Screens display news reports at the Nasdaq MarketSite yesterday in Times Square in New York. Photo: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Biden's exit announcement came together in a late-night writing session, according to reporting from Axios' Hans Nichols and the N.Y. Times.
Yesterday: Biden worked on his letter exiting the race with top aides Steve Ricchetti, Annie Tomasini and Mike Donilon at his Rehoboth Beach, Del., home.
Biden's family and closest aides learned that he was leaving.
Today: Biden, in separate calls, told VP Harris, his White House Chief of Staff Jeff Zients and his campaign manager Jen O'Malley Dillon shortly ahead of the public announcement.
Biden told his other top staffers one minute before his tweet.
Zients convened the Cabinet for a virtual session shortly after the announcement to share the president's decision.
