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Somebody's Gotta Win with Tara Palmeri

How Biden’s Inner Circle Protected Him, With Alex Thompson

Somebody's Gotta Win with Tara Palmeri

The Ringer

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4.41.8K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Tara is joined by national political correspondent for Axios, Alex Thompson, to discuss the concerns buzzing amongst Democratic lawmakers in regards to Joe Biden’s disastrous debate performance against Donald Trump last Thursday. They examine the aides around Biden that aggressively shield him from embarrassing media coverage, speculate on what it would take for the president to drop out of the race, and talk about the blowback political journalists have faced in the past when trying to report on Biden’s age. For more of Tara’s reporting, please sign up for her newsletter, 'The Best and the Brightest,' at puck.news/tarapalmeri and use the discount code TARA20. Host: Tara Palmeri Guest: Alex Thompson Producer: Chris Sutton Production Supervision: Conor Nevins Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

If you're a fan of the inner workings of Hollywood, then check out my podcast, The Town, on the Ringer Podcast Network.

0:05.5

My name is Matt Bellany. I'm founding partner at Puck and the writer of the What I'm Hearing newsletter.

0:10.0

And with my show, The Town, I bring you the inside conversation about money and power in

0:14.2

Hollywood. Every week we've got three short episodes featuring real Hollywood insiders

0:18.6

to tell you what people in town are actually talking about. We'll cover everything from why your favorite show was

0:23.9

canceled overnight. Which streamer is on the brink of collapse and which

0:27.4

executives on the hot seat. Disney, Netflix, who's up, down, and who will never

0:31.9

eat lunch in this town again?

0:33.0

Follow the town on Spotify or wherever you get your podcast. Hi, I'm Tara Paul Mary. I'm Puck Senior Political Correspondent, and this is somebody's got to win.

1:00.0

I am dropping in from vacation again. I know I said I'd be off until July 8th, but alas, wild times we are in right now.

1:08.8

So I was lucky enough to get Alex Thompson on the line from Axios.

1:14.8

He has been way ahead of the Biden age story.

1:19.3

He has broken stories like on the fact that he has to change his shoes. This is a while back that now we know, you know,

1:25.5

baden wears soft healed shoes and he has to use the short stairs to get on Air Force One. I mean, it's just for a while Alex has really been

1:35.2

pointing out to the public that he has a lot of difficulties and that we aren't seeing that because we haven't gotten a lot of access to

1:44.9

Biden in the press, the public, and Alex has some more great reporting after this debate that

1:51.6

has the entire party talking about whether Biden is even

1:55.6

capable of running for re-election and frankly running the country. So Alex

2:00.8

thanks for coming on the show.

2:02.8

But first I want to ask, can we officially retire the word bedwetters?

2:06.3

I sure hope so.

2:07.3

I don't think the Biden White House will do it,

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