Did Biden’s NATO presser save his candidacy?

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🗓️ 12 July 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

This past week, President Biden ended the NATO three-day summit with a solo press conference. Since the first presidential debate, Americans have questioned his ability to fulfill another term in the White House. Journalists brought up this issue again to Biden during today’s press conference — did he smooth over concerns?

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0:00.0	Welcome to left right and center. This is David Green, your host. I just want to put sort of our
0:07.2	current political moment in some context here. It has been more than 50 years since we saw a sitting US president step aside and opt
0:16.1	out of running for re-election.
0:17.4	That would be LBJ in 1968.
0:20.6	And this is what a growing number of Democrats have been calling on President
0:24.2	Biden to do. And so far President Biden has not budged. He has had a bunch of
0:29.5	hurdles to jump over culminating in a press conference where he'd have to do what he had not
0:35.1	done since his disastrous debate against Donald Trump.
0:38.9	That would be face questions, which he did for about an hour and he answered them freestyle.
0:44.0	He was asked repeatedly about whether he is staying in the race and whether he had confidence
0:48.8	in Vice President Kamala Harris if she were to become the nominee. Let's listen.
0:53.3	You earlier explained confidence in your vice president.
0:57.3	Yes.
0:58.3	If your team came back and showed you data that she would fare better
1:01.7	against former president Donald Trump.
1:03.7	Would you reconsider your decision to stay in the race?
1:07.5	No, unless they came back and said,
1:09.6	there's no way you can win.
1:14.0	Me.
1:17.0	No one's saying that. No pulse is then.
1:18.0	But then went to the whisper there, which we have heard him used sometimes before
1:22.0	in speeches and press conferences.
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