Biden campaign insists he will remain Democrat presidential candidate for US election

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US President Joe Biden will return to the campaign trail next week following his COVID diagnosis, the Democrat campaign chair has said.

Mr Biden was forced to pull out of a speech after contracting COVID-19 this week, as pressure on him to step aside from the race to become president ramped up.

Mr Biden has insisted he is not dropping out of the presidential race, despite fears his age could see him lose to Donald Trump in November.

The White House said the president was experiencing mild symptoms, including “general malaise” from the infection and returned to his home in Delaware from Las Vegas to self-isolate.

“He is absolutely in it,” Biden campaign chairwoman Jen O’Malley Dillon told MSNBC in an interview.

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