Beschloss & Costa: Biden's Fall, Kamala's Rise & A Whole New Race

Impolitic with John Heilemann

Audacy | Puck

News, Politics

4.8 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

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John goes deep on Joe Biden’s historic, campaign-upending decision to exit the presidential race with NBC News presidential historian and author of nine books on the presidency, Michael Beschloss, and Robert Costa, CBS News chief election correspondent and co-author (with Bob Woodward) of the New York Times No. 1 best-seller, “Peril." The three friends discuss the internal and external forces that compelled Biden to bow out; his decision to endorse his understudy, Kamala Harris; how the game-changing turn of events has fundamentally rebooted the presidential race; and how Donald Trump is likely to react to being deprived of his preferred foil, Biden, and instead having to face Harris (bottom line: unhappily). To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:16.7	say, all of a sudden have gone from yawn to holy shit! after three solid weeks in which you thought you'd seen it all
1:27.2	a catastrophic debate triggering a calamitous crisis in Joe Biden's campaign
1:30.7	an assassin's bullet grazing the ear of Donald J Trump, a GOP
1:35.4	convention filled with happy-pappy magga-loving fight-fight-fight chanting
1:38.9	insanely confident delegates bowing down to a Trump who seemed to have convinced much of the
1:44.8	national media that he'd been transformed into a kindler, gentler, grand kid
1:49.2	toting, national unity espousing, new man until on the final night of that convention,
1:55.3	Trump delivered a rambling, disjointed, immigrant bashing, falsehood festooned acceptance
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