The president of the United States, holed up in a beach house hundreds of miles from the White House, was just deposed by tweet. There was no speech or press conference. There was no photo or video of Joe Biden making any kind of announcement. Instead, early in the afternoon on Sunday, Joe Biden’s Twitter account — an account we know that he does not control, and likely doesn’t even know how to use — posted a letter, bearing what appeared to be Biden’s digital signature, declaring that he won’t seek re-election.
About a half an hour later, Biden’s Twitter account posted a separate message endorsing Kamala Harris as Biden’s successor — without providing any indication as to why the endorsement wasn’t included in the letter. Biden’s chief of staff informed Cabinet officials of the news. At no point on Sunday did we see or hear Biden himself.
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