One Thing: Biden Bows Out. Will Democrats Embrace Harris?

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🗓️ 22 July 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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After a disastrous debate performance prompted a flurry of calls from Democrats to step aside, President Joe Biden has announced his exit from the 2024 presidential race. He endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris to run in his place. In this episode, we’ll hear how Biden came to this stunning decision, and what's next for the Democratic Party, with just a few weeks left to coalesce around a new nominee before the convention. Guest: Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN Senior Reporter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	After the CNN presidential debate in Atlanta a little more than three weeks ago,
0:05.0	the vibes in the spin room were off, like stumbling out of a bar at 6 a.m.
0:10.0	into the blinding sunlight off.
0:12.0	Nobody was quite sure what they had just seen. into the blinding sunlight off.
0:12.8	Nobody was quite sure what they had just seen.
0:15.6	Once Democratic surrogates like California Governor
0:18.1	Gavin Newsom did make their way to the floor,
0:20.7	they threw their full support behind President Joe Biden, despite just watching his
0:25.0	stumbling, halting, at times incomprehensible performance against former President Donald
0:31.2	Trump.
0:32.2	Have his back 100% firmly. former President Donald Trump. I would never turn my back.
0:35.5	And I don't know.
0:36.7	That's a personal point of view.
0:38.1	I do not know one Democrat that would do that.
0:40.5	Governor, I should vote. Turns out, it would be way more than one.
0:46.9	Dozens of Democrats and Congress and top donors came forward in the days and weeks after to say that
0:52.2	Biden should step aside. But Biden continued to
0:55.6	hold firm. He told ABC News it would take an active divine intervention to get him out.
1:01.0	I convinced myself with two things.
1:03.0	I'm most qualified personally beaten, and I know how to get things down.
1:07.0	If you can be convinced that you cannot defeat Donald Trump Trump will you stand down?
1:16.0	With the offensive, and if the Lord Almighty comes out and tells me that, I might do that.
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