Joe Biden claimed it took him so long to drop out of the 2024 presidential race because he was being “successful” in office. The former president also said it there would have been no difference if he had withdrawn sooner, implying that Kamala Harris would have lost anyway. When asked why he did not end his 2024 campaign earlier, he told BBC Radio 4's Today program: “I don't think it would have mattered.” “It's a question lots of people ask you, Mr. President – did you leave it too late? Should you have withdrawn earlier, given someone else a bigger chance?” BBC journalist Nick Robinson asked. “We left at a time when we had a good candidate,” Biden said of Harris in the interview that aired yesterday. “She was fully funded.” “And what happened was, what we had set out to do, no one thought we could do,” Biden added. “We had become so successful in our agenda, it was hard to say, 'I'm gonna stop now.’”