Was Biden's "Big Boy Presser" Enough?
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🗓️ 12 July 2024
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Jon and Dan break down Joe Biden's big press conference, whether he did enough to calm nervous Democrats, and whether he's making a sharp enough case against Donald Trump—or for himself—to move the numbers and create a plausible path to victory. Plus, the latest signals from the campaign about what its strategy will be going forward, and how the Trump veepstakes is playing out with only days left to go.
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| 0:00.0 | The Welcome to Pod Save America. I'm John Faffra. I'm Dan Fifer. |
| 0:22.8 | On today's show, the calls for Joe Biden to step aside now seem to be coming from inside the House. |
| 0:28.3 | The Biden campaign is trying to convince Democrats that he still has a plausible path to victory with a new memo and a |
| 0:33.6 | visit by senior campaign officials to Capitol Hill and Donald Trump's VP pick |
| 0:37.7 | could come at any moment and he can't shut up about his potential running mates. |
| 0:41.5 | But first Dan we are recording this right after |
| 0:45.5 | President Biden wrapped up his much anticipated |
| 0:50.0 | post-NATO press conference. |
| 0:52.0 | His big boy press conference, as they said. His big boy press conference, as they said. |
| 0:54.0 | His big boy press conference, as it was called, it was taken live by all the networks |
| 0:58.8 | and it went for about 50 minutes. |
| 1:01.8 | It was quite late, |
| 1:02.8 | it started at 730, it was supposed to start at 6.30. |
| 1:05.6 | Here's some of what we heard from Biden. |
| 1:07.4 | What concerns do you have about Vice President Harris's ability |
| 1:11.0 | to beat Donald Trump if she were at the top of the ticket. |
| 1:15.0 | Look, I wouldn't have picked Vice President Trump to be Vice President, |
| 1:19.0 | until I think she was not qualified to be President. |
| 1:22.0 | So let's start there. The |
| 1:23.7 | consideration is that I think I'm the most qualified person to run for president. I |
| 1:29.9 | beat him once and I will beat him again. |
| 1:33.4 | You mixed up President Zelensky and Putin earlier today. |
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