Stuff reports:
US President Joe Biden called Vice President Kamala Harris on Sunday (local time) to tell her directly.
He spoke one-on-one with Jeff Zients, his White House chief of staff, and Jen O’Malley Dillon, his campaign chair.
Zients then convened Biden’s White House and campaign senior staff for a 1.45pm call, so that Biden could tell those who had worked closest with him he was abandoning his dream of a second term.
As Biden spoke on that call, a letter announcing his intentions went live online. The chief of staff followed up with Zoom calls for the Cabinet and those in the White House with the rank of assistant to the president.
“There is so much more to do – and as President Biden says, ‘there is nothing America can’t do – when we do it together’,” Zients wrote the entire White House team at 2.26pm.
