“Beating Donald Trump Is Vital”: Mehdi Hasan on Joe Biden Dropping Out, Kamala Harris, Gaza & More

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Journalist Mehdi Hasan joins us to respond to President Joe Biden’s announcement Sunday he is ending his campaign to seek reelection just four months before Election Day. In a letter posted on social media, Biden wrote he was stepping aside “in the best interest of my party and the country,” and then endorsed his Vice President Kamala Harris. She quickly received the backing of many powerful Democrats, but Harris could still face a challenge for the party’s nomination in the four weeks before the Democratic National Convention. Questions about Biden’s candidacy had been growing since at least last year. The activist group RootsAction launched a campaign called Don’t Run Joe 20 months ago, and during the primary more than a half-million voters chose “uncommitted” instead of Biden to protest his support for Israel’s war on Gaza. Hasan says that this is a “big, big moment for American democracy,” and when it comes to Harris, we need to “pressure her in a way that we failed to pressure Joe Biden."

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