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🗓️ 9 July 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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0:00.0 | Well, today, President Joe Biden came out fighting, and all started with a letter to congressional |
0:14.5 | Democrats that landed in their inboxes before 9 a.m., which included these lines, quote, |
0:20.0 | I want you to know that despite all the speculation |
0:22.9 | in the press and elsewhere, I am firmly committed to staying in this race, to running this race |
0:27.7 | to the end, and to beating Donald Trump. The question of how to move forward has been well |
0:33.4 | aired for over a week now, and it's time for it to end. Now, less than an hour after that letter |
0:39.0 | was made public, the president was on the phone with our friends at Morning Joe. This is part of the |
0:43.1 | interview. The bottom line here is that we're not going anywhere. I am not going anywhere. |
0:50.7 | I wouldn't be running if I didn't absolutely believe that I am the best candidate to |
0:55.5 | beat Donald Trump in 2024. I'm not going to explain any more about what I should or shouldn't |
1:02.7 | do. I am running. I'm getting so frustrated by the elites. Now, I'm not talking about you guys, |
1:08.3 | but about the elites in the party who they know so much more. |
1:13.0 | But if any of these guys don't think I should run against me. |
1:16.7 | Go ahead. Announce the president. Challenge me at the convention. |
1:21.7 | Challenge me at the convention. I mean, if this is a stare down, and in many ways, it kind of is right now. |
1:28.1 | Joe Biden definitely isn't blinking. |
1:30.3 | The president spent the day yesterday campaigning across the critical battleground state of |
1:34.3 | Pennsylvania. |
1:35.1 | He attended service at one of Philadelphia's biggest black churches. |
1:38.6 | He spoke at a union headquarters in Harrisburg. |
1:40.7 | He visited a local campaign office. |
1:42.9 | And he met with the state's governor |
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