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Hello and welcome to coffee house shots

of spectators daily politics podcast. I'm Katie. Hello and Welcome to Coffey House shots as Spectators Daily Politics

podcast. I'm Katie Balls and I'm joined by Fraser Nelson and James Heel.

So just before 7 PM on Sunday night we had the news that many were expecting

that Joe Biden has

dropped out of the race. Fraser can you just bring us up to speed on how Joe

Biden made this announcement and what we can expect now? I think it's been

inevitable for some time, even though Biden himself was kind of resisting it.

But it was clear to the democratic machine that he wasn't going to work as a candidate.

But it seems what they have been doing instead is stitching it up for Camilla Harris.

So when Biden dropped out, it was just a question of when, not whether, most of the publications already had their pre-writes, as we call them, where the stories were all ready to go,

just the button pressed, waiting for when.

What we didn't expect was that Biden and Bill Clinton would immediately ruin behind Camler Harris,

as would lots of American donors.

Now in the US the donors have got huge influence so if they all think it should be Camila then it should be Camila.

And when Gavin Newsom, the governor of California, to my mind the only real

sort of credible alternative. When he backs Camler Harris, then it's over. So I think the debate

in Britain hasn't quite caught up with this here you're reading lots of

runners and riders who could succeed by it and I think we have the answer to that so

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