President Biden vows to fight on as Democratic nominee, despite pressure to drop out

The ReidOut with Joy Reid

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🗓️ 9 July 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Joy Reid leads this episode of the ReidOut with President Biden’s commitment to remain in the presidential race, despite mounting Congressional pressure for him to step down, primarily due to his age and alleged cognitive ability. Joy is joined by Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett to discuss this plus the support among Black Americans for President Biden to stay in the race. Also in this episode, Donald Trump now claims he knows nothing about “Project 2025”, the very campaign that his inner circle of advisors wrote specifically for him. Plus, Joy and her guests discuss the celebrations in France as the far-Right suffers a surprise defeat in Parliamentary elections. All this and more in this edition of The ReidOut on MSNBC.

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0:00.0	Tonight on the readout.
0:05.0	The bottom line here is that we're not going anywhere. I am not going anywhere.
0:11.0	I wouldn't be running if I didn't absolutely believe that I am the best
0:15.6	candidate to beat Donald Trump in 2024. We had a Democratic nominating process for the voters
0:21.3	spoke clearly.
0:23.0	President Biden on MSNBC today, vowing to fight on and why not he retained support among much of the party base who are focused on the bigger issue than Joe's age, namely defeating MAGA fascism, Donald Trump,
0:36.4	and Project 2025. The same Project 2025 that is so wildly unpopular.
0:43.0	Trump is now claiming he knows nothing about it,
0:45.2	even though his inner circle of advisors
0:47.4	wrote it for him.
0:50.2	Also tonight, celebrations in France
0:52.4	as the far right suffers a surprise defeat in parliamentary elections.
0:56.8	The right also lost big in the UK. Could those elections be a preview of what we will see in our elections in November.
1:05.0	But we'll see in our elections in November.
1:09.0	But we begin tonight with a party in Civil War.
1:12.0	No, not the one led by the rapey felon, the other one.
1:15.4	Over the weekend, the media feeding frenzy over President Biden
1:18.3	and his place on the ticket saw elected Democrats
1:20.9	tripping and falling all over themselves to have their names appear in stories
1:24.9	calling on Biden to quit the race and go be elderly somewhere else.
1:29.0	This despite a new round of swing state polls published on Saturday showing the presidential race
1:33.5	remains essentially tied with the only change since the debate being in Joe
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