Bernstein: Biden Realizes Candidacy’s Current State Is Unsustainable
Laura Coates Live
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🗓️ 20 July 2024
⏱️ 44 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Well, you know, I've been in Washington, D.C. |
| 0:09.0 | Well, you know, I've been in Washington, D.C. long enough to know what leaked conversations do mean. |
| 0:14.8 | So apparently it means President Biden didn't take someone's hint. |
| 0:18.9 | He didn't take the private or gentle nudging to perhaps step aside. |
| 0:22.5 | And so now the sharpest of elbows |
| 0:25.3 | are out swinging in public. |
| 0:26.8 | And I do mean swinging. |
| 0:29.0 | Look at this. |
| 0:30.0 | We are up to what, 34 plus Democrats who want them off the ticket. |
| 0:34.6 | 12 alone came out today. |
| 0:37.3 | To paraphrase the movie Jaws, |
| 0:39.5 | we're going to need a bigger graphic if this comes up and keeps up. |
| 0:43.5 | And by all accounts, it will keep up. |
| 0:46.8 | Which is why this next bit of reporting is very important. |
| 0:50.3 | So Carl Bernstein tonight said that Biden is now recognizing that it is quote |
| 0:54.4 | very unlikely that his candidacy can be sustained unquote. Now doesn't mean that I've |
| 1:00.4 | heard something substantial yet. I'm not sure what that really means if it's definitive or not, |
| 1:05.4 | but it sounds like he sees some kind of writing on a wall, |
| 1:09.6 | but he's either not reading it, or to him, |
| 1:11.7 | it spells out the word malarkey. |
| 1:14.7 | Biden's campaign is saying and they're saying his head nauseum. |
| 1:17.6 | He's in this race still. |
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