Prosecutor for president
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The Washington Post
4.1 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
On this special bonus episode, The Washington Post's Libby Casey, Rhonda Colvin, James Hohmann and JM Rieger gather to react to President Biden's exit from the presidential race, what it means for Democrats, and what happens next.
And is Vice President Harris already a shoo-in to succeed Biden as Democratic nominee? The crew dives into Harris's quick succession of endorsements, and previews the Democratic National Convention looming in four weeks.
Plus, how are Republicans reacting?
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| 0:00.0 | We will never give up, we will never conceive it doesn't happen. |
| 0:05.0 | I object to you getting one. |
| 0:07.0 | And now if you don't mind, I'm going to go into the ice pops and sit for a long time. |
| 0:10.0 | Thank you very much. |
| 0:20.0 | Welcome to the Trump trials sidebar from the Washington Post. I'm Liby Casey alongside Rhonda Colvin, James Holman, and J. M. Riger, and we are here for another special episode one day after President |
| 0:30.3 | Biden announced he's dropping out of the 2024 presidential race. |
| 0:34.4 | Look, we know this is not one of Trump's legal issues, |
| 0:37.5 | although it did seem to frustrate him a little bit this weekend. |
| 0:41.6 | So we will consider this a true sidebar to the main |
| 0:44.4 | story, but it is too big for us not to cover. The presidential race has been |
| 0:48.6 | upended. Democrats are forging ahead figuring out the details of their nomination process, |
| 0:53.8 | while Republicans are trying to figure out their strategy. |
| 0:57.0 | They're crying foul, they're promising legal challenges, and Donald Trump went on |
| 1:01.1 | some wayward twist and turns on truth social in the aftermath. |
| 1:04.7 | Suddenly, Kamala Harris has been catapulted into the spotlight and she does seem to have the |
| 1:10.3 | momentum to pick up Joe Biden's mantle. We will watch and see what happens. So let's jump right in. |
| 1:18.1 | James, you know, it is incredible to think back to that debate a few weeks ago and all the concern over Joe Biden's ability to perform. |
| 1:28.0 | But there was this will here, won't he, all the way up to the end. |
| 1:32.0 | What do we know about how Joe Biden made this decision? |
| 1:35.0 | It's hard for him to step aside. He was elected to the US Senate in 1972. He spent his entire life dreaming of trying to become president. He |
| 1:46.5 | finally got it on his third try after losing in 1988, 2008, not running in 2016 and getting it in 2020 and so I think he really did |
| 1:56.3 | internalize the idea that he was the only person who could beat Trump and it took a lot |
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