Biden's TV debate disaster - will he now be replaced?
The News Agents - USA
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4.3 • 719 Ratings
🗓️ 28 June 2024
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
This was a TV debate unlike any other. Excruciating doesn’t even cover it.
Whilst Trump confidently lied his way through the facts, Biden barely reached the end of his sentences without meandering off into a far distant phrase.
It was painful to watch and it will raise serious questions now amongst senior Democrats. Can they, must they replace Joe Biden as their presidential candidate?
And if so who will be the first top figure to say it out loud?
We take you through the most painful moments of the night and the conversations after the debate and ask if the voters will forgive this more easily - or if it’s time to take drastic action to save the Democratic Party from disaster in November.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents USA Podcast is brought to you by HSBC, UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.7 | This is a global player original podcast. What's happened, I've changed it in a way that now |
| 0:15.9 | you're in a situation where there are 40% fewer people coming across the border illegally. That's better than |
| 0:22.0 | when he left office. And I'm going to continue to move until we get the total ban on the total |
| 0:28.9 | initiative relative to what we're going to do with more border patrol and more asylum officers. |
| 0:35.1 | President Trump? I really don't know what he said at the end of that sentence. |
| 0:38.7 | I don't think he knows what he said either. |
| 0:40.5 | And that wasn't even the worst bit of Joe Biden in a horror story of a night. |
| 0:47.9 | Because Joe Biden had it all to prove, and he didn't. |
| 0:52.7 | It was awful. |
| 0:54.7 | If you haven't heard it yet, we're going to take you through what happened step by step |
| 0:59.1 | and also tell you about the kind of conversations now going on within the Democratic |
| 1:04.6 | campaign camps about what they should do next. |
| 1:09.7 | And, spoiler alert, there is nothing that they are not considering |
| 1:15.1 | today. Welcome to the Newsagents USA. |
| 1:24.4 | It's John. It's Emily. And I thought that we would be watching that debate through our fingers. |
| 1:33.1 | What I didn't realize is we'd want to put most of our fingers in our ears as well. It was really, |
| 1:39.2 | really painful. And I say that as somebody who has been so resistant to this narrative that Biden is too old, that he can't do the job. |
| 1:47.9 | I've looked at his record. I've looked at what he's done in government. I've looked at the kind of legislation that he has inconceivably managed to pass and thought it was all overblown. |
| 1:57.8 | Last night, I think I have to admit, I swapped over to the other side. |
| 2:02.5 | Well, everything. I mean, everything about it. From the moment he shuffled, and I use the word |
| 2:07.4 | advisedly, onto the stage and up to the lectern, to a rather thin, raspy voice that is just |
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