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How is it that American politics can simultaneously be shocking, but not at all surprising.

The announcement that Joe Biden was pulling out of the presidential race made me gasp,

even though for days we have been saying it is the only path open.

And Joe Biden has said that he wants Kamala Harris to succeed him to be the Democratic Party

nominee. But there are still problems ahead. What does it say if she is anointed rather than

elected? Will the Democratic Party get behind her? And what is Donald Trump going to do? Welcome to a special edition of the

newsagents. The news agents. It's John in the studio in London. And it's Emily in a car,

the back of a car, on the way back from Sussex where I've just been hosting my sister's wedding.

And it's Lewis in Washington State.

The wrong one. Hang on, everybody. I'm losing track of you all. Maitless, you were in Wisconsin

last week and are now in Sussex in England, I think. Goodall, you were next to me in the studio

all week, but you're now

in Seattle. Is that right? Correct. Last night, I was literally sleepless in Seattle because I woke up

jet lag at 4 a.m. I am the Meg Ryan of news agents. I think it's fair to say. What I thought that is.

Well, I mean, what an astonishing eight days this has been in American politics, the likes of which

I don't think we have ever seen an attempted assassination, a Republican convention, an attempt by

Joe Biden to steady the ship, and eight days later, he is out of the race and belatedly backing

Kamala to be his successor as the nominee for the

Democratic Party. It's dizzying. Yeah, I mean, this feels like a very odd sequencing of events

in the sense that although this had become expected, you know, he is isolating in his

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