7/22/24: Biden drops out, race to replace, Trump melts down

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David Pakman

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🗓️ 22 July 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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-- On the Show: -- President Joe Biden announces that he is pulling out of the 2024 Presidential race and will not run for re-election, opening the door for VP Kamala Harris or another Democrat to take his place and unleashing chaos into the presidential election -- Donald Trump has a complete and total meltdown over President Joe Biden stepping aside in the 2024 race -- Political donations pour in for Kamala Harris in the hours after President Biden announces he will not seek re-election in 2024 -- Republicans will now demand and try to force President Joe Biden to resign altogether after his announcement that he will not run for re-election -- With Joe Biden stepping aside, Donald Trump is now the oldest presidential nominee in American history, leading some to ask whether he is too old -- Fox News propagandist Sean Hannity tries to attack Kamala Harris, but doesn't really have anything to attack her over -- Donald Trump holds a rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan that goes horribly wrong -- Republican Senator Ron Johnson suggests to Fox host Maria Bartiromo that there was a "second shooter" in Donald Trump's assassination attempt -- Eric Trump wildly claims without evidence that Democrats were behind the assassination attempt of his father in which a Republican shot a Republican -- Voicemail caller is stunned by how quickly voters and the media narrative has moved on from Joe Biden after his announcement about not running in 2024 -- On the Bonus Show: Exploring Kamala Harris' potential vice-presidential picks, White House pushes rent cap for housing, Hunter Biden drops lawsuit against Fox News, much more... 💪 Athletic Greens is offering FREE year-supply of Vitamin D at https://athleticgreens.com/pakman 👍 Buy the FÜM Journey Pack and use code PAKMAN for a FREE GIFT at https://tryfum.com/pakman ⚠️ Try Ground News and get 40% OFF the Vantage plan at https://ground.news/pakman 💻 Get Private Internet Access for 83% OFF + 4 months free at https://www.piavpn.com/David -- Become a Member: https://www.davidpakman.com/membership -- Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/davidpakmanshow -- TDPS Subreddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/thedavidpakmanshow -- Pakman Discord: https://www.davidpakman.com/discord -- David on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/davidpakmanshow -- Leave a Voicemail: (219)-2DAVIDP Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome everybody. You know we almost didn't do a show today. They were just I was looking at the news and didn't do a show today. They were just I was looking at the news and didn't see anything to talk
0:14.6	about so we got together and we said do we really need a show today and I
0:19.2	figured I'll do one but there's really not that much to talk about, so it'll be very boring.
0:24.6	No, of course, in the last 24 hours we had some of the most notable historic moment, really,
0:31.5	in the last decades, least of American political history.
0:36.0	President Joe Biden has announced he will not seek re-election and will not accept the nomination for president of the Democratic Party.
0:46.7	This came after weeks, but really months, but most acutely weeks of speculation and positioning and jockeying and so many different things
0:58.8	including significant kind of
1:03.2	the Balkanization of the Democratic Party at least online and at least as far as I was hearing from people
1:07.7	but announced on X some call it an excretion some call it a tweet where Joe Biden said yesterday my fellow Democrats I have decided not to accept the nomination and to focus all my energies on my duties as president for the remainder of my term.
1:24.8	My very first decision as the party nominee in 2020 was to pick Kamala Harris as my VP.
1:30.4	And it's the best, it's been the best decision I've made today. I want to offer my full support and endorsement for Kamala to be the nominee of our party this year. Democrats it's time to come together and beat Trump, let's do this.
1:43.5	The White House and Biden also putting out a more formal letter where he says,
1:48.4	my fellow Americans over the past three and a half years, we have made great progress
1:51.9	as a nation. that's true.
1:53.0	Today America has the strongest economy in the world.
1:56.0	We've made historic investments in rebuilding our nation, lowering prescription drug costs for
2:01.0	seniors, expanding affordable health care to a record number of and done without you the American people. Together we overcame a once in a century pandemic
2:15.3	and the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.
2:18.2	We've protected and preserved democracy
2:20.1	and revitalized and strengthened our alliances around the world.
2:24.1	It has been a great honor, he says, and while it has been my intention to seek re-election,
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