The Democrats turn on Joe Biden
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🗓️ 11 July 2024
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Last night, the pressure on Joe Biden ramped up a notch - George Clooney called on the President not to stand in November, through a piece in the New York Times.
It's being reported today he ran the op-ed past Barack Obama - who didnt try and dissuade him.
Nancy Pelosi - arguably the Dem's most formidably woman -suggested Biden should 'make his decision...as time was running out'.
And two senators spelled out the words the White House was dreading - Biden will lose to Trump if he doesn't quit the race.
Will Biden reckon he can sit this one out until the media storm passes - or will the focus be unbearable until he chooses to go gracefully?
It's fifty-fifty right now - and the Republican Convention kicks off in Wisconsin this weekend - how will the Democrats start talking about something else?
Later, the new MPs sitting 'behaviour training ' courses - to remind them not to be rude/abusive/drunken in the commons - Aggie Chambré has the story.
And - will Mr. Brightside become the 2024 euros anthem after The Killers Killer moment? We discuss the football, feelgood factors and folklore.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
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| 0:12.7 | The former Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, is, I'm going out on a limb here, possibly one of the most powerful women in the United States. |
| 0:23.5 | She was asked about Joe Biden's fitness to run for office in November of this year. |
| 0:29.6 | Here's what she told the reporter. |
| 0:31.2 | Does he have your support to be the head of the Democrat? |
| 0:33.3 | As long as the president had, the president, it's up to the president to side if he is going to run we're all encouraging him to to make that |
| 0:43.4 | decision because time is running short the I think overwhelming support of the |
| 0:50.4 | caucus it's not for me to say I'm not the head of the caucus anymore. But he's beloved. |
| 0:58.0 | He is respected. And people want him to make that decision. But of course, President Biden has |
| 1:05.4 | already made the decision. He's been clear about his decision. He says he is running. No ifs, no buts. But it's clear |
| 1:14.3 | that the elites of the Democratic Party, the vultures at the top, are circling. Is it all over, |
| 1:21.5 | bar the shouting? Welcome to the newsagents. The news agents. |
| 1:29.3 | It's Emily. |
| 1:30.5 | It's Lewis. |
| 1:31.4 | And Nancy Pelosi rarely opens her mouth without her words being incredibly significant in |
| 1:39.1 | one form or another. |
| 1:40.9 | So just to take you back to that exchange, if she was offering a full-throated endorsement |
| 1:47.1 | of Joe Biden, it would have been a really simple interview. She would have just said he has my |
| 1:53.2 | unequivocal support to run for president on the Democratic ticket. We love Joe Biden. We think |
| 2:00.0 | he can win. She didn't say that. She kept on |
| 2:03.6 | talking about him making a decision as time was running out. And as Lewis just said, if you're Joe Biden, |
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