Joe Biden says he is not pulling out of the race

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Calarogu Shark media from our beach house, where, thank goodness, we have

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good WiFi. This is valid.
Hey, what are you complaining about?

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You do one sentence, I do
the rest. Anyway, Joe isn't quitting.

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Let's hit this happy. July fourth, Joe jumped on a call in

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a call with staffers and said,
let me say this as clearly as possibly

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can, as simply and straightforward as
I can. I am running. No

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one is pushing me out. I'm
not leaving. I'm in this race to

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the end and we're going to win. Yeah, and I'm not leaving the

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beach no matter how cold it gets
this November Kamala Harris, boy, the

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excitement around her is do we even
have a word for it? Non existent.

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The VP said on the same call, we will not back down.

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We will follow our president's lead.
We will fight and we will win.

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Joe Biden has devoted his life to
fighting for the people of our country.

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In this moment, I know all
of us are ready to fight for him.

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White House Press Secretary Karine Jean Pierre, who clearly drew the short straw,

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is emphatically swatting down any rumors that
President Biden is considering throwing in the

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towel after his less than stellar debate
performance against Donald Trump. The President is

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not dropping out, Jean Pierre declared, as if trying to will it into

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truth through sheer repetition. She spent
the better part of the briefing offering up

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various explanations for Biden's stumbling debate performance. There was the travel, and the

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travel led to a cold. We
have all been there, it's not unusual,

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and you push through, she said, making it sound like the President

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was just battling the sniffles instead of
a complete cognitive breakdown on live TV.

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Jean Pierre didn't stop there, Oh
no. She went on to say that

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things like travel and illness can affect
anyone whether they're twenty or eighty, as

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if the mental fog of jet lag
was the main concern here. She insisted

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that Biden was being upfront about how
his age had impacted his performance, almost

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as if being eighty one and struggling
to complete a sentence is something we should

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all just get used to. The
White House is working painfully hard to dig

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Biden out of this mess, finding
themselves stuck between a rock and a hard

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place, much like Biden himself,
who seems perpetually stuck between the podium and

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his next gaff. One, anonymous
delegate from Texas confess to Politico, I

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don't know if I could in good
conscience support him. Another delegate from South

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Carolina, also anonymous, seem to
be practically crossing their fingers for an open

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convention. I'm very quickly reaching a
point that I hope his name is not

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on the ballot to free up that
restraint. The drama just keeps building.

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This South Carolina delegate envisioned the party
equivalent of a reality TV show. I

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think it would be fantastic for the
party. I mean, think about it.

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People would watch it, It would
get the ratings, It has the

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drama that people would pay attention to. It sounds like they're more interested in

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creating muscle CTV than selecting a viable
presidential candidate. Even those who grudgingly support

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Biden are starting to sound like they're
prepping for a funeral rather than a campaign.

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Irene Bonham from Colorado articulated the new
reality what I'm really looking at is

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how are his appearances now going forward? What does he look like without the

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prompter? How are things coming together
out there in the field. Essentially,

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it's become a game of spot the
cognitive decline. Half a dozen delegates have

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Harris on their radar as Biden's potential
successor. But let's not kid ourselves.

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This is far from a done deal. Samantha Hope Herring from Florida pointed out

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the obvious. If anything like that
were to happen, it's more likely than

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not that our Vice President Kamala Harris
would be our candidate. Still, the

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party's unity is more fractured than a
New Year's resolution. By February, Michigan

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Governor Gretchen Whitmer has already noped out
of the draft efforts, California Governor Gavin

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Newsom is just popping in to say
high and stand with the president, and

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Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro is still parroting
the Biden is up to the job line,

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as if saying it enough times will
somehow make it true. The White

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House pushed back against a New New
York Times report that Joe Biden allegedly told

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a key ally he's weighing whether to
stay in the presidential race. On Wednesday,

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The New York Times reported an anonymous
source saying of Biden, he knows

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if he has two more events like
that, we're in a different place,

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referring to last week's presidential debate,
in which Biden did poorly wait a second

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two. If he has two more
events like this, how about none?

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The White House is doing damage control
like it's an Olympic sport. We're now

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in the phase where every offhand comment
from an anonymous source turns into a headline,

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and the administration is left playing whack
a mole with rumors. Bates is

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emphatic rebuttal on X formerly known as
Twitter, but let's face it, everyone

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still calls it twitter. Nice head
Elon is the latest attempt to cou the

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narrative that Biden's campaign is teetering on
the edge. Joe Biden has privately acknowledged

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how critical the next few days are
to his presidential reelection bid, CNN reports.

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According to the outlet, citing an
anonymous source, Biden sees the moment.

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He's clear eyed. The source added, the polls are plummeting, the

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fundraising is drying up, and the
interviews are going badly. He's not oblivious.

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In a private conversation on Tuesday,
Biden allegedly remarked, I have done

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way too much foreign policy. It
seems Biden's internal monologue is finally sinking with

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reality. The president is now acutely
aware that his campaign is on the brink,

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facing a trifecta of plummeting polls,
evaporating funds, and disastrous interviews,

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And in a stunning display of self
awareness, he's admitted to what many have

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been thinking, perhaps he's spocused too
much on foreign policy while his domestic campaign

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is in flames. The candid confession
about his foreign policy over indulgence might just

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be the understatement of the year.
It's like the captain of the Titanic remarking

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that maybe, just maybe they should
have paid more attention to the Iceberg warnings.

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As Biden grapples with the fallout from
a woeful debate performance and increasing calls

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for him to step aside, He's
got a mountain of issues to tackle,

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and it's all unraveling faster than you
can say electoral college. The next few

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days will indeed be critical, not
just for Biden's reelection bid, but for

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the Democratic Party's future. So as
Biden hunkers down and tries to steer this

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sinking ship. The rest of us
are left to wonder if he can navigate

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these treacherous waters or if he'll end
up marooned on the island of political missteps.

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That's enough for today. Trump probably
did something crazy, but I just

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want to publish this thing and hit
the beach. He'll do something crazy tomorrow

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and the next day watch Joe pull
out Today and totally nuke everyone's weekend.

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Portions of today's program were made with
the help of AI and a man who

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can't read the room Happy Fourth.
This is exactly what Thomas Jefferson and the

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gang had in mind.