Joe Biden Put America First
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🗓️ 21 July 2024
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
After weeks of internal recriminations over the Democratic Party’s crisis of confidence in Joe Biden’s ability to mount a winning campaign against Donald Trump Biden announced that he will not accept the Democratic nomination for president. In short order, he announced his endorsement of Kamala Harris, making her the runaway favorite to top the Democratic ticket.
In this emergency episode, Brian and Matt discuss:
* Whether a contested convention would do more harm than good, even if it resulted in the nomination of a more popular ticket.
* Why progressive stalwarts like Bernie Sanders and AOC stuck by Biden to the end.
* Who would make the Harris’s best running mate?
* How Harris should parry against inevitable sexist and racist attacks from the right.
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| 0:00.0 | Also I think if the other Arizona Senate seat opened up that probably the front runner on the dem side might be Phoenix Mayor Kayeago, who is Ruma Gaygo's ex-wife, and it would be very funny for them to serve in the politics podcast. I'm Brian Boiler. I'm Matthew |
| 0:25.5 | Glacius. We are doing a special free episode because earlier this afternoon |
| 0:32.3 | Sunday July 21st President Biden announced as I |
| 0:36.7 | think was becoming pretty clear this was coming but we didn't know when that he will |
| 0:41.6 | not seek the presidency in 2024. |
| 0:45.0 | He will decline the nomination. He's asked his delegates not to nominate him for |
| 0:50.4 | president. He has endorsed Kamala Harris to be the Democratic Party nominees, |
| 0:57.3 | essentially asking the delegates that had been pledged to him to nominate her instead. Already even just three hours now or so two to three hours |
| 1:07.4 | since Biden statement came in. Many influential Democrats including James Clyburn I believe. |
| 1:14.0 | Big dog at the Congressional Black Caucus has endorsed Harris too so it looks like in |
| 1:21.0 | short order this is going to it is no longer the Biden Harris |
| 1:24.1 | campaign against Donald Trump and J.D. Vance it'll be Kamala Harris and |
| 1:27.3 | whoever she picks his vice president against those two. Wait is it |
| 1:30.8 | Kamala or is it Kamala? Kamala have I been saying it? to a brand new race? Aimala. |
| 1:33.0 | Kamala? |
| 1:34.0 | Have I been saying it, Kamala? |
| 1:36.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:37.0 | Oh man, should we start from the beginning? |
| 1:39.0 | How embarrassing. |
| 1:40.0 | I just think it's a sigh. |
| 1:41.0 | Okay. |
| 1:42.0 | So you said that you thought it was becoming increasingly |
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