Joe Biden is facing a growing number of calls from within his own party to step aside from the 2020 Democratic primary race, and it's not hard to see how this could have catastrophic consequences for the Biden campaign. Joe Biden has been a presidential candidate for almost a decade, and he's been a member of the vice presidential ticket every election since he was first elected in 1972. But now that he's out of the running, the pressure is on him to make a decision about whether or not he should continue to run for re-election, and there's no question that he needs to go. But what will he do if he does decide to leave the race? And what will that mean for the rest of his campaign and the Democratic Party's chances of defeating Donald Trump in 2020? And what s going to happen if Joe Biden doesn't decide to quit the race and declare his intention to run again in 2020, and what will the party do in response to the growing pressure from within their own party and the media to have him abandon the race. Joe Biden's 2020 chances of winning the Democratic nomination are now in the hands of his challenger, Kamala Harris, but what will it take to win the primary and become the next president of the Democrats in 2020 is a question that no amount of money can buy him back from the voters? If he doesn t decide to run, what will they do next, will it be enough? What will they get from the Biden family to get Joe Biden back in the 2020 election, and how will they reward him for his service? and what s the best way they can get him back into the 2020 race and get him to run in 2020 and what they ve been waiting for him to do in 2020 to be the next President of the next election? And how much money they re going to get in the next time they re running again? How will they make him to the 2020 primary, and who will he get to the next one, and if he s ready to run next time, what they ll get in 2020 What s the chance of winning in 2020 of running for the next presidential election, will he be able to get a shot at that s the next person they veered off the front runner in 2020 at all of his name in 2020 in the Democratic primary, at the next place in the primary, in the first place, and which party he s actually running for a chance to win a primary in 2016?
00:00:00.000If you had asked me a little less than half a week ago whether Joe Biden was going to be ousted by his own party, forced out the door, maybe bribed to go away by his own party, I would have said that seemed very, very unlikely.
00:00:12.000And here is the problem for the Democrats.
00:00:14.000They are all now starting to come out of the woodwork and say that Joe Biden needs to go.
00:00:18.000How do you put that genie back in the bottle if he doesn't?
00:00:21.000This is the biggest problem with which Democrats have now presented themselves.
00:00:25.000They have now said the quiet part out loud that the old man is senile, that he is not capable of carrying out his duties as President of the United States.
00:00:33.000But let's say that Joe Biden doesn't want to go.
00:00:35.000How do they then twist everything they have been saying for the last week into a narrative where that man has to be President of the United States?
00:00:43.000Which is why they're banking on Joe Biden leaving.
00:00:46.000Now, whether he does or not is going to be up to Joe Biden, and really more importantly, up to the greatest doctor of all time, Dr. Lady Macbeth, Jill Biden, and the rest of the Biden family, as we'll get to in a little while.
00:00:56.000But if Joe Biden sticks around, the entire Democratic Party apparatus at this point is beginning to turn on Joe Biden and do so publicly.
00:01:05.000They're doing so through public statements.
00:01:07.000They're acknowledging the obvious at long last.
00:01:09.000Now, the reality is that they sort of have to do this, and the reason they have to do this is because if they did not, their entire credibility would be blown.
00:01:17.000What Joe Biden did last Thursday night in that debate was not just a bad debate.
00:01:23.000See, the entire Democratic Party apparatus and the entire legacy media, they were banking on Team Biden, at least providing them plausible deniability
00:01:32.000so they can continue to lie that Joe Biden was basically OK behind closed doors.
00:02:08.000The entire legacy media, they look terrible.
00:02:10.000Their credibility is shot all because Joe Biden insisted to his aides that he was ready and raring to go and that he wanted to debate Donald Trump and that he would take Donald Trump down in one fell swoop.
00:02:22.000And it turns out that listening to the demands of a delusional, senile old man is a really, really bad idea in the middle of a presidential election.
00:02:28.000So, the bottom is starting to fall out of the Joe Biden campaign at this point.
00:02:32.000So, if last Friday I would have said that the chances of Joe Biden dropping out of the race Are 1%, 2%.
00:02:40.000At this point, because donors, Democratic Party honchos, the legacy media, are now openly turning on Joe Biden, I would say that that percentage chance is now rising to 30, 40%.
00:02:52.000Can Joe Biden withstand the rising tsunami of rage inside his own party?
00:02:59.000Now, maybe they figure out a way to get Joe Biden out.
00:03:01.000Maybe they go to Joe and they say to him, listen, if you step out, if you declare you're not going to run again, and you hand this thing over to Kamala Harris, Then we'll find some way to get you a hundred million dollar check.
00:03:11.000We'll find some way to make you exorbitantly wealthy and your family for the rest of time, which is really what the Biden family wants.
00:03:17.000We'll find some way to bribe you to get out.
