Greetings. Welcome to the Daily Article Podcast. Today is Monday, July 8th, 2024. I'm Chris Elkins,

narrating today's article written by Denison Forum co-founder and CEO, Dr. Jim Denison.

In normal times, I would probably be writing on Hurricane Burrell after it made landfall this morning at Matagorda, Texas.

The storm is expected to cause significant flooding in the Houston area and beyond.

Or, I would focus on the surprising results in France's parliamentary election where leftists won the most seats,

though no party won a majority.

Or the vote in Iran that elected their

first reformist president in two decades, or the elections that empowered a center-left government

in the UK. But these are not normal times, as a growing chorus is calling on President Biden

to end his candidacy, and some even say he should resign from office.

Mr. Biden continues to face what Axios describes as a credibility crisis, as his support

falls in the Democratic Party, and yet another elected Democrat calls on him to exit the race.

Mark Warner, an influential centrist senator, is working together support among

his Democratic colleagues to ask Mr. Biden to drop his reelection bid. Major donors are defecting

from the campaign. In interviews with more than 50 Democrats, the New York Times found that

many see Mr. Biden's candidacy as unsustainable, and a half-dozen

Democrats in the House of Representatives privately told colleagues yesterday that he should

withdraw from the race. Some are blaming the media for covering up Mr. Biden's alleged

cognitive deterioration. Others are accusing the media of exaggerating and exacerbating the crisis.

This story, within the story, tells us much about our cultural moment and illuminates a biblical

path forward. You may not know the name Juergen Habermas, but the German philosopher's

insights regarding Western democracy are vitally relevant to today's conversation.

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