Emergency Debate Pod: Bye Bye Biden?
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🗓️ 28 June 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Folks, it did not go well. Joe Biden definitively lost the first of two scheduled presidential debates against Donald Trump. Worse, he did so in a way that will inevitably rekindle questions about his candidacy, and not just from bloggers and columnists, but likely from some of the most influential Democrats in America.
In this free post-debate episode, Matt and Brian discuss:
* Who swapped out Biden’s PEDs for sugar pill?
* Is there anything Biden, his campaign, the White House, and leading Democrats can do to steady the ship, given the magnitude of the fuck up?
* What would the process of convincing Biden to end his campaign out of patriotic duty look like in practice.
* Would he necessarily have to hand the baton to Kamala Harris, or would he be able to anoint an entirely new ticket.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the politics podcast I'm Brian Boiler and I'm Matthew |
| 0:08.6 | Ecclaseous. This is a special post-first presidential debate episode of the politics |
| 0:15.3 | podcast. I don't think either of us are here to say it went very well for |
| 0:20.9 | Joe Biden. And I'm going to go to Portugal tomorrow. |
| 0:27.0 | So, you know, good luck to the rest of you. |
| 0:31.0 | I got my sleeve of emotional support Ritz Crackers here. |
| 0:35.4 | I'm a rod dog in this podcast. I don't have a drink. I don't have a snack. |
| 0:39.2 | You got nothing. Okay. I'm gonna I'm gonna anonymized but you know some incoming remarks I got from |
| 0:46.8 | friends and family any chance Biden will withdraw after this I know you can't |
| 0:52.4 | answer now. We had, oh, this is the first time I've |
| 0:57.6 | thought Biden is actually going to lose in the DMs, followed by another person in the group chat saying yes I agree this is |
| 1:07.0 | terrible it's so so bad I've kind of say on one level like I didn't think it was like quite as bad as some of the people by shocked |
| 1:20.6 | correspondence did because in part I've just been more pessimistic |
| 1:24.2 | about Biden's re-election odds than a lot of people that I know and I was not surprised by the fact that Trump was like on a message to the extent that some people were. |
| 1:41.0 | I think you've seen that in Trump's interviews and stuff this year, but like, |
| 1:47.3 | I don't know what to say, like, be very generous about it. The president |
| 1:52.2 | stuttered during a number of his answers |
| 1:54.5 | because he's someone who has struggled with stutters throughout his adult life as |
| 1:59.2 | we've read in various things but also as people get older, they're maybe not as good at that kind of thing. |
| 2:06.1 | But I think it's like de minimis, right? |
| 2:09.2 | Like if you just like, you know, solid baseline, it's like part of the job of being a major party presidential nominee is that you go on television and you talk extemporaneously about things and if you can't stop yourself from stuttering and like I don't know like it's a bona fide |
| 2:27.8 | part of the job and like yes I mean it's like there's |
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