00:03:20.000We'll build you a beautiful presidential library.
00:03:23.000We'll get all of our mega donors to donate tens of millions of dollars to that thing.
00:03:26.000We'll make the entire Democratic National Convention about the historic achievement of getting rid of Donald Trump and about the magic that you have done as president And then you can give an amazing valedictory speech and walk off into the sunset as a hero of the republic who recognized that he couldn't stop Trump, but he had to step out of the way for someone who could.
00:03:41.000Maybe they're able to convince Joe Biden of that over the course of the next week.
00:03:45.000That obviously is the pitch that they are making behind closed doors to Joe Biden at this point.
00:03:50.000They are making that friendly pitch inside.
00:03:52.000On the outside, the Democratic Party has turned like a snarling dog against the guy who is leading their party.
00:04:00.000It's something I've never seen before in American politics.
00:04:02.000I'm not sure anyone has seen it before in American politics.
00:04:04.000The closest comp might be the Democratic rebellion against Hubert Humphrey as the nominee, the vice president to Lyndon Johnson in 1968 after Johnson stepped out.
00:04:14.000But the reality is that even that is not comparable because Hubert Humphrey was not the sitting president of the United States at the time.
00:04:21.000The sitting president had already declared he wasn't running for re-election.
00:04:24.000Not only that, Joe Biden isn't just the sitting president.
00:04:31.000Now, make no mistake, Donald Trump is starting to pull away in the aftermath of this debate.
00:04:37.000According to a new CNN poll, Donald Trump is now leading Joe Biden nationally by six points.
00:04:42.000Now, that is the same as the results CNN had back in April.
00:04:45.000But here's the thing, even if Joe Biden would argue that the debate hasn't changed the race, if it doesn't change the race, he loses.
00:04:51.000If Joe Biden were to lose the popular vote by six points, this is a historic whooping, the likes of which we probably have not seen in the Republican Party since Ronald Reagan in 1984.
00:04:59.000It's really a disastrous showing for the Democratic Party if he loses 49-43, because there are a lot of states that are within that six-point margin of error.
00:05:10.000That same poll, by the way, shows Trump beating Kamala Harris 47-45.
00:05:14.000And what we're looking at right now is probably the high watermark for Kamala Harris.
00:05:19.000There'll be an attempt, as we'll talk about again in a little bit, to ninth look at Kamala Harris, this thing, to pretend that Kamala Harris actually is wonderful, that she isn't the most annoying person in American politics, that she's not.
00:05:30.000A liar who has failed up every step of her career and backs radical policies and is dishonest and inauthentic.
00:05:36.000There'll be an attempt to sort of massage her into credibility.
00:05:53.000There may be times when you can't get the proper medication because, say, the hospitals are overflowing and CVS is shut down and all of the rest of it because of COVID.
00:08:22.000Those are full-scale disaster Roland Emmerich numbers.
00:08:28.000That is the Earth freezes numbers for Joe Biden.
00:08:31.000And those leaks of polling numbers are being accompanied by new leaks to the New York Times and other friendly publications about just how non-composementist Joe Biden is.
00:08:40.000Now, remember, all of this, these leaks actually undermine the case that the legacy media and Team Biden and the Democratic Party are making, which is that we are shocked, shocked to find that Joe Biden is senile.
00:08:51.000But AIDS are now coming out of the woodwork, and they're trying to protect themselves by saying, listen, we're told to lie, right?
00:09:12.000You have an internal battle between people who want to keep Biden, which is basically just the Biden family at this point, and then everybody else.
00:09:18.000And then you have an internal battle between the Biden aides who are trying to defend their own record here.
00:09:22.000And the Democratic Party and the legacy media, who are trying to claim implausibly that they had no idea that Joe Biden was this bad.
00:09:28.000And the aides who are saying, listen, everybody knew that Joe Biden was this bad.
00:09:36.000That's what the aides are now saying by leaking to the New York Times.
00:09:39.000So, entire piece at the New York Times, Biden's lapses are said to be increasingly common and worrisome.
00:09:45.000According to the New York Times, in the weeks and months before President Biden's politically devastating performance on the debate stage in Atlanta, several current and former officials and others who encountered him behind closed doors noticed he increasingly appeared confused or listless and would lose the thread of conversations.
00:09:59.000Now, wouldn't that have been nice to know, you know, months ago?
00:10:02.000Maybe like before the Democratic primaries.
00:10:17.000And they're really pissed because they feel betrayed by Team Biden, not because Biden is senile.
00:10:23.000They knew the whole time, but they knew also that they would not be exposed because Team Biden for sure would not put that old man in a debate to just basically die on stage.
00:10:33.000Now the New York Times, which is lashing out with the rage of a woman scorned, has this piece.
