Inside Biden's Decision

The Assignment with Audie Cornish

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News Commentary, News, Politics

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🗓️ 22 July 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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After three weeks of battling an intense debate from within his own party, President Joe Biden made a surprise announcement on Sunday, ending his re-election campaign. Shortly after, he endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee. Audie talks with Phil Mattingly, CNN’s Chief Domestic Correspondent. He takes us inside Biden’s historic decision and tells us what to expect from here. CNN: Inside Biden’s unprecedented exit from the presidential race Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Economist has been championing progress for almost 200 years,
0:05.6	providing independent journalism for independent thinking.
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0:27.6	the economist. Ever since Joe Biden's disastrous debate performance on June 27th, the calls for the president to end his reelection campaign
0:39.6	had gotten louder and louder until suddenly on Saturday the dam finally broke.
0:45.5	Major breaking news. President Joe Biden has just announced that he is dropping out of the
0:50.8	2024 presidential race in a stunning letter that was just released moments ago by his campaign.
0:56.6	Now shortly after his announcement, Biden threw his support behind Vice President Kamala Harris to be the Democratic nominee.
1:03.1	I'm Audie Cornish. This is the assignment. And in this historic moment, I have Phil Mattingly here to help us understand what the heck just happened. What happens now?
1:12.8	Oh, boy. Phil is chief domestic correspondent at CNN. He's covered Biden for years. Welcome back, Phil.
1:18.2	Thanks for having me. So it's hard to believe that it was just 25 days ago that CNN held a debate.
1:24.9	And at the time, I understand it was the White House or it was Joe Biden's
1:31.2	campaign that was like into this idea of having the debate. Totally. Why? What did they think would
1:37.9	happen? They thought that it was the, they had a debate earlier than they had initially planned
1:43.5	and that historically it happens. And they thought it was their moment to reset a debate earlier than they had initially planned and that historically it happens.
1:45.1	And they thought it was their moment to reset a race that they knew they were losing.
1:49.0	And they thought on a message perspective, the contrast and the focusing America on Donald Trump,
1:55.0	the same candidate who they all kicked out of office or 7 million plus voters voted for more voted for Joe Biden in 2020,
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