WEBVTT - Breaking News: 2024 Presidential Race Update 0:00:02.759 --> 0:00:08.320 Hey, folks, that debate was just twenty four days ago, 0:00:09.000 --> 0:00:12.920 and just like that, now Joe Biden is out of 0:00:13.119 --> 0:00:16.759 the race. Welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ. Robes. 0:00:16.880 --> 0:00:19.720 It was not that long ago. How much has happened 0:00:19.760 --> 0:00:22.880 in three weeks and a couple of days. Joe Biden 0:00:23.040 --> 0:00:24.640 will not be seeking a second term. 0:00:25.000 --> 0:00:27.920 And it was shockingly shocking. 0:00:28.120 --> 0:00:30.400 I think maybe that's the best way to describe it, 0:00:30.440 --> 0:00:33.360 because I think a lot of people, if you were 0:00:33.520 --> 0:00:35.920 following any of the news, we're anticipating this as we 0:00:35.960 --> 0:00:41.040 saw more and more Democrats publicly privately leaked by sources 0:00:41.600 --> 0:00:44.199 asking the president to step aside for the good of 0:00:44.240 --> 0:00:46.960 the party, and so we were all kind of waiting, 0:00:47.000 --> 0:00:50.720 and yet still when the news came on Sunday one 0:00:51.080 --> 0:00:54.040 forty five or so Eastern time, it seemed to have 0:00:54.160 --> 0:00:55.880 caught everyone off guard. 0:00:56.320 --> 0:00:59.000 Well they had to. I mean, can you imagine everything 0:00:59.080 --> 0:01:01.280 leaks these days. Imagine what they were doing trying to 0:01:01.360 --> 0:01:05.760 keep this quiet. But he had some of his aids, 0:01:06.800 --> 0:01:10.120 not just surrogates, some of his aids out there on 0:01:10.160 --> 0:01:14.000 television just this weekend, almost pounding the table of He's 0:01:14.120 --> 0:01:17.679 not going anywhere, which you're hearing nope, he's full steam ahead. 0:01:18.120 --> 0:01:19.800 So some of that and then some of the writing 0:01:19.840 --> 0:01:20.959 was on the wall and a lot of people were 0:01:20.959 --> 0:01:23.640 saying he had to make a decision this weekend, just 0:01:23.680 --> 0:01:25.600 the timing of some things that are coming up that 0:01:25.640 --> 0:01:29.040 we'll get into. But still, you're right, that's a good 0:01:29.080 --> 0:01:30.960 way you put it. At the top, it was shockingly 0:01:31.000 --> 0:01:32.680 like why are we shocked by this? But still it 0:01:32.840 --> 0:01:34.720 just a jolt that he's not in this race anymore. 0:01:34.760 --> 0:01:38.000 We got the news and quickly turned on the TV 0:01:38.400 --> 0:01:42.280 and we were actually another I think good way to 0:01:42.319 --> 0:01:44.000 look at it, why it was so shocking or just 0:01:44.080 --> 0:01:46.440 that it was that is it seems that the networks 0:01:46.440 --> 0:01:47.120 weren't prepared. 0:01:47.520 --> 0:01:49.440 You know, normally, this is a cat. 0:01:49.600 --> 0:01:53.240 This is a huge, probably the biggest political story that 0:01:53.560 --> 0:01:56.520 many of these political reporters have ever followed or covered. 0:01:56.760 --> 0:02:00.320 So when a big story is dropping like this, you know, 0:02:00.400 --> 0:02:03.040 the big guns, all the big three network you know, 0:02:03.160 --> 0:02:06.360 the anchors, they rushed to the studios and they get 0:02:06.400 --> 0:02:08.720 in place and they take over the coverage because this 0:02:08.840 --> 0:02:09.240 is huge. 0:02:09.360 --> 0:02:12.400 This is what journalists live for, these types of stories. 0:02:12.440 --> 0:02:14.840 And when we turned on to each one of the networks, 0:02:15.840 --> 0:02:18.360 none of the network stars were in place. 0:02:18.480 --> 0:02:19.519 No one was ready. 0:02:19.639 --> 0:02:21.919 And that's not and again this is not a criticism 0:02:21.960 --> 0:02:25.120 we're making it, but an observation being where we were from. 0:02:25.120 --> 0:02:28.760 This is the biggest story of the year, and there 0:02:28.880 --> 0:02:31.519 is some potential. You can say there's some top five 0:02:31.560 --> 0:02:34.840 candidates out there, but this is absolutely one will be 0:02:34.880 --> 0:02:37.639 one of the biggest. And it hit and we did. 0:02:37.760 --> 0:02:41.760 We went through every single network looking and no one 0:02:41.919 --> 0:02:44.400 had I don't even want to say a B team 0:02:44.440 --> 0:02:46.960 type of situation, but you know who the network stars are, 0:02:47.000 --> 0:02:49.600 and it looks like folks weren't in place, and then 0:02:49.600 --> 0:02:52.800 for hours and hours they weren't ready, still weren't in place. 