00:10:38.000Quote, like many people his age, Mr. Biden, 81, has long experienced instances in which he's mangled a sentence, forgot a name, or mixed up a few facts, even though he could be sharp and engaged most of the time.
00:10:46.000But in interviews, people in the room with him more recently said the lapses seem to be growing more frequent, more pronounced, more worrisome.
00:10:53.000The uncomfortable occurrences were not predictable, but seemed more likely when he was in a large crowd or tired after a particularly bruising schedule.
00:10:59.000In the 23 days leading up to the debate against former President Donald Trump, Mr. Biden jetted across the Atlantic twice for meetings with foreign leaders and then flew from Italy to California for a splashy fundraiser, maintaining a grueling pace that exhausted even much younger aides.
00:11:10.000So their excuse now is that Joe Biden got very tired from having been in Europe.
00:11:30.000Biden was drained enough from back-to-back trips to Europe, his team cut his plans-made preparation by two days so he could rest at his home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.
00:11:37.000They made him comfortable before deciding what to do with him, before joining advisors at Camp David for rehearsals.
00:11:42.000The preparations, this is the part that's amazing.
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00:14:15.000We played it on the show of Joe Biden freezing up in the middle of a dancing fest at the White House.
00:14:20.000Or Joe Biden randomly wandering off into the woods at the G7.
00:14:23.000And we were told these were cheap fakes.
00:14:25.000The New York Times ran an entire piece about how this was all out of context nonsense.
00:14:29.000On June 10th, he appeared to freeze up at an early celebration of the Juneteenth holiday.
00:14:34.000On June 18th, his soft-spoken tone and brief struggle to summon the name of his Homeland Security Secretary at an immigration event unnerved some of his allies at the event, who traded alarmed looks and later described themselves as shaken up.
00:14:44.000He's certainly not that way all the time.
00:14:46.000In the days since the debate debacle, aides and others who encountered him, including foreign officials, described him as being in good shape, alert, coherent, capable, engaged in complicated and important discussions, and managing volatile crises.
00:14:56.000They cited example after example in cases where critical national security issues were on the line.
00:15:03.000By the way, their proof that Joe Biden is sane and sentient is him doing the worst thing I have heard him do during his presidency.
00:15:12.000Aides present in the Situation Room the night Iran hurled a barrage of missiles and drones at Israel portrayed a president in commanding form lecturing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by phone to avoid a retaliatory escalation that would have inflamed the Middle East.
00:15:23.000Quote, let me be crystal clear, Biden said, if you launch a big attack on Iran, you're on your own.
00:16:20.000So Axios has a piece called Freaking the F out, turmoil in the White House over Biden.
00:16:25.000Officials on President Biden's White House and campaign staff say they're feeling rage, sadness, frustration, and resolve over his debate performance and his team's response to it.
00:16:33.000More than a dozen White House and campaign aides told Axios, again, the leaks are coming fast and furious.
00:16:38.000It's the first topic of every conversation, one White House official said.
00:16:41.000Senior leadership has given us nothing.
00:16:42.000To act like it's business as usual is delusional.
00:16:48.000A third White House official told Axios, quote, the uncertainty after Thursday is palpable and anxiety is only increasing.
00:16:54.000People are looking for leadership and direction that they were told to trust and hoped was there, but aren't feeling yet in what is now clearly a defining moment for this presidency.
00:17:02.000Many officials feel they are being given talking points with no explanation of why Biden appeared unable to string sentences together or articulate a case for himself over Trump.
00:17:10.000The lack of answers from senior aides has continued this week, leading to growing anger and resentment among many inside the Biden camp.
00:17:18.000Part of Biden's team sees the debate as just one bad night.
00:17:20.000One long time Biden aide is basically going with the, they're all bedwetters line.
00:17:25.000He says, Davos Dems love to hedge their bets against us and get hysterical like they did in 2019.
00:17:29.000And just like in 2020, they'll come back with their DNC convention lanyards in their hands, begging for Christmas party invites and then for a plus one.
00:17:51.000He has a piece titled, How Biden is Losing Hill Dems.
00:17:55.000Hill Democrats are growing increasingly wary of sticking with Biden following his disastrous performance in the Atlanta face-off versus former President Trump.
00:18:02.000The underwhelming response since then from Biden, his campaign operation in the White House, has angered scores of rank-and-file Democrats.
00:18:08.000They've been pressuring their own leadership for more insight into what's happening with the party's standard-bearer just four months out from an election, according to more than a dozen lawmakers and aides.
00:18:15.000This can't just be the Bidens talking among themselves as veteran House Democrat complained Tuesday night.
00:18:19.000This is the presidency we're talking about.
00:18:22.000The crisis is much more immediate for Hill Democrats.
00:18:24.000Every House Democrat has Biden at the top of the ticket in November.
