Good morning,

to morning, Joe on this Monday, July 1st.

This morning, we are waking up to a sea of headlines and opinion pieces

from major news organizations, former party leaders, and very loud whispers

mostly behind the scenes from present leading Democrats who say it is over.

Here's a taste of the global call for President Joe Biden to get out of the race.

The New York Times editorial board says Biden is not the man he was four years ago, calling his candidacy, quote, a reckless gamble.

Editors at Georgia's largest newspaper, the Atlanta Journal Constitution, echoed that take,

demanding the president pass the tour. The President passed the

passed the torch.

Quote, Biden deserves a better exit from public life than the one he endured

when he shuffled off the stage on Thursday night.

And then there were the headlines, sneering, mocking, jeering all at once.

This was the performance that has gotten us to this point.

We have a thousand trillionaires in America, I mean billionaires in America.

And what's happening?

They're in a situation where they in fact pay 8.2% in taxes. If they just paid 24% or 25% either one of those numbers, they'd raise 500 million dollars, billion dollars I should say, in a 10-year period.

We'd be able to wipe out his debt.

We'd be able to help make sure that all those things we need to do,

child care, elder care, making sure that we continue to strengthen our health care system, making sure

that we're able to make every single solitary person eligible for what I've been able

to do with the COVID, excuse me, with dealing with everything

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