Will President Biden Drop Out?

Honestly with Bari Weiss

The Free Press

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🗓️ 4 July 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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The past few days have been perhaps the most dramatic political spectacle since November 8, 2016. Ever since President Biden’s disastrous debate performance last Thursday, there has been a panic around the country. Can he still be on the Democratic ticket in 2024? And who has actually been running the United States for the past four years? Every minute, another shoe drops. Another grim poll, another devastating leak. All of which suggests that Biden has to throw in the towel. But the White House insists he’s in it for the long haul. “I am running. . . . No one’s pushing me out. I’m not leaving. I’m in this race to the end and we’re going to win,” Biden told DNC staff on a call Wednesday. On today’s special *emergency* episode of Honestly, Bari sits down with Axios national political correspondent Alex Thompson to help make sense of what is going on and what comes next. Thompson has covered President Biden for years and is one of the few reporters, long before last Thursday night, who dared to report on the subject of Biden’s age and mental acuity. There’s no one better situated to break down how the Biden camp is dealing with the fallout since the debate. They discuss Biden World’s calculus for staying in the race, who might replace Biden if he ultimately drops out, what is going on with Democratic donors, why the media missed this story for months, and what this could all mean for the future of the nation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.6	tease and sees apply. From the free press this this is honestly, and I'm Barry Weiss.
0:35.4	The past few days have been the most dramatic of any I can remember, well at least since
0:40.6	November 8, 2016. For the past six days, since President Biden's disastrous debate performance on CNN,
0:48.0	we've been in limbo, and it's really a limbo of two kinds.
0:51.0	One is the question of who is going to be on the Democratic
0:54.9	ticket in this upcoming presidential election. And the second and maybe more
0:59.5	alarming is who's actually been running the country or at least running it before 10 a.m. and after 4 p.m.
1:06.8	E. S.T. Every moment it seems another shoe drops another devastating pole, another devastating leak, all of which leads to one conclusion.
1:17.0	Biden has got to throw in the towel.
1:20.0	But the White House insists he's not doing that. They say he's in it for the long haul.
1:25.1	I am running, said Biden. No one's pushing me out. I'm not leaving. I'm in this race to the end and we're going to win.
1:33.0	Oi.
1:34.0	Well today I've invited Axios' national political correspondent Alex Thompson onto the show
1:40.0	to help us make sense of what is actually going on and what might come next.
1:45.4	Alex has been covering Biden for years and he's one of the few reporters who long before
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