Support is eroding. Can President Biden hang onto the nomination?
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🗓️ 8 July 2024
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Summary
Biden has been trying to clean up the mess ever since. First at a fiery rally in North Carolina. And some ten days after the debate in a one-on-one interview with ABC's George Stephanopoulos.
Neither event accomplished the goal of shoring up support for Biden, and now members of Congress are questioning whether the 46th President should remain the democratic nominee.
Evan Osnos, New Yorker staff writer and author of a biography on Joe Biden, weighs in on the Biden campaign at a crossroads.
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| 0:00.0 | Making sure that we're able to make every single solitary person eligible for what I've been able to do with the COVID, excuse me with dealing with everything we have to do with, look, if we finally beat Medicare. |
| 0:21.0 | On June 27th, long simmering concerns about President Biden's age and |
| 0:26.7 | whether he is fit to serve a second term, they exploded. |
| 0:30.5 | I think it's a legitimate question to say is this an episode or is this a condition. |
| 0:37.0 | If you were my patient if you were my dad frankly I would want to get more testing done. |
| 0:43.0 | Some 24 hours later, Biden tried to put those questions to rest at a campaign rally in Raleigh, North Carolina. |
| 0:50.0 | I don't walk as easy as I used to. I don't speak as smoothly as I used to. I don't debate as |
| 0:56.4 | well as I used to. But I know what I do know. I know how to tell the truth. |
| 1:03.0 | But concerns persisted. |
| 1:06.0 | A week later, Biden used a sit-down interview with ABC News's George Stephanopoulos |
| 1:12.0 | to try to staunch concerns saying that the debate was a bad night. |
| 1:16.4 | And when Stephanopoulos asked how the president would feel if Donald Trump were |
| 1:21.4 | reelected in November, Biden said this. |
| 1:24.3 | I feel as long as I gave it my all and I did the goodest job as I know I can do. |
| 1:29.9 | That's what this is about. |
| 1:31.4 | The interview did not accomplish the goal of shoring up support. |
| 1:35.1 | And now the president's support within his own party |
| 1:38.9 | is weakening, including among some top Democrats in Congress who are calling for the President to drop out of the race. |
| 1:47.0 | Consider this, President Biden is fighting to hang on to the Democratic nomination, Willie. |
| 1:53.6 | From NPR, I'm Mary Louise Kelly. |
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