Will Joe Biden run to be president (again)?
Americast
BBC
4.3 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2023
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
What clues were there in President Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech that suggest he's considering a run for a second presidential term? The Americast team take a look at what was in it and how his performance has gone down.
The US president is already back on the road, but not all Democrats are keen for him to run again. The activist Norman Solomon explains why some on the left of the party would rather Biden stepped aside.
And ahead of Super Bowl Sunday we find out what it takes to put together one of the iconic halftime shows with choreographer Fatima Robinson.
Americast is presented by North America editor Sarah Smith, Today host Justin Webb, the BBC's social media and disinformation correspondent Marianna Spring and North America correspondent Anthony Zurcher.
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This episode was made by Phil Marzouk, Alix Pickles and Khadra Salad. The studio director was Mike Regaard. The assistant editor was Louisa Lewis. The senior news editor was Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Yes, it was State of the Union week. |
| 0:06.3 | Yes, we're going to talk a lot about the State of the Union |
| 0:08.7 | and it either State of Joe Biden and the State of Joe Biden's |
| 0:11.7 | obvious campaign for the presidency or for the second term, |
| 0:14.8 | which is plainly going to come, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. |
| 0:17.3 | But before we do, can I suggest we start with something |
| 0:20.3 | completely different? |
| 0:21.2 | Well, not exactly different. |
| 0:22.2 | Something that happened there, but has nothing to do |
| 0:24.1 | necessarily with Joe Biden or with the next presidential election. |
| 0:28.0 | We have historically ended the program with Walker Watch. |
| 0:33.0 | We changed it to Santos Watch. |
| 0:35.6 | And what I'm suggesting, Sarah Mariana, |
| 0:38.4 | is that we pull the lever or lever right now. |
| 0:41.8 | Who's young and ahead, find out a festival? |
| 0:48.1 | Santos Watch. |
| 0:49.6 | Sue me for having a life. |
| 0:51.1 | Oh, Justin, going early on Santos Watch, I like it |
| 0:54.3 | because he has been making big news this week. |
| 0:57.2 | For any Americanster who don't remember him, |
| 0:59.6 | he is a newly elected Republican congressman from New York. |
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