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Democratic strategist warns changing presidential nominee 'is not cost-free'

PBS News Hour - Segments

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4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Three of President Biden's top political advisers met with Senate Democrats behind closed doors to address concerns over his political future. Some lawmakers expressed skepticism before and after the meeting. Geoff Bennett spoke with Democratic strategist Philippe Reines for more analysis of Biden's standing in the race. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

For more analysis of President Biden's upcoming press conference and his political standing,

0:05.6

we're joined now by Democratic strategist and former advisor to Hillary Clinton.

0:09.7

Philippe Rainis.

0:10.5

Philippe, thanks so much for being here.

0:11.8

Thank you. What if anything can President

0:14.2

Biden do in this press conference tonight to quell concerns and end these calls for

0:19.6

him to exit the race? Honestly, I would say nothing because everyone is so dug in

0:26.7

that there's confirmation bias and that if you want him to have to leave

0:32.1

you're gonna find plenty of things in what he says

0:34.8

and how he says it and how he looks to walk away with that. Before the press

0:40.2

conference even started he He accidentally called President

0:42.8

Eulensky President Putin. So you have half of Washington already lighting up

0:47.4

their phones. But he caught himself and he caught himself. Yes, I don't think

0:50.9

it's a big deal. I mean the fact that he even knows world leaders I mean most Americans wouldn't catch that but this is how Washington as you know

0:57.8

works the issue here is why are we all sitting around with bated breath watching a press conference

1:05.2

for a NATO summit? If Joe Biden is going to salvage this, which he absolutely can. He's got to go out and do his job

1:15.6

without there being these huge moments in time that can

1:25.0

only go bad. He needs to go out there on a regular basis.

1:28.0

He needs to go out there on a regular basis,

1:31.0

maybe just go to the hamburger store with Vice President Harris, with the

1:34.8

Raybans on, have someone yell a question at him, or be in the Rose Garden and

1:39.2

sign something. It needs to be regular, not okay. We're doing this big interview with George Stephanopoulos, this big interview with Lester Holt, this big press conference.

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