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🗓️ 21 July 2024
⏱️ 92 minutes
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0:00.0 | Well, there's just too much happening to fit it all into just one hour. |
0:04.3 | So we are here with two hours of live special coverage. |
0:08.2 | And increasingly unhinged Donald Trump is back on the trail as President Biden plans |
0:12.5 | his own return while battling back new calls to step aside. |
0:16.5 | As chairman of the Senate's campaign arm, Senator Gary Peters is in charge of getting Democrats |
0:20.7 | and tough races elected. And he's coming up first. Plus, Colorado Governor Jared Polis is chair |
0:26.5 | of the National Governors Association, and I'm going to get his take on the debate over the president's |
0:31.2 | future. And later, as Trump's new running mate introduces himself to the country, I'm going to |
0:36.4 | talk to J.D. Vance's |
0:37.6 | law school roommate, who is sounding the alarm about the senator's rise. |
0:50.3 | Okay. One of the big things I've learned from working on three presidential campaigns is that a day sometimes feels like an entire lifetime in politics. |
1:00.8 | I mean, just take this week. It was just over a week ago when there was an assassination attempt on a former president and current Republican nominee just a week ago. |
1:09.8 | And since then, just in the last week, |
1:12.0 | President Biden was diagnosed with COVID. Judge Alien Cannon throughout Trump's classified |
1:16.1 | documents case. The dark and at times bizarre Republican convention was held in Milwaukee. |
1:21.9 | Trump picked honorary tech bro, Ohio Senator J.D. Vance as his running mate, and a growing number |
1:27.1 | of Democratic leaders in |
1:28.3 | Washington called for Joe Biden to step aside. So yeah, this week was kind of crazy by all accounts. |
1:35.3 | I mean, it's definitely unpredictable and probably fell to all of you, like at times it was |
1:39.7 | disorienting and even enraging. But if you cut through all of that anger and confusion, which I know |
1:45.8 | there is plenty of, you may be feeling it right now. This week also provided a level of clarity. |
1:51.6 | And stick with me here. Maybe even some confidence about this race. And here's why. When Donald |
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