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The world is waiting for confirmation that Joe Biden will not be the Democratic presidential nominee against Donald Trump. That s because, after watching the debate, most Americans and allied countries were left with a sense of sadness, concern, and even fear that the sitting president is not mentally fit to hold the most powerful job in the world.
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The world is waiting for confirmation that Joe Biden will not be the Democratic presidential
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nominee against Donald Trump. That's because of Biden's car crash debate performance last week.
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Biden had one job, to convince top Democrats and the public that he still has enough marbles left
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to complete another four-year term. He failed. In fact, after watching the debate, most Americans
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and allied countries were left with a sense of sadness, concern, and even fear that the sitting
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U.S. president is not mentally fit to hold the most powerful job in the world. When Biden is removed
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or resigns, it will send the Democratic Party into disarray. If unpopular and unlikable Vice President
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Kamala Harris is the next choice, Democrats don't stand a chance. And if she's replaced by a more
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favorable politician, say California Governor Gavin Newsom, it will split the party that bows at the
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feet of DEI. The situation holds some parallels to Canada's own political landscape. Here too, voters
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are being asked to deny what they can see with their own eyes. Rampant homelessness, rising living costs,
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a dysfunctional leader. And in both cases, the years of lies are coming home to roost,
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and the parties responsible will have to reap what they've sown. But perhaps most importantly,
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in both countries, conservatives, perhaps for the first time in years, are feeling a sense of hope
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and optimism with the knowledge that things could soon change to be safer, better, and happier. And
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that if they don't, it's likely that North America as we know it is gone forever. I'm Rachel Parker,
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Okay everyone, and for my long-time viewers, you'll notice that I have changed my name. I did get
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married about a year and a half ago, and initially I had decided to keep my maiden name for my public
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life, but I really just didn't like going by two names, and I wanted to have the same name as my family,
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especially having a son now. So I have made the decision to change my last name. You'll notice
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that my byline will be appearing as Rachel Parker. Just wanted to give you a little explanation on
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that. I'll probably be giving this announcement a couple times over the next few weeks because not
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everyone catches every episode, just so that everyone is all cut up to base and there is no
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confusion there. Okay, now diving into today's coverage. Okay everyone, we are going to start with
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the story that everyone has been talking about, Joe Biden's debate performance. Last week, Thursday,
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Joe Biden faced off with Donald Trump, who is of course the Republican presidential nominee
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in one of the most disastrous debates I've ever witnessed. Now I watch a lot of American politics,
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but you don't even have to watch a lot of U.S. news. Maybe if you had even just tuned in for a
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couple minutes to a Joe Biden press conference at some point, you'd have already known that this man
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was not up to the job. His mental capabilities simply were not there. He's very old, he's very fragile,
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there's often videos of him circulating online, tripping and falling. He seems to get lost very
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often, not only in his thoughts, but also just when he's walking about. So many of us have known
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that he is not up for the job for quite some time now. However, his performance was so bad that it
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finally forced the liberal media, as well as many other Democratic politicians to come out and say,
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something is wrong here, Joe Biden cannot continue. It even forced some of the most disingenuous
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Democratic politicians like former Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to come out and say
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that concerns about Biden's health are legitimate. A Democratic House member for Texas is also calling
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for Joe Biden to step aside and make the way for someone most likely younger. Joe Biden, of course,
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has not yet agreed to step aside. The White House says he will still run for president. He is meeting
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today with Democratic governors to try and shore up some support after his performance last week.
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So let's start by breaking down some of his worst and perhaps most concerning moments of the night.
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Trust me, we didn't have to look very hard. Take a look at this first clip.
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Where they, in fact, pay 8.2% in taxes. If they just paid 24%, 25%, either one of those numbers,
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they'd raise $500 million, billion dollars, I should say, in a 10-year period. We'd be able to wipe out
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his debt. We'd be able to help make sure that all those things we need to do, child care, elder care,
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making sure that we continue to strengthen our health care system, making sure that we're able
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to make every single solitary person eligible for what I've been able to do with the COVID,
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excuse me, with dealing with everything we have to do with, look, pandemic was so badly handled.
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Many people were dying. All he said was, it's not that serious. Just inject a little bleach into
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your arm. You'll be all right. In that first clip there, you can see Biden is trailing off.
