This is the news. The American presidential race was

upended on Sunday by the shock, maybe not so shock, decision by Joe Biden to drop out of contention.

So today we're going to run a special episode of Politics Weekly America where Johnny

Friedland makes sense of what on earth this means for the Democrats, for Donald Trump,

for the future of America and we'll be back to cover this on today and focus as usual

on Tuesday. Over to Johnny.

Today in focus is supported by A Sense of Rebellion, a new podcast series by Tech Critic Evgeny Morozov.

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A sense of rebellion is available on all platforms wherever you listen to your podcasts. Historic news in Washington tonight for the first time in 56 years an incumbent

president has ended his campaign for re-election.

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