrawing from the race for the White House for a second term, Biden defended his decision because “the defense of democracy is more important than any personal ambition“He said it was “time” to make way for younger “voices.” “I have decided that the best way forward is to pass the torch to a new generation. It is the best way to unite our nation,” he added.

His decision to drop out of the presidential race came after weeks of pressures and doubtsabout his ability to defeat Trump in the wake of his erratic performance in the televised debate of June 27which raised doubts within his party about the possibility that he could achieve victory at the polls and renew his mandate in the White House.