00:18:26.000Senate Democrats running in red states, where Trump will romp to victory, face an even tougher challenge.
00:18:31.000Biden apparently called House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Tuesday night.
00:18:35.000There have also been calls by senior White House officials, including the White House Chief of Staff Jeff Zients and Steve Ricchetti, a top aide.
00:18:41.000Another senior House Democrat said, quote, he needs to start showing and stop telling.
00:18:45.000Otherwise, he'll lose more House Dems.
00:18:47.000The lawmaker said the next wave of Democrats coming out against Biden will be senior members and veteran senators whose opposition could prove fatal to the president's reelect bid.
00:18:54.000They've been shielding him from these types of settings for months, even after it became undeniable they're still lying to us, one Democratic senator said.
00:19:02.000There's a lot of frustration right now in the caucus.
00:19:04.000So, several Democrats have now come out and openly dissociated from Biden, said that he's going to lose.
00:19:14.000The House Democrats apparently had a vent session, according to Axios.
00:19:20.000Axios says a pre-planned meeting of House Democrats focused on the party's political messaging devolved into a grievance fest about President Biden.
00:19:26.000The virtual meeting Tuesday afternoon was a listening session for the Democratic Policy and Communications Committee to go over messaging ahead of the 2024 election.
00:19:34.000Much of the meeting was taken up by members expressing irritation and misgivings toward Biden and his team.
00:19:38.000Again, the number of lawmakers who are freaking out is very, very real.
00:19:50.000Another Axios piece, behind the curtain, Democratic rage at Biden rises, as Jim Vanderhay and Mike Allen reporting.
00:19:55.000They're the two top reporters and founders of Axios.
00:19:59.000Top Democratic lawmakers tell us their matter and more deeply concerned about Biden's denial and deflection than about his bad debate performance itself.
00:20:08.000Some lawmakers want Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries to privately push Biden to step down.
00:20:12.000I don't know he's making decisions, said one House Democrat.
00:20:15.000Why the hell isn't Biden on the phone with congressional leadership?
00:20:17.000Everyone now thinks he could cost us the majority.
00:20:22.000In private, lawmakers are sharing stories of Biden's mental and physical decline.
00:20:27.000Again, what you're starting to see is a collapse inside the Democratic Party.
00:20:50.000I guess the good news when you match him up against Donald Trump is that he hasn't lost any ground from where he was back in April, but he was trailing in April by six points.
00:21:01.000And I think there's, of course, the big question is, could another Democrat do better than Joe Biden against Donald Trump?
00:21:07.000And this new poll says, or at least suggests that Perhaps they could.
00:21:11.000So when I look at polls like this and you see the first call for Joe Biden to get out of the race from a member of Congress on the Democratic side, I don't think polling like this will stop those calls.
00:21:20.000I would only expect them to get louder if polling like this holds in other surveys.
00:21:47.000Representative Jim Clyburn, who's the guy who made Biden president, told Andrea Mitchell of MSNBC that he will support Kamala Harris if Biden were to step aside, which is a crazy statement.
00:21:57.000What he should be saying is there's no chance that Joe Biden will step aside.
00:23:57.000I mean, when Nancy Pelosi is even letting the cat out of the bag that this thing is falling apart, you got a problem.
00:24:03.000Jake Tapper over at CNN reports Democratic governors convened a call to discuss Biden's debate performance, and they want a meeting with the White House to assuage concerns.
00:24:10.000Apparently, on the call, governors expressed surprise none of them had heard from Biden himself.
00:24:14.000Again, there is no way for Joe Biden to assuage these concerns because he is senile.
00:25:51.000Again, Maine is a state that that may, in fact, kind of half go for Trump.
00:25:55.000He's one of the most centrist Democrats in Congress.
00:25:57.000He told Politico, I don't plan to vote for him, but Donald Trump is going to win.
00:26:01.000Unlike Biden and many others, I refuse to participate in a campaign to scare voters with the idea Trump will end our democratic system.
00:26:06.000You might start to see Democrats Some in Purple District starting to kind of conciliate themselves to the possibility that Joe Biden ain't their man because there is just too much of a disaster area at stake for them personally if Joe Biden remains on the ticket.
00:26:22.000Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse.
00:26:23.000He said he was horrified by the debate.
00:26:25.000Again, once you have your entire party basically saying you need to go.
00:26:29.000And this is not, by the way, like when many Republicans in 2016, after Trump had won all the primaries, were like, maybe we can still stop him.
00:26:37.000Like, it wasn't angst about the nominee.
00:26:39.000This is the sitting president of the United States to whom they have all basically pledged fealty, for whom they have all covered up for years.
00:26:47.000And now the dam is breaking and that water is coming through.
00:26:50.000And man, this is, This is looking like... This is looking like the dam at the end of Superman 1.
00:26:58.000Where it starts to collapse and it's about to flood entire villages.
