President Joe Biden announced on Sunday that he will not seek reelection in November, bowing to pressure from high-ranking Democrats and media figures who fear he will be unable to defeat former President Donald Trump.

In a letter addressed to the public, Biden said that while it was his intention to run for reelection, “I believe it is in the best interest of my party and the country for me to stand down and to focus solely on fulfilling my duties as President for the remainder of my term.”

Biden has faced pressure to bow out since his disastrous debate performance in June, which even his allies say raised serious concerns about his ability to discharge the duty of the office. Biden’s decision to drop out of the race came after CNN reported that Biden had softened his stance toward the idea after resisting calls to even consider it.

“He’s being receptive. Not as defiant as he is publicly,” a source told CNN. “He’s gone from saying, ‘Kamala can’t win,’ to ‘Do you think Kamala can win?’ It’s still unclear where he’s going to land but seems to be listening.”

CNN’s report followed an interview that Biden did with BET in which he said he would be open to the idea of stepping down if he was diagnosed with a “medical condition.” Hours after the interview was released, Biden was diagnosed with COVID and withdrew from the campaign trail.

The 81-year-old president has struggled in the weeks following the first presidential debate to quiet voices within his party who are pushing for his ouster as they worry he will drag down Democrat candidates across the country.

Biden told Democrat governors in the days immediately following the debate that his 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. schedule was taking too much out of him and that he needed to sleep more, work less, and not have events after 8 p.m.

First Lady Jill Biden and Biden’s son, convicted felon and crack cocaine addict Hunter Biden, have reportedly taken more control over the president since the debate, believing that some in the White House cannot be trusted and are sabotaging him. Hunter Biden has effectively become Biden’s gatekeeper and controls who gets to see his father.

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Some of Biden’s aides were reportedly “beat[ing] the s*** out of any Democrat member who raises questions about Biden’s mental fitness for office.

During his first major interview following the debate, Biden refused to commit to taking a neurological exam when pressed by ABC News host George Stephanopoulos.

When asked if he would consider dropping out, Biden responded: “I mean, if the Lord Almighty came down and said, ‘Joe, get outta the race,’ I’d get outta the race. The Lord Almighty’s not comin’ down.”

Stephanopoulos was asked on the street following the interview if he thought Biden should step down. He responded: “I don’t think he can serve four more years.”

The White House confirmed earlier this month that Biden has been evaluated by a Parkinson’s disease expert during his yearly physical exams after numerous doctors stated publicly that they believe Biden has the disease.

During another major interview, Biden repeatedly exploded at with NBC News’s Lester Holt for asking him basic questions about his fitness, declaring “I have command of my faculties.”

In an interview with “360 With Speedy,” Biden said that Obama asked him to be vice president in 2020 when Trump was in office.

Biden said, “But I didn’t plan on running because when I, in 2020, when I, my, when Barack asked me to be vice president, I, uh, I, I joined him, which was a great honor and, uh, but after that I became a professor at the University of Pennsylvania.”

Obama tapped Biden for the vice presidency in 2008. Biden served two terms, leaving office in January 2017.

Dr. Tom Pitts, a Democrat who is a quadruple board-certified neurologist based in New York City, told NBC News during a television interview that it was obvious to him that Biden had Parkinson’s disease.

“You notice when he turns it’s kind of end-block turning; it’s not a quick turn,” Pitts said. “That’s one of the hallmarks of Parkinson’s; it’s rigidity and bradykinesia, slow movement. And he has that hallmark, especially with the low voice they said was a cold; hypophonia, small monotone voice like this over time is a hallmark of Parkinsonism.”

“Shuffling gait, we call that ‘little steps,'” he noted. “Loss of arm swing from the rigidity; when we walk we have a nice cadence, he doesn’t really swing his arms, and end-block turning, meaning he kind of pivots around his foot.”

“I could have diagnosed him from across the mall.”