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The Highwire with Del Bigtree

THE BIDEN SAGA

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

News, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.93.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

As Biden reemerges, questions turn to his ability to carry on his presidency amid rapidly declining health. We look at who has, and who is still providing cover for his mental acuity. As the nomination is promised to Kamala Harris by delegates without a vote of the people, does she have the popularity to win a general election?

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0:00.0

I'm seeing two big things happening right now. I'm seeing the corporate media over the last two weeks is asking the public to ignore details and to ignore in a lot of times their own common sense on historically significant events.

0:14.4

And I'm also seeing a critical mass of everyday people stepping up and disrupting

0:19.2

corporate media narratives in real time, something we've never seen before, I don't think in this country.

0:25.6

Yeah. So these are just two trains heading towards each other. So let's unpack this a little bit from that

0:31.6

that media narrative that's attempted to be woven into society

0:35.0

continuously and it's not sticking.

0:36.9

So as you said, Joe Biden, he announced just over this weekend here via a message on X formerly known as Twitter, the social media

0:44.5

platform.

0:45.5

He's dropping out.

0:46.5

Hey, you know what, just going to go ahead and drop out.

0:48.1

And this was after he wasn't seen for five days.

0:50.7

People were questioning his health.

0:52.2

He said he came down with COVID and it took a full seven

0:56.3

a week, full seven days for him to make an announcement to the to the country that was last night as you showed.

1:01.7

And a lot of people say this time really looks better. that was

1:05.0

political of the last night as you showed. And a lot of people,

1:06.0

say this time really looks back to the late 60s in the United States

1:07.0

when there was political up people. There were assassinations of key figures.

1:11.0

And at that time, Lyndon Johnson, who was facing a major uphill

1:15.6

battle with the Vietnam War, all Americans wanted us out of this war. It was

1:19.3

grinding on. Instead of putting out a message through a surrogate or just sending a letter to people, he went on TV that night and said this.

1:27.0

With America's future under challenge right here at home with our hopes and the world's hopes for peace

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