Biden quits US presidential race - what happens next?
This Is Why
Sky News
4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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On the Sky News Daily, Niall Paterson talks to US Correspondent Martha Kelner about the timing of Biden's departure and to Scarlett Maguire from JL Partners about what the polls are saying.
Producer: Emma Rae Woodhouse
Editor: Philly Beaumont
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| 1:05.8 | Joe Biden is out. The US president has not so much fallen on his sword as he's been gently guided onto it |
| 1:13.1 | and will no longer be the Democratic candidate facing Donald Trump come November. Instead, |
| 1:18.6 | he's announced his support for his vice president, Kamala Harris. Later, we will look at the |
| 1:24.2 | polls. Was it simply the numbers that did for Joe Biden? But we begin with our US |
| 1:30.2 | correspondent, Martha Kellner. What was the tipping point for Joe Biden? I mean, it wasn't that |
| 1:35.4 | long ago that he was saying he was the only one who could beat Donald Trump. Yeah, he's had this |
| 1:40.5 | entrenched position, hasn't he, Neil, for the past sort of three weeks, really, |
| 1:44.7 | since that debate. He said, nothing's changed. I still believe I'm the man to beat Donald Trump. |
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