Americanswers! Will Democrats force Joe Biden out? Who could take his place?
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4.3 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 July 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
After last week’s presidential debate, Justin and Marianna discuss whether President Biden is likely to step down – or be forced to stand down – as the Democratic nominee. Who might replace him? Or if he stays, what are his chances of winning the election against Donald Trump? Justin and Marianna also answer questions on how the media covered Trump’s performance in the debate, and why many of his false claims were not fact checked. GUESTS: Miles Taylor, former chief of staff at Department for Homeland Security HOSTS: Justin Webb, Radio 4 presenter Marianna Spring, Disinformation & Social Media Correspondent GET IN TOUCH: * Join our online community: https://discord.gg/qSrxqNcmRB * Send us a message or voice note via WhatsApp to +44 330 123 9480 * Email Americast@bbc.co.uk * Or use #Americast US Election Unspun: Sign up for Anthony’s new BBC newsletter: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-68093155 This episode was made by Purvee Pattni and Catherine Fusillo. The technical producer was Jack Graysmark. The series producer is Purvee Pattni. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Right, just a quick note from Justin before we start, because there has been a huge development |
| 0:09.2 | since we recorded this episode. |
| 0:11.0 | It doesn't matter because the episode itself is about |
| 0:13.2 | something else that's very important and it's answering your questions but the |
| 0:16.5 | Supreme Court has handed down this extraordinary decision with regard to |
| 0:20.8 | presidential immunity. Donald Trump had gone to the court and said that he ought to be immune from the things he'd done while he was president and obviously January the 6th |
| 0:28.0 | very much looms in people's minds and the court has actually said with its conservative majority, well yes possibly in some |
| 0:35.8 | cases you would be and they've thrown it back to the lower courts and that is a huge |
| 0:40.0 | victory for Donald Trump. It probably stymies the January the 6th case, the federal |
| 0:45.2 | case and certainly means that it's going to have to be rethought. And it's also obviously |
| 0:50.7 | been the subject of immense argument within the court because |
| 0:53.7 | Sonia Sotomayor, one of the three liberal justices left on the court, has issued her own |
| 1:00.6 | suggestion that this is an affront to democracy, she's even suggested that possibly in the future |
| 1:06.4 | of President would be able to assassinate a rival and claim immunity for what he or she did so it's a huge deal but it is also a huge |
| 1:17.3 | deal what happens to Joe Biden and the debate and the fallout and that's what we're |
| 1:22.4 | answering questions about in this |
| 1:24.1 | episode. |
| 1:30.7 | Hello it's Justin in the worldwide headquarters of AmeriCaste in London, England and it is |
| 1:36.3 | Mariana aka misinformation back from my UK election undercover votering to join America |
| 1:43.4 | again which is very exciting. |
| 1:45.0 | That's great to have you back and Miles is going to join us as well. |
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