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The Journal.

The Week That Changed the Presidential Race

The Journal.

The Wall Street Journal

Daily News, Business News, News

4.25.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

The 2024 presidential election has taken a major turn after Biden dropped out of the race. WSJ’s Molly Ball charts how the 2024 political election has hit a reset and what Harris’s candidacy could mean for her party and the country. Further Listening: - Takeaways from the RNC: Trump Is in Control Further Reading: - Biden Withdrawal Caps Weeks of Epic Political Turbulence Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

So last Sunday at 1.45 p.m. or whatever, I was at the Yankee game and I was like

0:17.0

holding my toddler and a beer and I see a text message from my friend who's like, it's happening. I was like, what? So that's where I was when I heard

0:27.6

the news about Joe Biden dropping his re-election campaign. What were you doing?

0:33.5

I was at the container store.

0:35.0

The container store?

0:35.9

What were you trying to contain?

0:38.9

Well, as you know, these last few weeks

0:41.4

have been somewhat busy with news.

0:44.7

And so I was way past my personal deadline for getting my kids packed up for Summer Camp.

0:51.7

That's our colleague, senior political correspondent Molly Ball.

0:55.6

And she says, Kamla Harris's entry into the race has changed everything.

1:00.2

So this is just another chapter in that sort of roller coaster ride that has been our politics for the last few years.

1:07.0

So you can feel, and of course it's concentrated on the Democratic side but you can feel that new sense of sort of optimism and hope in a lot of the conversation around the presidential race now where before it really struck people as just

1:26.1

this sort of dismal slog.

1:28.4

It is to borrow a term from the youth a total vibe shift isn't it?

1:36.0

Welcome to the journal, our show about money, business, and power.

1:40.0

I'm Ryan Knutzen.

1:42.0

It's Friday, July 26th.

1:49.0

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