Biden Out, Harris In, GOP Still Thinks They'll Win

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Mike Pesca

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🗓️ 22 July 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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After party leaders, donors, and voters made clear that they didn't want Joe Biden running, this past weekend, the President bowed out. Vice President Kamala Harris is there to take the mantle. Benjamin Wallace-Wells, staff writer for The New Yorker, joins us to talk about the factors that contributed to Biden's decision, the opportunities for Harris to make inroads, and if other Democratic politicians really wanted the job. Plus, how Harris can credibly answer the charge that she's a failed "Border Czar." And does Harris' path to the nomination undercut the charge that Trump is the one who is a threat to democracy? Produced by Joel Patterson and Corey Wara Email us at [email protected] To advertise on the show, visit: https://advertisecast.com/TheGist Subscribe to The Gist Subscribe: https://subscribe.mikepesca.com/ Follow Mikes Substack at: Pesca Profundities | Mike Pesca | Substack Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's Monday, July 22nd, 2024 from Peach Fish Productions.
0:07.7	It's the gist I'm Mike Pesca.
0:09.3	The old Switcheroo.
0:11.8	For years I've wondered, will there ever be a new Switcheroo and we just saw it
0:16.7	the Democrats did it. They switched out the old for the new.
0:19.9	Kamala Harris will now be their standard bearer an example of the new switcharoo.
0:25.5	I do wonder, however, how do you keep, if you're the Democrats, how do you keep making the case
0:29.8	that Donald Trump is something of a death knell for democracy when the Democratic candidate
0:35.8	didn't win one vote in the nominating process, wasn't the choice of a single voter this year,
0:40.8	nor the winner of a single delegate in 2020. I know the Republicans will raise
0:45.4	this because Stephen Miller has been at maximum intensity.
0:50.3	They held a primary. People, they had ballots, they filled out circles, they went to the voting booths, they spent money on advertisements.
0:58.0	And as President Trump said, the Republican Party
1:03.0	spent tens of millions of dollars running against Joe Biden.
1:06.4	Now they just woke up one morning and said never mind we're cancelling the
1:10.0	entire primary.
1:11.8	We're getting rid of our candidate and we're pretending the election has never even
1:15.0	happened and we're going to let donors
1:16.7	handpick a new nominee?
1:18.7	Well, it wasn't just donors.
1:21.5	It was everyone in the Democratic firm and also she is Vice President that is the
1:26.8	kind of logical next person up situation. But even if Miller makes the point designed to appeal mostly to an already Democrat suspicious audience,
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