Daily Take: Should the Democratic Party Reconsider Joe Biden as their 2024 Presidential Candidate?
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 28 June 2024
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This election is too important to indulge one man's desire to hang onto his office. It literally will define the future of democracy as a form of governance both in America and worldwide…
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| 0:00.0 | Should the Democratic Party reconsider Joe Biden as their 2024 presidential candidate? |
| 0:06.0 | Last night I ghost wrote this for the editorial board of Raw Story at their request. |
| 0:11.0 | They made a few changes and expanded it somewhat as you can |
| 0:13.8 | see on their site. This morning I would add that Trump told over 30 |
| 0:17.6 | massive and consequential lies last night, again demonstrating his lack of |
| 0:22.1 | fitness for the presidency and CNN's |
| 0:24.1 | inability to honestly moderate a debate. It's doubtful though that anybody in the |
| 0:28.5 | Republican Party will be discussing replacing him today. There are also massive possible downsides and upsides to |
| 0:34.9 | replacing President Biden on the ticket at this late date. The upside is that the |
| 0:39.0 | publicity and national curiosity around the new candidate would swamp Trump and his BS and reinvigorate |
| 0:45.2 | the campaign. The downside is that the possible infighting and the possibility |
| 0:49.6 | of the Democratic Party picking a weak candidate, including the vice president, could |
| 0:53.8 | produce the opposite effect and hand the election to Trump. Here's what I wrote for |
| 0:58.6 | Raw story. When your president, your main job is to make good decisions and keep the country |
| 1:03.1 | running smoothly and safely, both domestically and internationally. |
| 1:07.0 | When you're running for president as a candidate, though your job is quite different. |
| 1:10.5 | Your new job is to be the best communicator in the nation. |
| 1:13.0 | And President Biden, as great and brilliant as he's been on policy, failed in that in last night's debate, |
| 1:18.0 | and has thus made America incapable of trusting him to lead this country forward in the 21st century. |
| 1:24.0 | It's vital to acknowledge that President Biden led the country through an extraordinarily difficult time in American history. |
| 1:31.0 | He inherited the worst mess from a predecessor since |
| 1:34.1 | FDR took over when Republican President Hoover crashed the country into the |
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