00:27:03.000I think, like a lot of people, I was pretty horrified.
00:27:06.000I think people want to make sure that this is a campaign that's ready to go and win, that the president and his team are being candid with us about his condition, that this was a real anomaly, and not just the way he is these days.
00:27:38.000Every reporter who's been in a room with Joe Biden for two years knows that that dude falls asleep at meetings, that he is reading from notecards.
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00:29:44.000As panic and confusion over President Biden's faltering debate performance swept the ranks of Democratic lawmakers late last week, Senator Manchin informed a few key allies he would soon break from Biden in an interview on a Sunday news show, a high-profile defection that would underscore the president's weakness.
00:29:57.000Democrats feared that Manchin would call for Biden to step aside.
00:30:00.000If he did, the senator would then become the first prominent elected official allied with the party to call for Biden to exit the race.
00:30:07.000Senior Democrats heard of Manchin's plans and started making calls to the independent-minded senator who once used a Sunday show appearance to announce his opposition to Biden's top agenda item and effectively kill it.
00:30:16.000A full court press was quickly assembled to help dissuade Manchin from appearing on the show.
00:30:20.000That effort included a weekend phone call from Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.
00:30:26.000No one wants to be the first one to knife Julius Caesar, one Democratic Party official said.
00:30:58.000He nominated him in an attempt to look somewhat moderate in 2008, and he's been living with that bad decision ever since.
00:31:05.000According to the Washington Post, former President Barack Obama has privately told allies who have reached out to him that President Biden's already tough path to re-election grew more challenging after his shaky debate performance on Thursday, a harsher assessment of the presidential race than his public comments, according to several people familiar with his remarks.
00:31:20.000Obama separately spoke directly with Biden by phone after last Thursday's debate to offer support as a sounding board and private counselor for the embattled former VP.
00:31:30.000But Obama has long harbored worries about his party defeating Donald Trump in November, repeatedly warning Biden in recent months about how challenging it will be to win re-election.
00:31:37.000Just before the debate, Obama conveyed to allies his concerns about the state of the race.
00:31:43.000By the way, there are people who are no longer appearing at fundraisers with the Biden.
00:31:46.000So Joe Biden was supposed to travel to Michigan for a fundraiser.
00:31:49.000Gretchen Whitmer, the governor, not appearing at that fundraiser.
00:31:52.000The rats are fleeing the ship at this point.
00:31:57.000So the only question is how you get rid of the guy.
00:32:04.000So you could see the big donors go to Joe Biden, promise to build him a giant library, give his family a bunch of money, give Hunter some money for his finger paintings and all the rest if he'll just step away and then treat him at the hero at the convention.
00:32:17.000Democratic National Committee member John Zogby, who is on the extreme radical side of the party when it comes to foreign policy particularly, he is now out front about his plan to replace Joe Biden.
00:32:31.000I wonder, though, looking at all of this and where we are, what has transpired over the last several days, do you think this situation could have been avoided?
00:32:49.000He should go out as the person who defeated Donald Trump, who passed significant legislation in his first couple of years before we had a dysfunctional Republican leadership in Congress, and Uh, it would be an opportunity, I think, for him to give a farewell address where he becomes the person who sacrificed ambition for the sake of the country.
00:33:11.000It would be his moment in history where he'd go out, I think, elevated in stature rather than reduced.
00:33:17.000He's going to try and flatter him into doing good luck with this.
00:33:37.000The existential level threat presented by Biden's collapse to the legacy media which stapled themselves to Barack Obama's ass cheeks in 2008 and have not been able to separate themselves off from the Democratic Party ever since.
00:33:50.000And now they can ride this bomb all the way down to the ground like Rip Torn and Dr. Strangelove.
00:33:56.000That is their choice, or they can separate off.
00:33:58.000And it's pretty clear they would like to, you know, preserve themselves at this point after having lied for years on behalf of Joe Biden.
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00:34:38.000Okay, meanwhile... So, remember, this isn't just a humiliating story for the Democrats right now, it is a complete, utter humiliation for the media.
00:34:46.000Because, basically, the media now have to pretend to be just as surprised as the small child When he sees the naked emperor except that the media have been in the back rooms with the naked emperor for like several years at this point.
00:34:59.000They knew he was naked from the get-go and then they only got pants when it turns out that he decided to walk full out in public with his balls dangling.
00:35:07.000Like that's that's really what happened here.
00:35:08.000This is the emperor's new clothes except the media were like the the people who were the tailors.
00:35:12.000They were the tailors who didn't give him clothes and helped cover up for the fact that he had no clothes and lied to him that he did have clothes and then when he walks out stark naked And the entire American public is now the child going, that dude's naked.
00:35:33.000Jill Abramson, who used to be, at one point, an editor for the New York Times.
