Andrew Marr: Kamala Harris is "empowered and freed"
The Politics Show
The New Statesman
4.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
In a surprise social media post this weekend, Joe Biden stood down from his re-election campaign and endorsed VP Kamala Harris. Significant support has mounted in the past 48 hours for Harris, but how does this change the presidential race?
Hannah Barnes, associate editor at the New Statesman, is joined by political editor Andrew Marr to discuss the developments in the US as well as Labour's imminent challenges this summer as parliament heads for recess.
CORRECTION: Andrew Marr states that Kamala Harris has never been elected. Kamala Harris was elected District Attorney of San Francisco (2004-2011); Attorney General of California (2011-2017); and Senator, CA (2017-2021).
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| 0:00.0 | The New Statesman. |
| 0:05.0 | Hello, I'm Hannah Barnes and you're listening to the New Statesman podcast. |
| 0:09.0 | I'm joined today in the studio for the last time before parliamentary recess by the new statesman's political editor |
| 0:14.9 | Andrew Mar. And we're going to discuss the challenges and opportunities facing |
| 0:19.6 | the label government as they enter the summer break. But first we need to turn to the big news of the |
| 0:24.3 | moment I guess. Sure do. Terrible. |
| 0:27.4 | Terrible actor. The US presidential election. Decision by Joe Biden obviously over the weekend |
| 0:32.4 | to step down. We might add in there a finally and |
| 0:36.2 | the mounting support for the current VP Camler Harris who has enough support out from delegates |
| 0:42.3 | to be on the ticket. |
| 0:44.0 | Let's go through from the start and the announcement from Biden which he chose to do on |
| 0:49.4 | social media on Twitter I can't call it X, but Twitter slash X, and on Instagram. |
| 0:55.0 | Bit odd? |
| 0:56.7 | Very odd indeed and his own staffers didn't know until a few minutes before he made the announcement. |
| 1:01.2 | I mean it was a real shock in the in the system. Now I have |
| 1:05.0 | been borderline abusive including on this podcast about Biden's refusal to stand down before so I am of |
| 1:11.9 | course delighted it is the right thing to do but it |
| 1:14.8 | raises very fundamental secondary questions now being debated right across the |
| 1:19.5 | American media and across American politics like if he is not capable of standing up to Donald Trump |
| 1:26.0 | through a few interviews and on the campaign trail, |
| 1:29.0 | why is he capable of being US president for the rest of this year? |
| 1:33.2 | Really important question to which we don't have an answer. |
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