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Meet the Press NOW — July 2

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🗓️ 2 July 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

President Biden’s campaign insists it will stay in the race, even as Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas) became the first Democratic lawmaker publicly called on the president to drop out of the 2024 election. Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) joins Meet the Press NOW to discuss what the Biden campaign should do to reassure Democrats ahead of November. The judge in Trump’s criminal hush money case postponed his sentencing until September.

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0:00.0

If it's Tuesday, President Biden in full damage control as he battles intensifying concerns about his fitness for office, amid new calls for him to withdraw and growing Democratic panic about stopping a newly emboldened

0:15.6

Donald Trump in November. Plus the former president and his lawyers seize on the Supreme

0:21.2

Court's expansive view of presidential immunity as the judge in his criminal

0:25.5

hush money case agrees to delay his sentencing until September to hear arguments about

0:31.0

potentially throwing out his conviction.

0:33.6

And fueled by warming waters and rapid intensification,

0:37.5

Hurricane barrel churns in the Caribbean and heads towards Jamaica

0:41.6

as a powerful category four storm.

0:44.4

It is the earliest major hurricane ever

0:47.2

to form in the Atlantic. Hi there, welcome to meet the press now, I'm Ryan Nobles in Washington.

1:02.8

And the first Democratic lawmaker is now publicly calling

1:06.6

on President Biden to withdraw from the presidential race.

1:09.8

As the Biden campaign faces growing pressure

1:12.2

and criticism following that disastrous debate

1:14.8

performance last week, and as a Supreme Court ruling has intensified fears about the states

1:20.0

this November.

1:21.4

This afternoon, Congressman Lloyd Doggett, who's known on Capitol Hill as an ardent

1:25.4

Biden supporter, certainly not a flamethrower, put out a statement saying the

1:29.2

president has failed to reassure voters that he can beat Trump.

1:33.6

Congressman Doggin also cited yesterday's Supreme Court decision on presidential immunity

1:38.6

saying he believes that Trump victory could usher America into a quote dark authoritarian era.

1:45.5

Doggett writes in part, President Biden saved our democracy by delivering us from Trump in

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