00:35:38.000She was executive editor of the New York Times from 2011 to 2014.
00:35:41.000She's speaking with Semaphore's Ben Smith, quote, it's clear the best news reporters in Washington have failed in the first duty of journalism, to hold power accountable.
00:35:49.000It is our duty to poke through White House smoke screens and find out the truth.
00:35:52.000The Biden White House clearly succeeded in a massive cover-up Obviously, the president's decline was a super hard story to report, even by those who wanted to get it, like the Wall Street Journal.
00:36:09.000Their story did not deliver, using mostly unnamed GOP sources.
00:36:13.000But I do think if enough reporters had pushed, the story was reportable.
00:36:16.000I worry too many journalists didn't try to get the story, because they did not want to be accused of helping elect Donald Trump.
00:38:00.000Man, these people, if you have one ounce of trust in the legacy media at this point, and very few people do, the polling numbers show about 30% of Americans say they trust the legacy media.
00:38:09.000If you are one of those 30%, pull your head out of your rectum, man, because this is wild.
00:38:14.000She says, this is no excuse for abandoning our first duty, which is to report the truth and
00:38:18.000hold power accountable. President Biden should be held accountable for his obvious lapses of
00:38:22.000mental acuity, even if there are periods of lucidity. I mean, even if there are periods
00:38:26.000of lucidity. I mean, you mean as long like why would that even be questionable?
00:38:33.000At this point Joe Biden's periods of lucidity look like the moment of lucidity that people have when they are dying.
00:38:38.000They're on their deathbed and they've been senile for years and suddenly they recognize their wife in the 10 seconds before they pass.
00:38:43.000That's what Joe Biden looks like right now.
00:38:45.000It is simply astounding for the entire country, including its most seasoned reporters, to be as shocked as everyone was by the ugly and painful reality of Biden's debate performance.
00:38:52.000And it is laughable and immoral for Democrats to blame the press now for overreacting to that reality.
00:38:56.000The reports of how bad Biden was are certainly not exaggerated, nor are reports of Democrats in panic.
00:39:01.000Again, that was the executive editor of the New York Times from 2011 to 2014 saying all the things.
00:39:21.000So that means that every press conference from here on in, this is why it's gonna be so rough for Biden.
00:39:25.000Democrats are already coming out of the woodwork and saying he shouldn't be the nominee.
00:39:29.000Meanwhile, the press, who have been his praetorian guard for his entire modern career, covering up for every one of his flubs, every one of his excesses, his family's corruption, his senility, now, in order to preserve themselves, they have to separate off the dying carcass of the whale.
00:39:45.000So yesterday, Corine Jean-Pierre held her most brutal press conference, which is saying a lot since she's the worst press secretary in modern history.
00:39:53.000The real point of this press conference yesterday is not Karine Jean-Pierre's answer.
00:40:05.000Karine Jean-Pierre is, to the Press Secretary's position, what Kamala Harris is to the Vice Presidency, namely a DEI pick who is terrible at her job.
00:40:11.000In any case, Karine Jean-Pierre, this press conference is not about KJP.
00:40:15.000This press conference is about the reporters.
00:40:19.000So listen to the reporters pretending their ire at having been shocked, shocked by the Emperor's nudity.
00:40:26.000She was lying about how many pressers Biden has done.
00:40:29.000It's the questions that really matter in these things.
00:40:32.000We've seen some real anger expressed by donors and Democratic officials, sort of how you guys have handled the President, shielding him away from impromptu settings, whether it's press conferences or interviews or, you know, just being out in public.
00:40:48.000This year, the President has done more than 40 interviews.
00:42:05.000Almost as though there's a self-interested aspect to all of this.
00:42:08.000Karine Jean-Pierre tried to assure the press that behind closed doors, once again, he's doing back handsprings and solving for the Big Bang.
00:42:19.000How do you reconcile those two versions of a president?
00:42:25.000One who appeared the way they did to millions of people and the other who appears always to be, you know, sort of very forceful and not have any of those I mean, look, the president spoke to this.
00:42:44.000There has been also many instances where the president has really showed his strength and resolute that all of you have seen and commented about it.
00:43:28.000Meanwhile, one reporter asked Corine Jean-Pierre about the fact that Joe Biden looks like, you know, you're visiting your elderly grandparents.
00:43:36.000I just think the question, you know, it's about the way we look at our elderly parents and grandparents.
00:43:43.000It's, you know, you maybe visit them once a year and you see troubling signs because you don't live in the same city, perhaps.
00:43:52.000And the first question that you go to is, hmm, I wonder if this is like a one-time thing or if it's something that has been happening for a longer time that we need to deal with.
00:44:03.000And the second question is, You're going multiple times.
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00:46:06.000So here is the problem for Team Biden.
00:46:09.000They've lost the media because the media are humiliated.
