President Biden tests positive for COVID-19 amid renewed calls for him to leave the presidential race
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🗓️ 18 July 2024
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President Biden tested positive for COVID-19 yesterday, forcing him to cancel a campaign event in Las Vegas. In a new poll, nearly two-thirds of Democrats agree that Mr. Biden should withdraw, including party leaders. Today we discuss Israel’s response to times when things seemed to be spiraling out of control and the wisdom we find in Jeremiah for returning to the path of peace.
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| 0:00.0 | Greetings. Today is Thursday, July the 18th, 2024. Welcome to the Daily Article Podcast. I'm Chris Elkins, |
| 0:10.0 | hereating today's article written by Denison Forum co-founder and CEO, Dr. Jim Denison. |
| 0:17.0 | President Biden tested positive for COVID-19 yesterday, forcing him to cancel a campaign event in Las Vegas. |
| 0:24.0 | This, after he stated earlier in the day, that he would drop out of the presidential race if he had a, quote-unquote, medical condition. |
| 0:32.0 | His COVID-19 symptoms were mild and would likely not constitute such a condition, but the juxtaposition of the two |
| 0:39.1 | is interesting with regard to their timing. Here's why. Representative Adam Schiff, one of the top |
| 0:45.2 | Democrats in the country, called on Mr. Biden yesterday to pass the torch and step aside from the race. |
| 0:51.6 | In a new poll, nearly two-thirds of Democrats agree that Mr. Biden should withdraw. |
| 0:57.4 | The Washington Post is also reporting that House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries |
| 1:02.0 | and Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer in separate private meetings with Mr. Biden last week, |
| 1:08.1 | told him that his continued candidacy imperils their party's ability to control |
| 1:12.9 | either chamber of Congress next year. And former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi reportedly told the |
| 1:19.2 | president last week that she and other Democratic lawmakers worry that he's dragging down the party. |
| 1:25.5 | Last night, the New York Times reported that Mr. Biden has become more receptive to such |
| 1:30.6 | arguments, though he has not given any indication that he's changing his mind about staying |
| 1:35.5 | in the race. |
| 1:36.4 | He has also asked questions about how Vice President Kamala Harris could win. |
| 1:41.3 | Many Democrats apparently want to replace their nominee while Republicans came |
| 1:45.6 | shockingly close to losing theirs. After the attempted assassination of Donald Trump last Saturday, |
| 1:51.5 | Israeli Special Operations veteran Aaron Cohen told reporters that if the former president had not |
| 1:57.1 | turned his head at the moment a shot was fired at him, he would have been killed. |
| 2:01.7 | According to Cohen, the fact that he just happened to be turned this way with that shot |
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