Biden Withdraws from the Presidential Race!
Americast
BBC
4.3 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
And says it's "in the best interest of my party and the country".
Americast and Newscast collaborate for another episode. Adam, Justin, Sarah and Marianna come together to talk about what's happened and what it could all mean for the US election.
HOSTS: * Justin Webb, Radio 4 presenter * Sarah Smith, North America Editor * Marianna Spring, disinformation and social media correspondent * Adam Fleming, Newscast host
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This episode was made by Rufus Gray. The technical producer was Hannah Montgomery. The Americast series producer is Purvee Pattni. The Newscast assistant editor is Chris Gray. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Joe Biden is standing down. |
| 0:07.7 | He writes to his fellow Americans, |
| 0:10.4 | over the past three and a half years, |
| 0:11.8 | we have made great progress as a nation, |
| 0:14.8 | but he says in the key passage, it has been the greatest honor of my life to serve as your |
| 0:19.6 | president and while it has been my intention to seek re-election, I believe it is in the best interest of my party and the country for me to stand down and to focus solely on fulfilling my duties as president for the remainder of my term. |
| 0:34.0 | I will, he says, speak to the nation later in the week in more detail about my decision. |
| 0:40.0 | What a decision and what a question now what happens next? |
| 0:45.0 | Welcome to America. |
| 0:47.0 | Americast. |
| 0:50.0 | Americast from BBC News. |
| 0:52.0 | Let me start off with two words made. America. I can chew and walk them at the same time. |
| 1:02.6 | There is no indication of aliens or extraterrestrial activity. |
| 1:07.0 | We will fight the woke in education. |
| 1:09.4 | We will fight the woke and the businesses. |
| 1:11.2 | We will never ever surrender to the woke mob. |
| 1:14.6 | Nobody should have to go to jail for smoking weed. |
| 1:17.0 | Brian. |
| 1:18.0 | Why are you guys tired of covering this? this. It's just in at close to midnight in the worldwide headquarters of America |
| 1:31.6 | in London, England. |
| 1:32.8 | Hello, it's Sarah here in the Bureau in Washington, D.C. |
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