00:46:11.000They've lost many top members of the Democratic Party because they too are humiliated with their own constituents and they're looking at the polling numbers and they are freaking the F out.
00:46:35.000Which is why he enabled his crackhead son to run around the world picking up sacks of cash while schtupping prostitutes and doing blow-off hooker's asses.
00:46:40.000That's how much Joe Biden loves his family.
00:46:42.000Joe Biden loves his family so much that Ashley Biden has some pretty creepy passages in her diary.
00:46:48.000He loves his family so much That he basically has enabled them for 50 years to make a buck on his name.
00:46:56.000Well, every so often stopping by a business meeting and dropping a wink and an odd.
00:47:00.000That's how much Joe Biden loves his family.
00:47:01.000So why wouldn't the Biden family want him to stay?
00:47:03.000The minute Joe Biden steps out of this race, they are irrelevant.
00:47:08.000Dr. Jill Biden would not be president of the United States anymore.
00:47:12.000And that'd be sad for her, considering she's never been elected to any public office, nor would anyone in their right mind ever vote for her for any public office.
00:47:20.000But you should understand right now, the two top voices in America, forget about in the White House, in America, the two most important voices are Dr. Jill Biden, she, of the all-powerful Ed degree, and Hunter Biden, a man whose judgment was so poor that he left a computer filled with pornography, drug use, and criminal activity at a computer repair shop because he was so high.
00:47:44.000And that was about the time that he was stooping his dead brother's wife.
00:47:49.000Those are the top advisors to Joe Biden.
00:47:52.000Remember that time that Hunter was like super far away from Joe?
00:47:54.000I remember the media reported that too.
00:47:55.000They said that, you know, Hunter's kind of on the outskirts.
00:47:57.000Sure, he loves Joe and Joe loves him, but it's not like he has any impact on policy.
00:48:01.000Well, now Joe Biden's meetings are featuring Hunter.
00:48:05.000Hunter is going to White House meetings.
00:48:08.000According to Mediaite and NBC News, this is NBC News, quote, one of the people familiar with the matter said Hunter Biden has been closely advising his father since the family gathered this past weekend at Camp David.
00:48:18.000This person said Hunter has popped into a couple of meetings and phone calls the president has had with some of his advisors.
00:48:23.000Another person familiar with the matter said the reaction from some senior White House staff has been, what the hell is happening?
00:49:12.000He's so not senile that he's relying deeply on the advice of the former crack addict, absolutely insane son who knocks up strippers and gets convicted for federal gun charges.
00:51:19.000Other members of the family, super into Joe Biden reigning president.
00:51:22.000Also, Val Biden, who made her bones by campaign managing Joe Biden's multiple failures.
00:51:28.000According to the Wall Street Journal, until the president sought the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, his sister had managed his political campaigns dating back to 1970.
00:51:36.000When Biden pursued the presidency in 2020, she had some misgivings.
00:51:39.000She worried Trump would target their family, including Hunter.
00:51:43.000But she said she wants her brother to seek re-election.
00:51:44.000quote, I think my brother is the right person at the right time for all the right reasons.
00:51:48.000Meanwhile, Hunter is very pro him staying in the race, of course. I mean, it's just, it's pathetic.
00:52:04.000The attempt by the press to spin the Biden family into the Waltons is, again, one of the great con jobs in the history of American media coverage.
00:52:13.000So what is the way that Joe Biden is going to try and right this ship?
00:52:17.000So he's going to first speak with Democratic governors for the first time since the disastrous debate, apparently.
00:52:22.000CBS News reports a meeting is now planned for today, with some planning to attend in person and some virtually.
00:52:29.000Can we just say it's probably not going to go all that well?
00:52:32.000Meanwhile, they have now planned a big interview with, wait for it, a really unfriendly face, George Stephanopoulos.
00:52:41.000So, suffice it to say that George Stephanopoulos has in the past been a very, very solid massage artist with regards to President Joe Biden.
00:52:50.000This interview will not air live, which is not going to quiet any complaints.
00:52:56.000They'll just have like a bunch of quick cuts and some answers that make him appear semi-lucid.
00:53:01.000They can always cut the cameras if he starts to fall asleep.
00:53:03.000Now, you could see a world where George Stephanopoulos picking up on the momentum in the media and the Democratic Party really shivs Biden.
00:54:24.000The idea that somehow there's a way to have gotten out without chaos ensuing, I don't know how that happens.
00:54:33.000Okay, so even Stephanopoulos trying to massage Biden at that point was bad.
00:54:36.000So we'll see what kind of work he, I mean, this is, this is the Biden campaign going to Bona Sera and saying, you did a, once I did a favor for you and now make my boy look presentable for his mother.
00:54:50.000That's where, that's where we are right now in the, in the Biden campaign.
