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Hello and welcome to the Byron York Show, the No-Chit Chat podcast. We like to get right into it

and what we're going to get into today is what you might call the damn break effect. There are

a number of important Democrats who now are saying in public out loud that they don't want Joe Biden

to run in 2024. I mean, they're running away from a Biden 2024 campaign. So what's going on here?

Obviously, you have seen the polls showing that large majorities of Democratic voters want the

party to pick a new nominee. Somebody else in 2024, they don't say, oh, it's got to be Buttigieg,

Gavin Newsom or Amy Klobuchar, they don't have any particular person that they name, but they want

a new nominee not Joe Biden. So that's what's in the polls. So now we are seeing the living embodiment

of those polls as some important Democratic lawmakers are distancing themselves or maybe they're

outright opposing a reelection run by the president, who of course is going to turn 80 years old

in November, oldest president ever in history. Now, it is not that, we ought to be clear here,

it is not that senior Democrats are eager to disparage a president of their own party. They are not

instead, they're kind of being forced into this by the fact that it's 2022 by the process

of the 2022 campaign in which they are trying to win their own campaigns, their own reelection.

So they're out campaigning, they're doing interviews, they're taking part in debates.

Question comes up, gotta say something. So let's start with a man named Dean Phillips. He's a

representative from Minnesota, member of the house, Minneapolis area. Okay, so last week,

he appears on radio station WCCO and the host is a man named Chad Hartman. And so Chad Hartman

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