Will Biden fight on?
This Is Why
Sky News
4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2024
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Donald Trump has told reporters Mr Biden is quitting, while prominent Democrat figures, including Barack Obama, say the current president has their full support.
On today's Daily, Niall Paterson is joined by our US correspondent James Matthews to assess the likelihood of President Biden withdrawing from the presidential race, and what it would mean for the Democratic Party - and the future of America - if he did.
Producer: Emma Rae Woodhouse
Editor: Philly Beaumont
Promotions producer: David Chipakupaku
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| 1:01.4 | I'm Neil Patterson. |
| 1:02.6 | Welcome to the Sky News Daily, |
| 1:04.5 | where, of course, given that the polls are open, |
| 1:07.3 | we will not be talking about UK politics or the general election today. |
| 1:11.3 | Instead, |
| 1:16.2 | we're going to cast our eyes across the Atlantic to US politics, in particular the race for the White House and Joe Biden. Now, you'll recall that in the past few days, we have seen that |
| 1:21.4 | televised debate between the president and the former president Donald Trump. Common consensus was |
| 1:26.9 | Donald Trump won. |
| 1:28.8 | Joe Biden looked his age, stumbling time and again in that debate, |
| 1:32.9 | even freezing at certain points. |
| 1:34.9 | And since then, things have gotten worse for the Democrats. |
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