Welcome to Words Matter with Katie Barlow and Joe Lockhart.

Welcome to Words Matter, I'm Katie Barlow.

Our goal is to promote objective reality.

As a wise man once said, everyone is entitled to their own opinion, not their own facts.

Words have power and words have consequences.

Alright Joe, so we had a big week last week where on the heels of the great impeachment debate,

TPD who the final winner of that one will be, we'll find out on the unredacted episode for part two.

But we also got a presidential candidate announcement.

Joe Biden announced that he was running for president this past week.

How does Biden jumping in officially shake up the race?

Well, let's start with the definition of TPD.

Joe won, but we've lost.

And just like Joe Fraser and Muhammad Ali, we'll have a rematch.

Well, this time Joe's going to win again.

The leap is not here to defend himself, but I'll allow it.

Okay, Biden getting into the race.

I think Biden getting into the race formally starts the second phase of the democratic nomination process.

The first phase was 18 or 19 people getting in, most of whom were not known to the American public and even to activists.

Most of them are first time presidential candidates.

I think all of them are first time presidential candidates.

The competition was to show you could raise money, you could be relevant, get attention, draw a crowd in New Hampshire, Iowa.

And some did very well, some did less well.

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