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Speaker 1: Ever duplicy, Ellen, you know what surprised me the most

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Speaker 1: about Joe Biden quitting this morning. And it's obviously not

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Speaker 1: that he's quit, because that was entirely predictable, wasn't it,

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Speaker 1: And that obviously needed to happen. What surprised me is

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Speaker 1: that he's been so bloody badly behaved about it. I mean,

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Speaker 1: first of all, obviously it should not have taken him

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Speaker 1: more than three weeks to quit. It should have been

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Speaker 1: obvious to him immediately after the debate that the thing

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Speaker 1: was probably not survivable. But if you give him the

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Speaker 1: benefit of the doubt and you say, okay, he at

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Speaker 1: least deserved to try to fight, to be able to

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Speaker 1: stay fair enough, Come on, when George Clooney and Barack

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Speaker 1: Obama and Nancy Pelosi made it really obvious around about

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Speaker 1: two weeks ago that they did not back him, Surely

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Speaker 1: at that point he should have seen the writing was

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Speaker 1: on the wall and pulled out. But no, he decided

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Speaker 1: to dig his heels in and drag the thing on.

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Speaker 1: And then today to endorse Karmala Harris on his way

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Speaker 1: out just feels really bratty from him. He should not

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Speaker 1: have done that. I mean, it's really obvious. For a start,

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Speaker 1: she's going to struggle to beat Trump. She's one of

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Speaker 1: the most unpopular vice presidents in a long time, if

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Speaker 1: not in history. But he must know that, right and

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Speaker 1: and he does because he's privately expressed that sentiment according

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Speaker 1: to reports, which apparently is part of the reason why

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Speaker 1: he wanted to stay there. But set that to one side.

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Speaker 1: He should not have endorsed her because clearly other senior

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Speaker 1: Democrats did not want her to be endorsed by him.

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Speaker 1: They did not want her to be anointed like this.

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Speaker 1: Neither and this says a lot, neither Barack Obama nor

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Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosi have endorsed her yet. And it's been a

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Speaker 1: number of hours. So it feels like, I mean, and

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Speaker 1: he knew that because that was expressed to him. That's

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Speaker 1: been all over the papers, So it feels like he's

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Speaker 1: just given them a massive middle finger, possibly in retaliation

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Speaker 1: for forcing him out. Now he's entitled to do that

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Speaker 1: if he wants to be a brat, But what he's

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Speaker 1: done is he's laid out for all of us to

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Speaker 1: see how divided and shambolic the Democrats are right now.

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Speaker 1: I am sure that there would have been a lot

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Speaker 1: of people in the Democrats who would have hoped that

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Speaker 1: the division would end the minute that Joe Biden stepped down,

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Speaker 1: right steps down, finally put the thing to rest, get

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Speaker 1: on with it and try to find the next person.

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Speaker 1: But what he's done by endorsing Karmala Howrus is he's

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Speaker 1: just made sure that this goes on for potentially weeks

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Speaker 1: until the party's national convention next month. Now, people have

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Speaker 1: made a lot of Joe Biden in the last few hours.

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Speaker 1: That sung is praise, that hero worshiped, and the said

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Speaker 1: he's been the best president that they can remember in

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Speaker 1: their lifetimes. Whatever, he's just demonstrated what a brat he

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