Unburdened By What Came Before: Biden Out, Harris In | Libertarian: Richard Epstein | Hoover Institution

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🗓️ 23 July 2024

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President Biden withdraws from the Democratic ticket, changing the 2024 presidential election and former president Trump’s chances of winning.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Libertarian Podcast from the Hoover Institution.
0:15.0	I'm your host Tom Church, joined as always by the Libertarian Professor Richard Epstein.
0:20.0	Richard is the Peter and Kirsten Bedford senior fellow here at the Hoover Institution.
0:25.0	He's the Lawrence A. Tish Professor of Law at NYU and he's a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago.
0:30.0	Today we're talking about President Biden's decision to withdraw from the Democratic ticket in
0:35.1	2024 and the changing fortunes of the Trump campaign.
0:38.9	Richard, hello, it's been quite a while.
0:40.5	Yes, it has, but I mean, nothing has happened in the interim.
0:46.0	Nothing at all.
0:47.0	Absolutely.
0:48.0	I think it's been about a month since you and I have spoken, and in that time, President
0:52.2	Trump was almost assassinated.
0:55.0	There's been some updates on his various
1:00.0	Dowiances with the law and those cases,
1:02.0	but I think most importantly yesterday
1:04.0	President Trump to President Biden decided to say out loud what I think many had
1:09.7	been predicting and perhaps even hoping for that he will not be running for president in
1:15.5	2024 this November. It's a hundred days away. The DNC is coming up in just
1:21.7	under a month.
1:23.6	Very soon thereafter, Richard, he came out and said, I support Kamala Harris as the nominee.
1:30.8	Let's start here, because we no longer have Biden at the head of the ticket.
1:35.0	Former President Trump just spent a week at the RNC talking about who he thought he was going to be running against.
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