--- title: Watch Live: President Joe Biden Delivers Oval Office Address description: President Joe Biden holds an Oval Office address on his decision to drop his bid for reelection and to support Vice President Kamala Harris. canonical: https://time.com/7003047/watch-biden-address-after-dropping-out/ author: TIME Video article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2024-07-24T23:57:11.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-24T18:01:02.387Z article:section: Politics og:title: Watch: Biden Delivers Oval Office Address og:description: President Biden holds an Oval Office address on his decision to drop his bid for reelection. og:url: https://time.com/7003047/watch-biden-address-after-dropping-out/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt894da4a6edc49189/698a5936457a52a975d6a91a/GettyImages-2161483616.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 4000 og:image:height: 2667 og:image:alt: President Biden Delivers Oval Office Address To Nation og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch: Biden Delivers Oval Office Address twitter:description: President Biden holds an Oval Office address on his decision to drop his bid for reelection. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt894da4a6edc49189/698a5936457a52a975d6a91a/GettyImages-2161483616.jpg?branch=production ---  # Watch Live: President Joe Biden Delivers Oval Office Address After Ending His Bid for Re-Election by [TIME Video](https://time.com/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Jul 24, 2024 11:57 PM UTC  US President Joe Biden delivers a prime-time address to the nation in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Sunday, July 14, 2024\. The stakes in this election are high and it's time to cool down the political rhetoric, President Joe Biden said in an address from Oval Office. Photographer: Erin Schaff/The New York Times/Bloomberg via Getty Images US President Joe Biden delivers a prime-time address to the nation in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Sunday, July 14, 2024\. The stakes in this election are high and it's time to cool down the political rhetoric, President Joe Biden said in an address from Oval Office. Photographer: Erin Schaff/The New York Times/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesBloomberg via Getty Images—© 2024 Bloomberg Finance LP by [TIME Video](https://time.com/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Jul 24, 2024 11:57 PM UTC President Joe Biden explains in an Oval Office address his decision to drop his bid for reelection and to throw his support behind Vice President Kamala Harris. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/7003047/watch-biden-address-after-dropping-out/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/7003047/watch-biden-address-after-dropping-out/"},"headline":"Watch Live: President Joe Biden Delivers Oval Office Address After Ending His Bid for Re-Election","datePublished":"2024-07-24T23:57:11.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-24T18:01:02.387Z","description":"President Joe Biden holds an Oval Office address on his decision to drop his bid for reelection and to support Vice President Kamala Harris.","url":"https://time.com/7003047/watch-biden-address-after-dropping-out/","keywords":["elections","News","video"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt894da4a6edc49189/698a5936457a52a975d6a91a/GettyImages-2161483616.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Video","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-video/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt894da4a6edc49189/698a5936457a52a975d6a91a/GettyImages-2161483616.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"President Biden Delivers Oval Office Address To Nation","caption":"President Biden Delivers Oval Office Address To Nation","creditText":"Bloomberg via Getty Images—© 2024 Bloomberg Finance LP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/elections/","name":"elections"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/7003047/watch-biden-address-after-dropping-out/","name":"Watch Live: President Joe Biden Delivers Oval Office Address After Ending His Bid for Re-Election"}}]}] ```