Biden drops out of the US presidential race and announces support for Vice-President Kamala Harris. TRANSCRIPT Find a full transcript for this episode and more programmes to help you with your English at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/learning-english-from-the-news_2024/240724 FIND BBC LEARNING ENGLISH HERE: Visit our website ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish Follow us ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/followus LIKE PODCASTS? Try some of our other popular podcasts including: ✔️ 6 Minute English ✔️ Learning English for Work ✔️ Learning English Stories They're all available by searching in your podcast app.
From BBC learning English this is learning English from the news, our podcast about the news headlines in this program.
Biden out Harris in the latest twist in the us presidential race.
Hello, I'm Neil.
And I'm Georgie.
In this program, we look at one big news story and the vocabulary and the headlines that will help you understand it.
You can find all the vocabulary and headlines from this episode as well as a worksheet on our website, bbclearningenglish.com.
So lets hear more about this story.
US President Joe Biden has ended his campaign to become president again, saying it is in the best interest of my party and the country.
President Biden was under intense pressure from other politicians in his party, thats the Democrats to quit after poor performances at recent events, such as a debate against Donald Trump in June.
Bidens Vice President Kamala Harris now has support from senior politicians to become the Democrat partys official candidate for president.
So we have a headline here that describes the first part of this story about Joe Biden quitting the presidential race.
It comes from the UK based newspaper the Daily Mail.
And the headline is Joe Biden drops out of 2024 presidential race after debate disaster.
Ok, let's hear that again.
This is from the Daily Mail and it says, Joe Biden drops out of 2024 presidential race after debate disaster.
Ok, so this headline suggests that Joe Biden left the presidential race because of this so called debate disaster.
Now, Joe Biden drops out of the race.
We're looking at drops out.
What does it mean, Georgie, to drop out of something?
Well, drop out means you stop doing something you were going to do.