August 19, 2024

In Newsweek's coverage of the opening night of the Democratic National Convention, Harris Prof. William Howell was quoted commenting on President Biden's dropping out of the 2024 presidential race. 

"Biden only stepped down when every pathway forward for him was closed," William Howell, the University of Chicago's Sydney Stein Professor in American Politics, told Newsweek. "In this extraordinary moment of transition, then, his relationship to the Democratic Party – and with it, his historical legacy — remains complicated."