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He isn't able to complete a sentence. That right there was, I think, the first indicator to everyone
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watching that things were not going to be going well for Biden, but it was also the first indicator
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that this man should not be president. I don't think we can really stress how serious it is that
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the sitting U.S. president is not able to complete a sentence. I think because Biden is so old and we've
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seen so many of these moments, we've sort of started to just blow over them and not really understand the
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seriousness of the fact that POTUS cannot finish his train of thought. In that second sentence,
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Biden says something really bizarre there. He says that Donald Trump was telling people to inject
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bleach into their arms during the COVID-19 pandemic, which of course Trump did not do.
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I was watching the debate live on Thursday night and I wasn't as shocked as everyone else. I think
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because I just kind of expected this type of performance from Biden. I was more surprised
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scrolling online, seeing exactly how shocked people were about Biden's performance. I've just
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become so accustomed to seeing him trailing off mid-thought, wandering off stage, going to shake
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a hand of someone who isn't really there. So it didn't come as much a surprise to me, but obviously
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there's been people who have not only been lying to the public, but also been lying to themselves
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about Biden's mental aptitude and they were clearly caught very off guard on Thursday night.
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But I believe in the exceptions for rape incest and the life of the mother. I think it's very
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important. Some people don't follow your heart, but you have to get elected also. And because
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that has to do with other things, it's been a terrible thing, what you've done. The idea
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that states are able to do this is a little like saying, we're going to turn civil rights
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back to the states, that each state have a different role. Look, there's so many young women
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who have been including a young woman who just was murdered. And he went to the funeral.
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And the idea that she was murdered by an immigrant coming in, they talk about that. But here's the
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deal. There's a lot of young women being raped by their in-laws, by their spouses, brothers and
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So for those of you who didn't hear what Biden said, he was saying that there are cases of women
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who are getting raped by their spouses, getting raped by their in-laws, getting raped by their
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brothers and sisters. Now, I'm not saying that this never happens, but it's certainly a very niche
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topic. I'm not sure one that is such a phenomenon that it needs to be discussed during the U.S.
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presidential debates. It's also very interesting that this was Biden's attempt to redirect from what
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former President Donald Trump was talking about, which was the mass immigration crisis, which is,
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of course, a much more prominent issue in U.S. politics. It's top of mind for both Republican
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and Democratic voters, especially with some of the murders and some of the rapes that we've been
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seeing of American women and girls. And so Biden's efforts to redirect here obviously failed,
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but was just very kind of a bizarre thing to bring up. You can sort of see Trump looking over
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to him like, what? What? I think that's my favorite part of the night. Just Donald Trump trying to just,
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you know, keep a serious look about him, kind of looking over to the side and going,
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what is this guy on about? That's probably my highlight of the night. Now, it wasn't only
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what Biden said during the debates that caused concern, but also his facial expressions during the
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night, looking very lost, looking very bewildered. Take a look at this next clip.
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It's embarrassing day in the history of our country's life. President Trump, over the last
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eight years, there was honestly just as much discussion about Biden's facial expressions
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during the debate as there was to what he had said. That was so strange. Here's a comparison
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from Matt Walsh. I'm not sure what that is. It looks like some sort of bizarre sea creature.
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If you know what this is, please let me know. I am curious now. Now, while this debate performance
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is still fresh in your mind, let's take a look at former U.S. President Donald Trump and how he did.
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It was one of his better debates. I think a lot of people felt that maybe he wasn't quite as sharp
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as he'd been in the past. You know, he didn't have quite as many zingers. You know, the media,
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we always like to talk about the zingers and debates. Those are the moments that are easy to
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clip, that go viral online, that make people laugh. Oh yeah, he really got him. It's kind of
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what we look for. Maybe it's a bit of a cheap shot. But, you know, I felt that Donald Trump did
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exactly what he needed to do here, which was to show himself to not be angry. I think following his last
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election loss, the media did a really good job of painting him someone who was angry,
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painting him as someone who didn't want to give up power and wouldn't give up power. You know,
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they always ask that question. Will you accept the results of the election? Even though he obviously
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did accept the results of the last election, he did give up the position as president, even though
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he did look for legal options because he felt that the election wasn't fair, given all the laws that
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changed to allow for mail-in ballots during the COVID-19 pandemic. And there's still a lot of
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questions about the legitimacy of that. But of course, we know that President Trump did give up
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office. He did step down. So those questions are a bit silly. But let's take a look at some of his
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better moments of the night. Continue to move until we get the total ban on the total initiative
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relative to what we're going to do with more border patrol and more asylum officers. President Trump?
