 Because the reason he would be stepping down as the nominee is that he has dementia. That he's not mentally up to the task. But if he's not mentally up to the task of running for president, he's certainly not mentally up to the task of being president. So he wasn't going to make this statement after a NATO summit and a press conference. This would be a statement he would make from the Oval Office. This would be very serious. A president resigning the office and then Kamala would become president. It just wasn't going to happen.