Trump’s Lead Just Got Scarier—but This Dem Still Sees a Path for Biden

THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent

The New Republic

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🗓️ 11 July 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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With President Biden forcefully declaring that he isn’t leaving the presidential race, the latest polling looks frightening. The Cook Political Report just released new polling averages showing Donald Trump leading Biden nationally by three points. FiveThirtyEight’s averages also look grim. New swing state polls show Trump dominating. But Ron Klain, the former White House chief of staff to Biden, nonetheless maintains that Biden is still the Democrat with the best shot against Trump. We invited Klain on the show, and he fielded some hard questions while making an expansive case that Biden still has a path. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:41.0	In recent days, President Biden has made it absolutely clear he's not going anywhere.
1:47.4	Though some prominent Democrats have hinted that he should seriously consider stepping aside
1:51.7	as the Democratic nominee, including Nancy Pelosi, Senator Michael Bennett, and some others,
1:57.5	he and his top advisors have essentially stamped out all this talk by adamantly declaring
2:02.4	that he's in this race to stay and that he can beat Donald Trump.
2:06.5	So what's Biden's path to victory at this point? Is there one? Today we're really happy to be
2:12.4	discussing this with Ron Clayne, who was Biden's former chief of staff in the White House and has recently been
2:18.3	defending Biden by arguing that only the president has beaten Trump in a national election. Great
2:23.8	to have you on, Ron. Greg, thanks for having me. Good to be back. So in the current 538 polling averages,
2:31.2	Trump leads Biden by 2.2 points nationally, 3.4 points in Pennsylvania, 1.6
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