The Free Press Live: Biden Drops Out

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🗓️ 22 July 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Tonight, President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 race and endorsed Kamala Harris to be the Democratic nominee. After weeks of speculation, criticism of his candidacy, concern about his health, and withdrawal of donors, President Biden finally said: “It has been the greatest honor of my life to serve as your President. And while it has been my intention to seek reelection, I believe it is in the best interest of my party and the country for me to stand down and to focus solely on fulfilling my duties as President for the remainder of my term.” What comes next? With the Democratic National Convention less than a month away, Michael Moynihan went live on X with Free Press contributors Walter Kirn, Batya Ungar-Sargon, Eli Lake, and Olivia Reingold, as well Minnesota congressman Dean Phillips (who challenged Joe Biden during the primaries), to discuss this historic turn and how it will impact the election. Follow The FP on X to stay tuned for more livestreams. Note: this episode was originally a livestream on X, and there were a few audio glitches, but we loved this conversation and think you will too. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.1	Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls,
0:32.0	I'm Michael Moynihan for the free press coming to you live with some breaking news that presumably
0:38.0	you've already heard but we need to discuss today President Joe Biden decided that he was going to drop out of the race and endorse
0:45.8	Kamala Harris.
0:47.6	This is after quite a bit of media pressure, quite a bit of donor pressure, and quite a bit of
0:53.1	bit of pressure from people in the party.
0:54.7	Look, this has been a long time coming.
0:57.0	It's not a surprise to me.
0:58.3	Those of us who have been gaslit, I suppose,
1:01.1	is the past tense there, for a very long time that this man was not capable of being the nominee and look
1:07.6	voters said the same thing we have to go back to two thousand twenty two when there was a poll
1:11.9	that over sixty percent I think it was 65% of voters said in June or July of
1:16.6	2022 that Joe Biden should not be the Democratic nominee and those were Democrats.
1:23.6	So been a lot of craziness today in the past couple hours.
1:27.3	If you've turned on cable news and I feel bad if you have
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