# President Biden Dropping Out of Race **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Tags:** kamala-harris\ **Created:** [July 21, 2024, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-biden-dropping-out-of-race/1004540 "2024-07-21T18:05:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 30
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2025, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-biden-dropping-out-of-race/1004540/583 "2025-05-17T02:47:35Z")
I know a woman who, around age 60, was diagnosed with a fairly rare breast cancer that she was told was aggressive and likely to come back, but 10+ years later, it hasn’t. She did have mastectomy, chemo, and radiation so it got nailed from every direction available at the time. Several years later, her 88-year-old mother was diagnosed with the same type of cancer (and it’s not a type that is considered genetic) and she opted to have a mastectomy and no further treatment, and her doctors agreed that this was the right thing for her. The mother died about a year later from an unrelated cause. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2025, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-biden-dropping-out-of-race/1004540/584 "2025-05-17T02:50:37Z")
This is less about Biden in 2024 than it is about Kamala running in 2028. They’re laying their groundwork already, team. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2025, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-biden-dropping-out-of-race/1004540/585 "2025-05-17T02:52:23Z")
Moderating: Time to start a new thread. If it doesn’t relate to Joe Biden dropping out of the race in 2024, it doesn’t belong in this one. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2025, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-biden-dropping-out-of-race/1004540/586 "2025-05-18T21:27:28Z")
[https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/biden-diagnosed-with-metastatic-prostate-cancer-92b493c0?st=Y5EmmB](https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/biden-diagnosed-with-metastatic-prostate-cancer-92b493c0?st=Y5EmmB) But it can be bad. And i guess in this case it is. 😢 No one-box. So I’ll summarize that he was diagnosed with an aggressive prostate cancer that has spread to his bones. But it’s hormone-sensitive, so it is probably treatable. “He and his family are discussing…” ---
**Author:** ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2025, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-biden-dropping-out-of-race/1004540/587 "2025-05-18T22:27:53Z")
If Biden had stayed in the race and had won, would he have resigned with this announcement? Or would there be days of breathless speculation about the 25th Amendment? ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2025, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-biden-dropping-out-of-race/1004540/588 "2025-05-18T22:38:40Z")
5/18 update: And I was right. I wish him and his family only the best in the difficult days to come. p.s. I remember when Frank Zappa was diagnosed with terminal prostate cancer in the early 1990s, and it was considered inoperable upon diagnosis. Granted, the treatments have advanced by leaps and bounds in the decades since. He was just 53 when he died. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2025, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-biden-dropping-out-of-race/1004540/589 "2025-05-18T22:40:52Z")
Moderating: Please take the discussion regarding Joe Biden’s diagnosis to a new thread. This thread was to discuss Biden dropping out of the 2024 race, which is now long past. As such, this is closed. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2025, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-biden-dropping-out-of-race/1004540/590 "2025-05-18T22:41:11Z")
And here is the thread: > [@Joe Biden diagnosed with Prostate Cancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-biden-diagnosed-with-prostate-cancer/1018513/8): > > The first part is medically inaccurate and the second part is absurd, unfounded speculation. The whole post is unnecessarily harsh, in my view. My late mother received the very best medical care well into her 90s, and from a public health care system, yet. Surely a former president deserves no less. But the metastasis is likely very bad news. The doctors can and will do everything possible, as they must by the oath they swore, but what is possible may be limited. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-biden-dropping-out-of-race/1004540.md?page=29)