Democrats back Harris after Biden ends re-election campaign

Global News Podcast

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Society & Culture, Daily News, News, Documentary

4.2 • 7.8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Major Democrat politicians and donors - including the Clintons - support Vice-President Kamala Harris as the party's new presidential nominee. Also: soldiers deployed as student protests continue to ramp up in Bangladesh, and the BBC confronts a convicted South African who killed dozens of black men during apartheid.

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0:00.0	This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.
0:04.0	I'm Bernardette Keo and at 0900 GMT on Monday the 22nd of July,
0:12.0	these are our main stories.
0:14.0	US Vice President Carmelah Harris seeks to gain the party's presidential nomination
0:19.0	after Joe Biden withdraws.
0:21.0	But can she win against Donald Trump? We hear from polling experts and those
0:26.2	who've worked closely with her. And the international reaction to a future without
0:30.8	Mr Biden in charge, we hear from Ukraine and Israel.
0:38.0	Also in this podcast,
0:39.6	these strikes help them to get more popularity locally and also pitches them as the
0:45.3	vanguard of the Muslim, the Arab nation because they're the only people actually
0:49.0	fighting the Israelis in Gaza. What might be the consequences of the drone strike on Israel by the Huthu movement in Yemen?
1:00.0	After Joe Biden's announcement that he was ending his campaign for re-election,
1:05.4	many leading Democrats in the United States have followed his lead by backing the
1:10.0	Vice President, Carmelah Harris, as the party's new presidential nominee for November's election.
1:16.4	Mr Biden's decision, with only 106 days to go until that poll takes place, came after weeks of concern at the 81 year old's
1:24.8	faltering performance in a televised debate opposite Donald Trump. There were
1:29.2	more public embarrassments as he got names mixed up, prompting calls for him to go from Democrats and more importantly
1:36.6	from party donors.
1:38.6	In a post on social media, Mr Biden insisted he was going to stay in post as president until the election
1:45.2	and he also endorsed his Vice President Carmelah Harris to stand against Mr Trump.
1:50.3	Our North America correspondent David Willis looks back at the events leading up to the decision to quit the race.
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