#POTUS: EU puzzles over Biden's exit and Harris's entry.
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 24 July 2024
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https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/democrats-new-attack-trump-old-age-1e765b20?mod=hp_lead_pos7
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, he's cute. Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling. He's hugging his pillow like a sloth on a branch. |
| 0:10.0 | He couldn't sleep before. Now listen to him. Sounds like an elephant with a chest infection. |
| 0:15.0 | Well, they call him a dreamer. And now they're right. |
| 0:19.0 | All aboard, Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling. |
| 0:23.0 | Find all the comfort you need in the quiet lounge. |
| 0:26.0 | Piando Ferries, there is another way. I'm John Bachelors Joseph Sternberg, a member of the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:39.0 | He's in London, he writes political economics. |
| 0:42.0 | And this week he writes about political |
| 0:43.9 | violence the political violence of these last week in the United States |
| 0:47.8 | upset everything but then it continued to be upsetting all week long. The Secret Service director has now resigned her post and |
| 0:57.6 | there will be changes at the secret service but there's also changes at the top of the ticket and this is not about violence. |
| 1:05.0 | This is about a surprise. |
| 1:07.0 | At least it was to me because a week past, |
| 1:11.0 | Mr Biden said he was going to stay and redoubled his intention not only |
| 1:16.6 | to be the candidate for the Democratic Party, but to win, to defeat Mr. Trump again. |
| 1:22.3 | And then, Joe, I don't know, is it too early to say that the United Kingdom with a new government |
| 1:29.3 | was Mr. Starmer and an overwhelming majority and enjoying a honeymoon of sorts as it reacted in any |
| 1:36.6 | way to the new name in the Democratic Party presuming that Ms Harris is successful gaining the convention's nomination and |
| 1:45.8 | presuming Ms Harris is successful winning in November as you're reacted to |
| 1:51.5 | that possibility. |
| 1:53.0 | My sense is that the main European reaction to these developments at this point is a form of exhausted puzzlement because, I mean, U.S. politics has become so confusing for us Americans, |
| 2:07.6 | so you can only imagine how it looks from overseas. |
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