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I really don't know what he said at the end of that sentence. I don't think he knows what he said
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either. Look, we had the safest border in the history of our country. The border, all he had
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to do was leave it. All he had to do is leave it. So there we saw Trump noting that something is
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amiss with Biden. He doesn't even really do it in a mean way. He doesn't call Biden dumb or old or say
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that he's mentally impaired. He just sort of says, I don't even know what he said there. And I don't
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think he knows what he said either. He's sort of pointing out what everyone can already see with
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their own eyes. Something's clearly not right with Biden. He's not able to finish his sentences.
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He's mumbling. He's trailing off. He is just pointing that out in a really calm and I think
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kind of kind way considering what we've seen from Trump in the past and how far he could have taken
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this. Here we have another good moment from Trump where he kind of slaps down Biden when they're
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Voluntary person eligible for what I've been able to do with the COVID, excuse me, with dealing with
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everything we have to do with. Look, if we finally beat Medicare.
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He's right. He did beat Medicare. He beat it to death and he's destroying Medicare.
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So we talk about zingers in a debate. Here's a really good example of that.
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The topic of Medicare comes up. Biden finishes off. The moderators turn Trump's mic back on and he
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quickly says, yeah, you beat Medicare. You beat Medicare to death. He's very quickly able to flip
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that situation on Biden and moments like those, you know, that was of course clipped, went viral all
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over the Internet. Everyone saw that and just thought, yeah, you know, here's an example of someone who has
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strong mental aptitude. He's able to grasp the concepts and to respond. In contrast, Biden wasn't
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really aware of what he was talking about, was lost, trailed off. And in the moments where he
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was able to finish his sentences, it was just so over rehearsed as if he had just spent, you know,
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hours and hours ahead of the debate, practicing, memorizing lines, not understanding actual concepts,
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not being able to work with the material and to discuss it in any meaningful way, but simply to
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repeat lines. We know that President Biden spent the six days before the debate preparing. There was
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report saying that he wouldn't start until about 10, 30, 11 a.m. and that he would also have an
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afternoon nap every day. So I'm not sure how much time he actually spent practicing for debate, but
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obviously he is very old. You know, he needs his rest. It's not surprising that they had to give him
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six full days and then he still came out looking very unprepared. I don't think that was an issue of
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him actually being unprepared. I just think that's the best that they could do with Biden and him being
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so elderly at this point. And as I've said now a hundred times, he's just not up for the job
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anymore. So finally, let's go to one of Trump's best moments of the night. Here he is talking about
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retribution. This of course had to do with the January 6th, the protests at the Capitol. Many
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people have tried to say that Trump is responsible, that it was an insurrection, that Trump called for
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the insurrection. Here he is now being asked about retribution. Take a listen.
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Your main political opponent is standing on stage with you tonight. Can you clarify exactly what it means
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about you feeling you have every right to go after your political opponents?
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Well, I said my retribution is going to be success. We're going to make this country successful again
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because right now it's a failing nation. My retribution is going to be success.
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Conservative commentators largely pegged this as one of Trump's best moments of the night. I have to agree.
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It was really just the perfect answer. The best retribution for me is success. I think if all of us
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applied that in our own lives, the world would be a much better place. You know, not one where people are
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holding grudges, but are really just trying to do their best and excel. And I think Trump just showed
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himself to be so contained. Of course, questions about January 6th, many people in the liberal media
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in the States have tried to peg him as responsible for the protests that took place at the Capitol.
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It was called an insurrection at the time. You know, people said it was worse than 9-11. Just some
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bizarre things have come out and questions about that have dogged Trump ever since then. As well, you and I
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might not have concerns about whether Trump would be willing to concede the election if he did lose
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again. But for voters who did believe the lies about January 6th watching at home, I think this
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would be very reassuring to them hearing his answer. This is someone who is really just looking to,
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you know, go out and win. And he's looking for a victory. He's not looking for vengeance. And
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later in the debate, you know, Biden kept trying to bring this up time and always looking for
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retribution. But Donald Trump had already dealt with that by saying that for me, success is my
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retribution. And so I think Biden's efforts there to sort of paint Trump as angry and someone who
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was vicious and who wouldn't respect democracy and respect the will of the American people,
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I think those really fell flat. Now, if you think that Biden's performance throughout the night was
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the worst part of the evening, you would be wrong. There was one moment, not a lot of people saw this,
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it was circulating online. I'm going to share this video for you now of immediately following the end
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of the debate. You see Donald Trump kind of saunter off stage there. And then you see Joe Biden feebly
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being helped down the stairs by his wife, Jill. Take a look.
