American Battleground: How ‘brat summer’ set up Kamala Harris’ remarkable run

“It has been the greatest honor of my life to serve as your president.”

Joe Biden is out.

More than five decades after he won a county council seat in Wilmington, he is less than two hours away at his Delaware beach home when he gives up his fight to hold the Oval Office. His decision is made on a weekend spent with his family and closest advisers, and in such secrecy even people close to him are telling CNN’s MJ Lee just hours earlier there is no way he will quit. They were not deceiving her, she will conclude, they just didn’t know.

“The inner circle that was always really small got even smaller,” she says of the endgame.