What if Biden quits? | Dave Weigel | Just Asking Questions, Ep. 31
July 11, 2024
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as posted by the channelPolitical reporter Dave Weigel joins the show to discuss Biden's decline and the possibility of replacing him.
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What if Joe Biden drops out? Just asking questions.
President Biden is facing increasing pressure from his own side to drop out of the 2024 race, which nearly every poll taken since his disaster debate performance last week shows him losing. The latest Real Clear Politics average has him down by about 3.5 percentage points nationally. Several Democratic congress members have called for him to step aside. So have Democratic megadonors. Much of the national press, once dismissive of those pointing out Biden's mental deterioration, have turned on him.
So where do we go from here?
To help us begin to answer that, Just Asking Questions invited on David Weigel, a political reporter for Semafor, and previously for the Washington Post, Bloomberg, Slate, and Reason magazine.
Weigel talked with Reason's Zach Weissmueller and Liz Wolfe about the media's slow acknowledgment of Biden's deteriorating condition, Biden's turn against the Democratic "elite," getting "coconut-pilled" on a Kamala Harris candidacy, and what a contested Democratic primary might look like.
Watch the full conversation on Reason's YouTube channel or the Just Asking Questions podcast feed on Apple, Spotify, or your preferred podcatcher.
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