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Biden Withdraws from the Presidential Race!

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.46.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

US President Joe Biden withdraws from the presidential race after weeks of mounting pressure from Democrats - and backs Vice-President Kamala Harris to be the democratic nominee.

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Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Adam Fleming, Justin Webb, Sarah Smith and Marianna Spring. It was made by Rufus Gray. The technical producer was Hannah Montgomery. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The editor is Sam Bonham.

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.

0:04.7

Hello, it's just before 11 PM on Sunday night and we're doing a breaking newscast episode

0:10.4

because Joe Biden has announced he is withdrawing from the US presidential race.

0:16.0

He published a statement on social media and it's quite long and he talks about his record

0:20.0

but then the key bit is when he says,

0:22.0

it's been the greatest honor of my life to serve as your president.

0:25.0

And while it's been my intention to seek re-election, I believe it's in the best interest of my party and the country for me to stand down and to focus solely on fulfilling my duties as

0:34.4

president for the remainder of my term. So if ever an event merited an emergency

0:41.1

breaking newscast it is this but I'm not sat here in the studio

0:45.0

alone late a night because Justin from America cast is here hello Justin

0:48.2

hello Justin. Hello. Should we get on with actually what's our second newscast

0:51.6

America's collaboration of the last 72 hours?

0:54.7

Someone's put on X, this fantastic.

0:56.6

Have you ever seen Zulu, the film?

0:58.1

Yes.

0:58.8

Okay, they've got the main character from Zulu looking to the camera and saying

1:04.8

It's emergency podcast sir there are a thousand thousand I have actually seen that mean but I'm slightly ashamed of it

1:10.5

Anyway, right we will dig into everything that's led to this and

1:13.7

what it means on this episode. Newscast. Newscast from the BBC. The

1:19.1

exit poll is predicting a labor landslide.

1:22.6

We did it!

1:23.4

And before you know it, you have a bright future behind you.

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