Can a Defiant Joe Biden Stay in the 2024 Race?

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

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🗓️ 8 July 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Despite calls from Democrats that he withdraw as a candidate for re-election, President Biden says he's committed to remaining and is appealing to his base of black and union voters to back him against what he calls the media and donor "elites" in the party. Will that be enough to fight off the critics? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:18.0	From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.
0:27.0	Can Joe Biden survive as the Democratic nominee for president for a second term.
0:34.0	That's the question after an extraordinary week of turmoil inside the Democratic Party
0:40.0	after the president's awful performance in a debate with Donald Trump on June 27th.
0:45.8	The president seems determined to plow ahead even as more Democrats on Capitol Hill
0:50.8	say he ought to stand down for the good of the party and open the way for a new
0:56.3	nominee. All I can say is we're making history these days fast and furious every day of
1:02.2	the week politically and this is where we are now fascinating turn of events.
1:08.0	Welcome, I'm Paul Geego here with the Potomac Watch podcast for the Wall Street Journal opinion pages and I'm here with
1:14.4	Kyle Peterson and Bill McGurn. What an amazing week it has been. Democrats
1:19.8	debating behind closed doors, thousand points of view, sometimes debating in private, sometimes
1:26.0	in public, about whether their president can still stand for re-election.
1:30.3	Let's listen to David Axelrod.
1:32.4	He's a former advisor to Barack Obama
1:34.6	offer his view on where the campaign stands. There are certain immutable facts of
1:39.2	life and those were painfully obvious on that debate stage and the president just doesn't seem to come to he hasn't come to grips with it
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