Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, Hour 3.

Hello and welcome. It is Eric Erickson here. The phone number is 8779774-745, should you wish to be on the program.

I am happy to have you.

Y'all, I've got to talk about the Joe Biden interview from last night.

Wow.

He gave an interview to 60 Minutes.

And he said some interesting things, one of which is this.

Sir, are you committed to running again? Or are there certain conditions that have to be right?

Look, if I were to say to you, I'm running again, all of a sudden a whole range of things come into play that I have requirements I have to change and move and do. In terms of election laws. In terms of election loss. And it's much too early to make that kind of decision. I'm a great respecter of fate. And so what I'm doing is I'm doing my job, we're're going to do that job and within the time frame that makes sense after this next election

cycle here going into next year making judgment of what to do you say that it's

much too early to make that decision I take it the decision has not been made in

your own head look my intentions I said to begin with is that I would run again, but it's just an intention.

But is it a firm decision that I've run again?

That remains to be seen.

Ah, right.

Right.

He hasn't made the decision. Oh, the decision's going to be made for him when the election goes poorly. Now, a couple more things that he said. We'll get to the heart of it. Here's this on the economy. Sir, with the Federal Reserve rapidly raising interest rates, what can you do to prevent

a recession?

Continue to grow the economy.

And we're growing the economy.

It's growing in a way that hasn't in years and years.

How so?

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