 His campaign was planning fundraisers and events and setting up travel over the next few weeks. But even as Biden was publicly dug in and insisting he was staying in the race, he was quietly reflecting on the disaster the past few weeks and the past three years of his presidency on the scope of his half-century career in politics. In the end, it was the president's decision alone, and he made it quietly from his home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.