00:54:54.000Biden campaign spokesperson was asked yesterday.
00:54:57.000About when Joe Biden would do, you know, live interviews.
00:55:00.000She's like, well, he is doing a prescripted speech on climate if that'll do.
00:55:16.000I know the campaign, according to our reporting, is considering more unscripted events for the president, potentially a big sit-down interview, potentially a press conference.
00:55:25.000There is a difference with those events.
00:55:28.000When will we see the president do that?
00:55:30.000Well, first of all, the president is speaking from the White House today about climate, a very important issue that he has been historic on when it comes to passing historic climate change legislation.
00:55:39.000You're going to see him out on the campaign trail, of course, in the coming days, in the coming weeks.
00:55:44.000We're going to continue to get him out there to go to battleground states to really make it clear what's at stake in this election.
00:55:50.000He's going to continue to go to these states, talk to voters, have these conversations.
00:56:25.000So you had first look at Kamala Harris, and that was back in 2020 when she was running for the presidency.
00:56:30.000She had a hot moment on the debate stage where she called Joe Biden a racist and maybe a And then she quickly fell off because it turns out she's an incompetent campaigner, totally inauthentic, utterly charmless, and super annoying.
00:56:42.000And so she didn't even make it to her California primary.
00:58:32.000And now, because Joe Biden may have to step down, because he might be forced out, because they might bribe him to get out, now, they're like, maybe it's time for 112th look at Kamala Harris.
00:58:43.000You know, maybe we missed it the first 111 times.
00:59:00.000When VP Kamala Harris's staff held their usual Monday staff meeting this week, Chief of Staff Lorraine Volz kicked it off with a clear message.
00:59:06.000Harris is supporting Joe Biden, Volz told them, emphasizing there would be no tolerance for engaging in Plan B parlor games that had dominated Democratic politics in the days since Biden's disastrous debate.
00:59:18.000And yet, for the first time in years, Harris seems to be having a genuine moment, fueled by speculation that she, not Biden, would be the more competitive nominee.
00:59:25.000Now, that has nothing to do with Kamala Harris.
00:59:27.000That has to do with the fact that Joe Biden is a corpse, and you can't run a corpse.
00:59:31.000So basically, the math is, do we run this unbelievably unpopular vice president or the corpse?
00:59:45.000What's clear is the strange new respect developed without any nudge from Harris herself, who at every turn since Thursday's debate has defended Biden and batted away questions about a bailout.
01:00:02.000You think all the leaks coming out of the White House have nothing to do with Kamala Harris?
01:00:05.000Kamala Harris in the conservatory with the lead pipe.
01:00:09.000Kamala Harris, the leaks that are flowing out of Kamala Harris, they flow like wine from Bacchus.
01:00:16.000You think that she's sitting there doing nothing?
01:00:19.000Kamala Harris has two jobs, be inauthentic and leak.
01:00:23.000And she's all out of inauthentic, gang.
01:00:26.000She's leaking like crazy because if that knife finds its way between Joe Biden's shoulder blades, then she gets to be president without ever having been good at anything.
01:00:48.000That is how she originally got her start in politics in California.
01:00:52.000So Democrats are trying to rely on polling surrounding Harris.
01:01:05.000Harris beats Trump by 29 points with people of color versus 21 points for Joe Biden.
01:01:10.000Now, I should point out here that even a 29 point gap on quote-unquote people of color means that Biden probably loses or Harris probably loses if she's the nominee.
01:01:18.000Biden loses independent voters by 10 points, per CNN.
01:01:34.000Now, the advantage for Harris, over any other candidate in the Democratic Party, of course, is that all the money in the Biden-Harris campaign is transferable to Harris if Biden steps out.
01:01:41.000If it were to be somebody else, like Whitmer, or Newsom, or even Michelle Obama, they'd have to raise the money afresh.
01:01:49.000She'd talk a lot about abortion, I'm sure.
01:02:17.000Top Democratic consultants debated Wednesday, according to Semaphore, before an audience of large Democratic donors, whether they could push Joe Biden out, and whether Vice President Kamala Harris would be worse than a comatose or dead Biden.
01:02:30.000The fact that that's even a debate, you know how insulting that is?
01:02:33.000Imagine that you're up for a raise at your job, and they're like, well, you know, over here's old Bob.
01:02:48.000Would that make you feel good on your insides?
01:02:50.000I'm sure Kamala Harris is feeling real good these days.
01:02:53.000One advisor to the Biden team, Dmitry Melhorn, who's linked with major Democratic donor Reid Hoffman, he says, quote, Kamala Harris is more threatening to swing voters than a dead Joe Biden or a comatose Joe Biden.
01:03:10.000So if Joe has to go, it's going to be Kamala.
01:03:12.000And if it's Kamala, it's going to be even harder.