Americanswers! Is it time for Kamala?
Americast
BBC
4.3 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Joe Biden has issued a warning to his critics to challenge him at the upcoming Democratic National Convention. Anthony and Miles answer criticism on whether the BBC focus too much on the president’s cognitive abilities.
And with momentum building behind the idea of Kamala Harris taking over from Biden, we answer your questions on why she has been largely absent from the campaign so far.
HOST: Anthony Zurcher, North America Correspondent
GUEST: Miles Taylor, former chief of staff at Department for Homeland Security
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hey Miles, how's it going? |
| 0:05.7 | You have a good 4th of July? |
| 0:07.2 | Anthony, I had a great 4th of July, and you know, it's one of those holidays |
| 0:11.5 | that you're supposed to be able to dial out and not |
| 0:13.8 | focus on work but a little tough to not be thinking about all the things that we will talk |
| 0:18.7 | about today over that 4th of July a symbolic day to be br ruminating on everything that's happening in American politics. |
| 0:25.2 | I know I had barbecue I watched fireworks I played little golf I tried to unplug but that was not |
| 0:29.9 | particularly successful but we have a lot of your questions to get to. Before we do |
| 0:34.5 | that though we do have some breaking news here that is just coming through the |
| 0:38.1 | wires. Joe Biden has sent a letter to the members of Congress who are coming |
| 0:41.6 | back to Washington here today for their |
| 0:44.3 | session and he said that he is firmly committed to staying in the race and that he |
| 0:50.0 | wanted to say clearly and unequivocally he would not be running again if he did not absolutely believe that he was |
| 0:56.0 | the best person to beat Donald Trump so by all indications Joe Biden despite |
| 1:00.4 | the past week despite his debate, is going to press on. |
| 1:04.6 | All right, our first question is from Jeff, he has emailed this. |
| 1:07.2 | Hello, AmeriCast team. |
| 1:08.6 | I am becoming increasingly annoyed about AmeriCasts and the general BBC's coverage of the US presidential |
| 1:14.8 | race. |
| 1:15.8 | I hear constantly about Joe Biden's fitness to remain in office after the end of the year. |
| 1:20.7 | You talk about Biden's cognitive abilities partly because of his poor |
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