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I'm Beatrice Adler Bolton, and today I'm here with my co-hosts, Artie Verkan.

Hello.

And Jules Gil Peterson.

Hello.

And in today's episode, we're going to catch up on what has become the unyielding main topic

of the 2024 election, which is whether Biden's performance at the end of last month

in the first presidential election debate means that he should step down and what it's made

people assume about Biden's health and capacity. For weeks now, prominent Democrats and major

media figures have been calling for Biden to step down, not over the disastrous COVID response, not over

Palestine, not over student debt, or any of the many available substantive critiques of Biden's

time and office. Instead, the final straw is, depending on who is speaking, Biden's age or his

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