Biden Digs In
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🗓️ 9 July 2024
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary
President Biden stays on the offensive, calling into his favorite morning show to excoriate the naysayers, rallying support among old allies, and vowing to everyone who will listen that he’s staying the race no matter what. Jon, Lovett, and Tommy lay out President Biden’s strategy and size up whether it’s working so far. And as the fight over Biden’s future moves to Capitol Hill, Lovett talks with Rep. Ro Khanna—a key Biden surrogate—about which way House members will go, and what Biden could be doing better.
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| 0:00.0 | The Welcome to Pod Save America. I'm John Favreau. I'm John Lovett. |
| 0:23.0 | I'm Tommy Vittor. |
| 0:24.0 | Happy fourth and welcome back. |
| 0:25.0 | We're back. You guys managed to unplug for the holiday weekend? |
| 0:28.4 | Stop thinking about politics? |
| 0:30.6 | I know you're joking. I really did try. I really did try I really did try no I see every once a while I go into the to the box of screams and I'm like there you are with your megaphone |
| 0:38.8 | Screaming with everybody else |
| 0:40.9 | Screaming with a bunch of blue checkmarks calling us traitors and funny fonts |
| 0:44.8 | good stuff good stuff out there on Elon's internet. |
| 0:48.2 | Yeah what about you? Yeah sure yeah no I will say I was not I was not too offline while I was in Maine for the week, but it was a nice place to be staring at my phone the whole time. |
| 1:01.0 | That's what I thought. And I did, as Emily likes to say, you know, saw all of my |
| 1:06.0 | in-laws live there, all their friends, and she's like, you've basically done the pod a couple |
| 1:10.6 | times a day for everyone here in Bitterford-Bool because it's all anyone could talk about. |
| 1:17.3 | I don't know if you guys got this. |
| 1:18.3 | I've never, that we were, we've been worried for a long time about attention on this race. |
| 1:24.2 | People's attention is now focused on this race. |
| 1:26.6 | Oh yeah, big time. |
| 1:27.6 | In a way that I have not seen in a long time. |
| 1:29.2 | And look, we'll get to some of our critiques, |
| 1:30.6 | and we have a few, but in fairness. |
| 1:32.0 | Which is in other circumstances right |
| 1:33.6 | in fairness the Biden strategy of using the debate to draw more attention to the |
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