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For anyone who finished the debate without feeling a sense of concern or alarm over President Biden,
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I think in that moment, it must have hit them that this is just not a good situation. Here's a man
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can't even really walk down the stairs very well by himself. And then Dr. Jill Biden, she, you know,
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really solidified that concern by seeking to rally up supporters. You know, I'm sure at that point,
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they just wanted to go home and sort of get down on their knees and think to themselves,
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what have I done? But here she is seeking to congratulate her husband, amp up supporters.
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I think she probably did the exact opposite. Take a look at this next clip and listen carefully to
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what she says. Joe, you did such a great job. You answered every question. You knew all the facts.
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So you see her there. She looks at Biden and she says, you answered all of the questions.
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You answered all of the questions. Imagine congratulating the sitting US president for
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their debate performance by saying you answered all the questions. The bar has truly never been
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lower. Of course, this clip went viral online. I have to read you some of the responses. They were
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just absolutely hilarious. Basically saying what we're all thinking. This user here said,
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Jill sounded exactly like me when I encouraged my toddler when he went potty. It's pretty much the
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case. That's how I feel when I am finally able to feed my son a little spoonful of food. He really
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doesn't like to eat solids yet. So finally, when I get a little, you know, maybe a spoonful of banana
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down him and I say, good job, but he smiles at me. That was sort of what Biden looked like in that
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moment. Just a little kid, you know, so happy to be getting some praise from his wife. It actually,
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it sort of melted my heart a little bit in a very sad way. You know, it's just very sad. This is the
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situation that America is in and really the rest of the world is. And obviously here in Canada, we
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rely on the States for, for quite a bit. So another user said, this sounds like praise for a first grader.
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And finally, user said, I've been holding strong, but this one made even me feel bad for Biden.
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He smiled when his wife told him he did a good job, which is honestly how I felt. You kind of,
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your heart breaks from, you see in that moment, just exactly how old he is. And it's so true that
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at the end of life, it's sort of like when you're an infant again, you know, you're sort of, you'll
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end up in diapers again a lot of times and you just become very childlike. You need to rely on people
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for care when you're very young. And again, when you're very old, you're not able to do things on
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your own anymore. And we're seeing that now with Biden. He's old and it's very childlike. And so we can
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laugh and poke fun at the situation because it is very ridiculous. And I think we should laugh and
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poke fun at it. But at the same time, there's a heaviness to it and there's a sadness to it.
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Just seeing Biden. And I know a lot of people, you know, are very angry at, at Jill Biden saying
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she should not be doing this to her husband. And the thing that I wonder is, you know, Biden,
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he's 81 years old now. If he had not run and he had not been president for the last four years,
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I can't help but think that his mental capacity would actually be quite a bit better
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because he's obviously been under an incredible amount of stress over the last four years.
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And I suspect that contributed significantly to the deterioration of his mind over the past four
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years. I think that if he had been in retirement, been enjoying just his last years with his grandkids,
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you know, he's not a good man. I'm not going to pretend that he's lived a good life or that he's
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been a good person. But if he hadn't run for office and he had just stayed home, I think his mental
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capacity would actually be a lot better. And we've just seen his health decline so much over the last four
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years. And the people around him, including his wife, you know, they have to take responsibility
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for that. In case any of you were wondering if this was just sort of a one-off and, you know,
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it was just a bad debate performance night for Biden. We know that the Democrats tried to say,
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oh, you know, he had a cold. He wasn't feeling well. He had a cold. The White House press secretary
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fielded questions about whether he was on any medication that night. She said he was not. But
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immediately after the debate started, we saw, you know, some journalists in the States tweeting out
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that Biden had a cold. OK, having a cold does not mean that you have mental impairment. You know,
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you might have the sniffles. Maybe your voice is a little bit more congested than usual. But
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you don't your sentences don't trail off. You don't lose your train of thought every other minute
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when you have a cold. It was sort of a ridiculous effort on their part. But, you know, I think they're
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just sort of at a point where they don't even know what to do. I think a lot of people are feeling
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that he should step aside. But for those of you who are wondering, oh, you know, maybe the cold
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really did, you know, get to his mind. Maybe it was just a bad night for him. Here he is the very
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next day, once again, with his cruel wife, Jill, at a rally. Just take a look at the expression on his
