So Max there's this question I keep getting from people about Joe Biden.

Oh, they're asking for skin care tips, right? How do you get that youthful glow?

You know, not quite, not quite, okay? Folks around me keep wondering what's going on with his campaign and why the

Democrats won't just push him off the ticket and choose somebody else.

Yeah, I hear that a lot too. People seem to have this sense that like,

somewhere deep in the bowels of the Democratic Party headquarters,

there's this back room where the party leaders

all need and make big decisions.

Yes, the room where it happens, okay?

Because technically, right?

Biden isn't the nominee yet.

The party decides that at the Democratic National Convention next month.

Right, so why not just decide to give the presidential nomination to someone else?

Now what you and I know is that there is no back room deep in the Democratic headquarters.

There is no cabal of party leaders who can pick another nominee.

Right, but here's the thing, and I think a lot of people don't know this, there actually

did use to be that back room.

There used to be that cabal who could decide to just pull a problematic nominee off the ticket like that.

Okay, so how long ago are we talking?

Wooden teeth and dust gigs, the advent of colored television, what are we actually pretty recent like reason enough that it existed within Biden's career

But the parties decided to dismantle those backrooms they dissolve the kibals okay? Well we got to call. Okay, get the cabals on the phone and tell them they got work to do.

I'm Max Fisher and I'm Trevell, filling in for Aaron Ryan.

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