Will Biden Stay in the Race?

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🗓️ 3 July 2024

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Pressure is mounting on President Joe Biden to step back as candidate for president. A new WSJ poll shows Biden has fallen six points behind Donald Trump and that 80% of respondents said they worry about Biden’s age. WSJ's Annie Linskey explores the rising panic inside the party, and how Biden’s tight inner circle is urging him to stay the course. Further Listening: - Behind Closed Doors, Biden's Age is Showing Further Reading: - Tight Inner Circle Urges Biden to Press On - Behind Closed Doors, Biden Shows Signs of Slipping Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	A new Wall Street Journal poll taken after last week's debate shows that President Biden has fallen
0:12.4	further behind in the 2024 race.
0:15.9	Trump is now leading by six points.
0:19.6	And 80% of those polled said Biden is too old to run for a second term.
0:27.0	Our colleague Annie Linsky covers the White House and she says that since last week's
0:32.2	debate there's been one question looming over her beat.
0:37.1	Has Biden definitively decided to stay in the race?
0:42.4	His team and he to stay in the race?
0:42.7	His team and he are saying that is the case.
0:47.4	I think the situation right now is very fluid.
0:51.0	I don't know what's going to happen next but it's a very fluid situation the president
0:55.4	has signaled and the president's team have signaled he wants to stay in the
0:58.8	race. Why do you describe the situation as fluid?
1:03.0	Because right now, Democrats are talking and they're consulting each other and they're trying to figure out should they call on him to get out of the race?
1:14.8	Is he going to drag them down?
1:17.4	Before the debate, you know, it seems like Democrats could very well take the House back
1:22.4	in this coming election in November and they could
1:25.2	you know maybe hold on to the Senate I think that's always been harder but now there
1:32.0	are Democrats who are saying, my God, if we stick with Joe Biden, we could lose the
1:38.0	White House, we could lose the Senate, and we could lose the House.
1:43.0	And so Democrats are taking this as an existential moment
1:46.0	where they have to decide, can they stick with Joe Biden?
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