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Three Weeks After The Debate, More Dems Call For Biden To Step Down

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4.6 • 12.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Wednesday was jam-packed with new developments on and around the Democratic campaign trail. The White House announced that President Biden tested positive for COVID. Biden also appeared to give himself room to exit the presidential race, saying in an interview with BET News he’d reconsider running if “some medical condition” emerged. However, Biden remained defiant and said he had no plans to drop out. California Congressman Adam Schiff became the most high-profile Democrat to publicly call on Biden to exit the race, telling The Los Angeles Times he has “serious concerns” over whether Biden can beat former President Trump in November. And the Democratic National Committee announced it plans to move forward with a virtual roll call vote to officially nominate Biden ahead of the convention, despite calls to drop it amid the ongoing debate within the party over the president’s candidacy. Politics reporter Todd Zwillich breaks down what it all means.

And in headlines: Special Counsel Jack Smith appealed the dismissal of Trump’s classified documents case, investigators looking into the assassination attempt against Trump at a rally this weekend reportedly told lawmakers that Secret Service spotted the gunman on a nearby roof roughly 20 minutes before shots were fired, and ‘Shogun’ and ‘The Bear’ lead this year’s Emmy nominations.

 

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0:00.0

It's Thursday, July 18th. I'm Priyanka Ara Bindi.

0:09.0

And I'm Juanita Tolliver and this is what a day of the show where we are begging the universe to stop making us live in unprecedented times. Pretty please.

0:17.8

Yes, please give us back that sweet, sweet precedent. We have never wanted anything more.

0:23.6

On today's show, new details emerged in the attempted assassination of

0:34.9

former President Donald Trump. Plus, Emmy nominations have been

0:38.5

announced and we want to know did your favorite show make the cut? But first,

0:42.3

Wednesday was jam-packed

0:44.2

with new developments on and around the campaign trail.

0:47.2

The White House announced that President Biden

0:48.9

tested positive for COVID while campaigning in Las Vegas.

0:52.6

As of now, his symptoms have been mild.

0:54.8

He did tell reporters who were shouting questions to him

0:57.3

on the tarmac that he was feeling good,

0:59.8

but he was forced to cancel a scheduled appearance

1:02.2

at the Unidos U.S. Convention where he was planning

1:04.7

to speak before an audience of Hispanic voters.

1:07.7

That is one of the key constituencies that he hopes will bring him back to the White House

1:11.3

for another term.

1:13.1

But speaking of a next term, more Democrats have come forward saying that they don't

1:17.4

think Biden should stay in the race, including, very notably, California Congressman and Senate candidate Adam Schiff, who on

1:24.4

Wednesday became the highest-ranking Democrat to publicly call on President Biden to

1:28.8

leave the race. All right tell us more about Schiff's statement and its

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