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WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

Joe Biden Ends His Re-Election Bid as Kamala Harris Takes Center Stage

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Wall Street Journal

News, Society & Culture

4.22.8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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President Biden finally bends to pressure from fellow Democrats and ends his bid for a second term, endorsing his Vice President to succeed him. Why are Democrats uniting so quickly behind her, and how will the Trump campaign respond? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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slash Wall Street. From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal

0:21.3

this is Potomac Watch.

0:25.5

President Biden drops his bid to run for re-election and endorses Vice President Kamala

0:31.0

Harris.

0:32.0

Democrats quickly move to endorse the Vice President and our possible opponents seem

0:36.2

to be rallying behind her one by one.

0:38.8

On today's edition of Potomac Watch, we'll talk about all the weekend's historic turn of events. Tom Harris brings to the race strengths and weaknesses and how Donald Trump and the Republicans will

0:56.1

respond. Welcome, I'm Paul Gigo, editor of the editorial pages of the Wall Street Journal,

1:01.4

here with my colleagues Kim Strassle and Kyle Peterson.

1:05.0

So just not enough news around folks.

1:07.7

So boring, Paul.

1:08.7

Just, you know, don't know what to write about these days.

1:12.6

Well, it did finally happen.

1:14.2

Joe Biden recognized, I think, the reality

1:16.9

that he was headed for defeat against Donald Trump,

1:20.2

and that his fellow Democrats were pushing him out of the race and were likely to ratchet up the

1:24.7

press or in the coming days and withdraw. As the old line has it, the pain was inevitable,

1:31.1

but the suffering was optional and he chose to reduce the suffering by finally getting out and he called it in the best interests of the country in his statement.

1:41.3

Let's listen to Kamala Harris,

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