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face. Here in North Carolina and across America, who are working hard to find a secure place in the
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middle class. The moms who worry that they're doing. I saw in him then the same character that I see in
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him today. So there you see it again. This man is just not, he's just too old. Like, please take him
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home, put him to bed. That expression is actually scary. And I think anyone watching that, you just
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have to feel kind of sad for the man. His wife is parading out in public. I hope that when I'm that
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old and I've lost a couple marbles, heck, maybe even after I've had another baby and I haven't slept
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through, you know, the now a night in two years, my family might just say, Rach, you know, it's time to
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put away the microphone, turn off the camera for a little while, get some rest, try it again. In Biden's
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case, obviously we know he's just done. He's had a very long political life. He's very old. It's time for
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him to retire and step aside. Now there are reports coming out that Jill Biden is actually not allowing
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her husband to have conversations with anybody who might encourage him to resign, believe it or not. She
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is so desperate to hold on to the power that she doesn't want her husband speaking to anybody who might
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talk some wisdom into him, who might tell him, listen, Joe, you know, you can resign now and save your
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legacy. Honestly, I personally think it might be a little bit too late for that. If he resigns now, it'll always be
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remembered as a resignation that came after this car crash debate performance. If he had done it a
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couple months ahead of time, you know, maybe he would have been able to salvage things. But at this
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point, I think, you know, the signs are kind of there. I think everyone's, the writing is on the
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wall. Everyone knows why he needs to resign. And that's how his legacy will be remembered at this
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point. So after this debate performance, we immediately see knives out, knives out for Biden,
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House Speaker, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi came out and said that concerns about his health are
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legitimate. Take listen to that. So we have all these things that he was masterful in helping to
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orchestrate to write and to pass. So he has a vision. He has knowledge. He has judgment. He has
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a strategic thinking and the rest. He has a bad night. Now, again, I think it's a legitimate question
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to say, is this an episode or is this a condition? As I mentioned, the White House is using this excuse
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that he had a cold. He said he was not on any medication. They also fielded questions about
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whether he had had a cognitive test. We know that when President Trump was in office, he had had a
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cognitive test that he said he passed with flying colors. He was actually sort of talking about that
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again during the debate on Thursday, bragging about his performance and how well he passed that test.
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The White House is saying that a cognitive test for Joe Biden is not warranted in this case. I think
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the American public would disagree, but White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was even asked
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point blank whether POTUS has dementia or another degenerative illness. Take a listen.
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I'm going to ask something delicate and you may not like it. The president may not like to hear it
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if he's watching, but I think the American people need to get a yes or no answer on this.
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Does President Biden at 81 years old have Alzheimer's, any form of dementia,
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dementia or degenerative illness that may cause these sorts of lapses? And it's a yes or no
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question. And if you don't know, why don't you as one of his senior staff members know?
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I have an answer for you. Are you ready for it? It's a no. And I hope you're asking the other guy
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the same exact question. And then of course, to be expected, another impact of this was just
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extremely unfavorable polling data for President Biden in the days since the debate. This is from CNN.
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So if we're talking about biased American news sources, this is probably about as bad as it gets.
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Three quarters of U.S. voters say the Democratic Party would have a better shot at holding the
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presidency in 2024 with someone other than President Joe Biden at the top of the ticket.
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That's according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS. Biden's approval rating also hit a new low
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following a shaky performance in the first debate of this year's presidential campaign.
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So we're going to take a look at some breakdown. Voters nationwide favor former President Donald
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Trump over Biden by six points. 49% to 43%. Some of you might have expected these numbers to flip a
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bit more. I think if we see an eight point lead for Donald Trump heading into the November 5th election,
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that's a pretty good indicator that the Democrats aren't going to do too well. We're not going to see
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a massive flip like we would maybe see in Canada. I think voters in the states are just quite a bit
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more entrenched. An eight point flip is enough to get the Republicans the victory that they're
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looking for. However, these are still bad signs. Three quarters of U.S. voters say that the Democratic
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Party would have a better shot at the presidency. So 75% of people are saying, you know, Biden, he's
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done. He's got to go. So that brings us to the question of the top of everyone's mind. What happens
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next? On Sunday, Bill O'Reilly was the first out of the gate with the news that it's over for Biden.
