Hunter Biden thanks father in heartfelt message after withdrawing from race

President Joe Biden’s only living son, Hunter Biden, sent a heartfelt message in response to his father’s announcement that he would withdraw from the 2020 presidential race.

In recent weeks, Hunter has been one of the most vocal supporters of keeping his father in the race, even attending the president’s strategy meetings.

“My whole life I looked up to my father with admiration,” began the Biden son, who was raised by the president after a car crash killed his mother and sister in 1972. “How could he suffer so much and yet give so much of what was left of his heart to others?”

One of Biden’s greatest strengths on the campaign trail was connecting with voters on the so-called “rope line,” where he often had lengthy interactions with Americans who shared their grief and sorrow with him.

Hunter praised his father’s ability to “absorb the pain of countless ordinary Americans to whom he gave his home phone number, because he wanted them to call him when they were hurting. When their last hopes were slipping from their hands.”

While his father was isolating in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, due to a lingering COVID-19 infection, Hunter was photographed shopping across the country on the streets of Los Angeles on Saturday.

The statement represented a major reversal for the president’s son, who had joined Joe’s team at a retreat at Camp David, where a close circle of advisers urged him to hold firm.

“The President’s unconditional love has been his guiding star,” Biden wrote in his statement, both in his elected office “and as a parent.”

Hunter said he was “lucky every night to be able to tell him I love him and thank him” and that he would ask “every American to join me tonight in doing the same.”

“Thank you, Mr. President,” he continued. “I love you, Dad.”