What is going on with Joe Biden?

Coffee House Shots

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🗓️ 20 July 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

This week, Joe Biden has faced further calls to step down from some of the most senior characters in the Democratic party. The President is currently isolating having tested positive for Covid, but remains resolute that he has no intention of giving up yet. Natasha Feroze speaks to Kate Andrews and Freddy Gray about whether the party can get rid of Biden, and discuss what the JD Vance-Trump economic policies could look like.

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0:00.0	Get three month the spectator now for just three pounds.
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0:04.8	Hello and welcome to a special Saturday edition of Coffee House Shots.
0:12.0	I'm Natasha Fros and I'm joined by Freddie Gray and Kate Andrews.
0:16.7	And today, because a lot of people are talking about American politics at the moment, we're going
0:21.0	to talk about American politics.
0:23.0	This week there has been mounting pressure for Biden to resign.
0:28.0	He is currently isolating with COVID.
0:31.0	Freddie, where are we at with this?
0:33.2	Because there was a lot of talk it could happen this weekend.
0:35.6	Well, apparently Joe Biden is pretty sick.
0:37.8	His advisors, who are usually very keen to make that he's fine have said he sounds terrible but a very keen
0:44.0	stress that's because he's sick it's not because of anything else the latest news
0:49.0	seems to be a kind of pushback from team Biden one of his advisors said that AIDS and so on they organized a meeting and he said to them
0:58.7	and there was a phone call and he said to them don't watch news, don't listen to all the chatter, implying we're still in
1:06.0	this fight. And I think the close circle around Biden feel that there has been a kind of attempt
1:11.9	to push Biden out through the media without actually him
1:16.2	agreeing to it. There were lots of reports in the last few days that Biden had become more
1:20.5	open to the idea of standing down.
1:22.9	Certainly the pressure on him from senior Democrats increased.
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