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He said that Biden is going to resign. The White House is just figuring out how to announce that
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news. That information as of now is unconfirmed. The White House is still saying that Biden will be
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atop the ticket. He will still be running for president. Things are changing almost hourly.
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It's likely that this news could be out of date very, very soon. We're seeing multiple reports
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from people saying that Biden is done. You know, speculation as well, but just within the Democratic
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Party, there's rustlings. We're hearing that even the Obamas are saying Biden's performance was
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disastrous. Of course, Obama did put out a tweet supporting Biden saying, yeah, you know, we all
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have bad debates. We all have bad nights. But behind the scenes, it sounds like something very
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different is going on. Obama is saying that Biden was already going to have a difficult path to
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re-election and now it'll be even more challenging. You know, when we're hearing that all around,
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people are saying it's time for a shakeup. Tucker Carlson also weighed in on X writing,
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Biden is done. Bet on it. Too many prominent Democrats have suggested he's brain damaged.
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They can't walk that back. They have to remove him and they will.
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Now, the question remains is how and if the Democrats can even get Biden off the ballot.
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This has been a topic of speculation. Lots of different trains of thoughts as to how this would
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work. One problem that could arise is that Georgia, Wisconsin and Nevada may prove especially
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difficult for the Democrats to actually get Biden off that ballot. For example, in Wisconsin,
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it's said that a candidate's name can only be removed in the case of death. For Nevada,
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the deadline for changing a candidate ended at 5 p.m. on the fourth Friday of June. So in this case,
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that was on June 28. That's long past now. Nevada does allow a special consideration beyond that
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deadline if the candidate is mentally incapacitated. But even in that case, this is likely going to end
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up in the court. So now we're looking at potentially weeks-long court cases. You know,
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we're coming up on this election on November 5th. There's not a lot of time to be switching out
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candidates right now. As for Georgia, Georgia allows candidates to withdraw up to 60 days before
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an election. If Biden withdraws after that date, it would be in early September. His name would remain
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on the ballot, but votes wouldn't count for him. So in this case, time is really of the essence.
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Obviously, that deadline for Nevada has already passed. Georgia, you can still make the changes in
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Georgia. Wisconsin, it says only a death. So I don't know what this is going to look like. We know that
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the Heritage Foundation, that's one of America's largest conservative groups, is already getting
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challenges ready in battleground states in case Biden agrees to step aside. The executive director
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of the Heritage Foundation's oversight project, Mike Howell, told Newsweek the process of switching
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candidates is legally complex, adding, quote, we are monitoring the calls from across the country for
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President Biden to step aside, either now or before the election, and have concluded that the
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process for substitution and withdrawal is very complicated. We will remain vigilant that
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appropriate election integrity procedures are followed. So the Heritage Foundation, this is a
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very powerful group. They have a ton of backing. This is the group that was largely responsible for
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the overturning of Roe v. Wade. They have the proper legal minds, they have the proper backing and the
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proper funding. So certainly they are going to do their best effort to create a headache for the
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Democrats if they try to switch out the presidential nominee at the last moment. Looks like there's still
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some wiggle room. I just don't know how they would be able to supersede that in this constant where it
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does say only in the case of death can a candidate's name be replaced ahead of the election at this
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point. So certainly it's going to be very problematic for for the Dems. And then of course they have
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the discussion of who are they going to choose to replace them, as I mentioned in my monologue.
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You know, the appropriate choice at this point in the game would be Vice President Kamala Harris,
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but she's very unpopular. She's not well liked in the Democratic Party. She was chosen
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because they wanted a female black vice president. And, you know, she hasn't been doing a very good job.
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I can imagine what can be, and be unburdened by what has been. You know?
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You know, she doesn't stand a chance against Donald Trump.
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i know that there's been a lot of discussion about california governor gavin newsom could he
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be the democratic presidential nominee it really threatens to split the party because they've now
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taken away what potentially could have been the first black female president and they've replaced
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it with a white man and this is the party that loves diversity equity and inclusion more than
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anything else that is their holy grail that is where they bow their knees so that would really
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threaten to kind of split the vote split the party could cause a lot of disarray for them okay
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everyone my question of the week for you all is who do you think will be the democratic presidential
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nominee in the 2024 election against donald trump post your responses in the comment section below
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don't forget to explain why you think that your choice will be the pick for the nominee i hope that
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