Joe Biden withdraws from the presidential race, endorses Kamala Harris
The Daily Article
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🗓️ 22 July 2024
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President Biden announced yesterday that he is withdrawing from the 2024 presidential race and endorsed Vice President Harris. The chaos of our day is God’s invitation to trust and experience his providence so fully that we become catalysts for the moral and spiritual renewal our culture needs so desperately. Today, we discuss how we can do this most effectively.
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| 0:00.0 | Greetings. It's Monday, July the 22nd, 2024. Welcome to the Daily Article podcast. I'm Chris Elkins, |
| 0:08.7 | narrating today's article written by Denison Forum co-founder and CEO, Dr. Jim Denison. |
| 0:15.7 | President Joe Biden announced yesterday that he is withdrawing from the 2024 presidential race. In a subsequent |
| 0:22.7 | post, he stated, I want to offer my full support and endorsement for Kamala Harris to be the nominee |
| 0:28.7 | of our party this year. Mr. Biden's monumental decisions were made closer to November than any |
| 0:34.5 | previous incumbent who sought re-election and then left the race. |
| 0:38.4 | What do they say about the health and future of our democracy and our nation? |
| 0:42.0 | On one hand, we could see these announcements as a subversion of democracy. |
| 0:46.4 | Mr. Biden earned his party's nomination through their electoral process. |
| 0:50.3 | Those who pressured him to step down had no formal or legal power to remove him from the ticket. |
| 0:55.7 | We could view their actions as unfair to him to the delegates elected to nominate him and to the larger process. |
| 1:02.5 | On the other hand, we could see this as democracy at work. |
| 1:06.3 | Leaders and donors in the Democratic Party continued to make their voices and concerns heard after the |
| 1:11.9 | primaries were over. Mr. Biden then came to his decision in the belief that it was, quote, |
| 1:17.3 | in the best interests of my party and the country. End quote. Our founders built our nation |
| 1:22.6 | on the declaration that all men are created equal, including presidents and political leaders. This does not mean |
| 1:29.3 | that humans are worthy of power, but that none can be trusted with unaccountable authority. |
| 1:35.0 | James Madison observed in Federalist No. 51, if men were angels, no government would be necessary. |
| 1:41.2 | If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls |
| 1:45.9 | on government would be necessary. In quotes, as Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan notes, |
| 1:52.2 | we are living in big history. Reflect for a moment on the crises we have faced in recent years, |
| 1:58.3 | the worst pandemic in a century, mass riots in our streets, |
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