Pressure mounts on Biden to step aside as more Democrats ask him to end his campaign
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🗓️ 19 July 2024
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| 0:00.0 | Meantime Democrats are increasingly divided on their presidential nominee. More than 10 |
| 0:05.1 | congressional Democrats today called for President Biden to step aside, but his campaign |
| 0:10.1 | insists he's staying in the race. |
| 0:13.0 | This morning campaign chair, Jen O'Malley Dylan said the president was aware that the last |
| 0:18.0 | few weeks had been tough, but he remains committed to staying at the top of the ticket. |
| 0:23.6 | We've definitely seen some slippage in support, but it has been a small movement. |
| 0:29.5 | And you know this. |
| 0:30.3 | The reason is because so much of this race is hardened already. |
| 0:34.0 | The more and more people that see Joe Biden out there post debate, |
| 0:37.0 | they are reassured that he is in it to win it and he can do that. |
| 0:41.0 | Our White House correspondent Laura Barone Lopez joins us now so |
| 0:45.0 | General Malley Dylan says the president is in it to win it. What else you're |
| 0:48.9 | hearing from the campaign about his path forward? Well my Biden world sources are telling me that Trump's |
| 0:54.4 | speech last night at the Republican National Convention emboldened them. They |
| 0:58.5 | feel like they got a boost from that, that the morale saw a boost and they saw in that speech someone who they say is |
| 1:04.9 | very beatable the rhetoric that he used the mass deportations he talked |
| 1:09.5 | about the extremism when talking about immigration they They think that they can beat him. |
| 1:14.4 | And President Biden, while recovering at Rehoboth, |
| 1:17.6 | issued a statement in response to that speech today, |
| 1:20.2 | saying, quote, I look forward to getting back |
| 1:22.2 | on the campaign trail next week to |
| 1:23.8 | continue exposing the threat of Donald Trump's Project 2025 agenda while making |
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