Could Biden Be Replaced?
What A Day
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🗓️ 1 July 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
The Biden campaign spent the weekend trying to contain the damage from the president’s devastating performance in Thursday night’s presidential debate. Biden acknowledged his lackluster showing during a campaign event in North Carolina on Friday. Still, it didn’t do much to end the sheer panic that has overtaken the Democratic Party and quiet the calls for him to leave the race ahead of the Democratic National Convention. Colby Itkowitz, national reporter for The Washington Post, explains what would happen if Biden were to step aside before the DNC in August.
Meanwhile, the Supreme Court kicked Democrats while they were down Friday morning. The justices issued a flurry of opinions limiting the ways government agencies can set regulations, allowing city officials to remove homeless encampments, and undermining a key charge used by prosecutors in hundreds of cases against January 6 rioters. The court is expected to wrap up its term today, meaning we expect a decision in the most significant case of the year — whether former President Donald Trump is immune from prosecution for his role in the insurrection.
And in headlines: France’s far-right political party won big in the country’s parliamentary elections Sunday, the U.S. dismantled the floating pier that the military built for aid delivery in Gaza, and Steve Bannon must turn himself into prison today after the Supreme Court rejected his appeal to delay his sentence.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, July 1st. I'm Travel Anderson. |
| 0:06.0 | And I'm Josie Duffy Rice, and this is What a Day. |
| 0:11.0 | The show that is getting dizzy from all the Democrats spend over the weekend. |
| 0:15.1 | Yes, in the words of singer-songwriter, Vivian Green, I'm on an emotional roller coaster, Josie. |
| 0:21.6 | I'm in a tornado. I'm on a tornado. |
| 0:23.4 | I am in a tornado. |
| 0:25.0 | On today's show, on today's show, the Supreme Court is releasing its last round of decisions today, |
| 0:34.5 | but we will tell you which ones you may have missed from last week. Plus, Steve Bannon |
| 0:38.5 | heads to jail. But first, the Biden campaign spent the weekend trying to contain the damage from the president's |
| 0:45.2 | performance in Thursday's debate. Biden even acknowledged his devastating showing during |
| 0:50.6 | a campaign event in North Carolina on Friday. |
| 0:53.4 | I don't walk as easy as I used to. |
| 0:55.5 | I don't speak as smoothly as I used to. |
| 0:58.0 | I don't debate as well as I used to. |
| 1:01.2 | Well, I know what I do know. do know how to tell the truth. |
| 1:07.0 | But that didn't do too much to end the sheer panic that has overtaken the Democratic Party and really anyone who |
| 1:14.9 | does not want to see former President Donald Trump return to office. On Friday |
| 1:19.8 | the New York Times editorial board and more than half a dozen of the paper's |
| 1:23.7 | columnists called on Biden to step aside. So did a handful of columnists at |
| 1:29.0 | the Atlantic as well as MS NBC host Joe Scarborough, even our very own Pod Save America guys |
| 1:36.0 | said it was time for Democrats to seriously consider the merits of an open |
| 1:40.2 | convention at the DNC in mid-August. |
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