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The Michael Steele Podcast

How Obama and Pelosi Betrayed Biden in 2024 (Quick Take)

The Michael Steele Podcast

The Bulwark

Politics, Government, History, News

4.83.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Michael Steele speaks with Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes, authors of the new book "Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House." They discuss why Democratic leadership didn't tell Biden not to run in 2024, how Obama and Nancy Pelosi tried to get Biden to drop out of the race and Biden's refusal to endorse Kamala Harris.

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0:55.9

Yeah.

0:56.5

You see the president engaging Republican, putting them back on the hills, scoring political points, real time.

1:03.0

Social security, there was that battle to give in.

1:05.7

Yes, beautifully done.

1:07.4

Yeah.

1:08.5

That's the moment you go to the president and say, sir, you're not running in 24.

1:13.6

Yeah.

1:14.6

Yeah.

1:15.6

Yeah.

1:16.6

If I'm the party chairman, that's, I pull, I go to the senior leadership and say, this was

1:24.6

wonderful.

1:25.6

But this, this, we know, we know the background here. We know the underlying

1:30.8

truths of, you know, getting up for one game, right? When you've got 24 more in front of you.

1:38.7

Right.

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