0:02:52.880 --> 0:02:55.000 But for Americans keeping on with the news, don't know 0:02:55.040 --> 0:02:58.000 if that matters, but that was our observation at the time. 0:02:58.040 --> 0:03:01.760 But this it didn't seem like we were on standby, 0:03:01.840 --> 0:03:03.919 if you will, for this news to come. 0:03:03.919 --> 0:03:06.840 And you know, you always wonder how this news will come. 0:03:06.919 --> 0:03:09.799 And so for the president to choose x formally known 0:03:09.840 --> 0:03:12.360 as Twitter, that also, I think shook. 0:03:12.120 --> 0:03:12.959 A lot of people too. 0:03:13.040 --> 0:03:15.360 And he had he posted the letter that he wrote 0:03:15.400 --> 0:03:18.440 to the American people saying that he will address it 0:03:18.480 --> 0:03:21.160 publicly in a speech later this week, so we can 0:03:21.200 --> 0:03:24.880 anticipate that, but it was an unusual way to even 0:03:24.960 --> 0:03:27.200 release the news that he was dropping out of the 0:03:27.200 --> 0:03:28.080 presidential race. 0:03:28.360 --> 0:03:31.960 I can't imagine what that was like. And when we 0:03:32.000 --> 0:03:36.320 got the news, I felt, I don't know, it was 0:03:36.320 --> 0:03:40.560 almost a air came out, as if I felt a 0:03:40.600 --> 0:03:44.800 little deflated, but almost a sigh of relief for him. 0:03:44.840 --> 0:03:47.560 To a certain degree, every move he made over the 0:03:47.600 --> 0:03:51.520 past three weeks was scrutinized as he's an old man 0:03:51.560 --> 0:03:54.760 and his mind isn't sharp, So I hate this is 0:03:54.800 --> 0:03:57.040 a guy who has fifty years in public office and 0:03:57.080 --> 0:04:00.480 public service. You don't want them to go out this way. 0:04:00.520 --> 0:04:02.240 But maybe it could have been worse down the road, 0:04:02.400 --> 0:04:04.920 who knows, But just you hate it for the guy, 0:04:05.000 --> 0:04:07.280 for his family. Who knows what was You can only 0:04:07.280 --> 0:04:08.360 imagine behind the scenes. 0:04:08.440 --> 0:04:12.200 It was sad because he obviously then went on a 0:04:12.240 --> 0:04:16.600 pr campaign, being interviewed by all the major networks, and 0:04:16.800 --> 0:04:19.000 it just didn't do anything to move the needle. And 0:04:19.040 --> 0:04:22.000 in fact, anyone's on social media, you can see the 0:04:22.120 --> 0:04:25.640 memes that had been made by even some of those interviews, 0:04:25.640 --> 0:04:27.840 and so it's just got to be excruciating. Again, as 0:04:27.839 --> 0:04:31.480 you point out, with his fifty years of service, his 0:04:31.560 --> 0:04:34.240 dedication to this country. You know, you want to go 0:04:34.320 --> 0:04:37.000 out on top of this one stings a lot, and 0:04:37.560 --> 0:04:39.279 you know he wanted to fight the fight, but it 0:04:39.480 --> 0:04:42.479 just he knew a certain point, he just didn't have 0:04:42.520 --> 0:04:43.000 the support. 0:04:43.720 --> 0:04:46.800 I didn't have the support. I mean, his statements didn't 0:04:46.800 --> 0:04:49.039 say anything. I mean his statement goes I think a 0:04:49.040 --> 0:04:52.960 couple of paragraphs in depth about his accomplishments before he 0:04:53.000 --> 0:04:56.800 says it's right for me to step aside. But they 0:04:56.839 --> 0:05:00.440 were arguing for the past couple of weeks, certainly that 0:05:00.520 --> 0:05:02.400 this guy is sharp and he was ready and he's 0:05:02.400 --> 0:05:04.840 a fighter. And President Obama put out a statement saying, 0:05:04.839 --> 0:05:06.839 this is what this guy does. He fights, and I 0:05:06.839 --> 0:05:10.080 can't imagine what this process was like for him, because 0:05:10.080 --> 0:05:12.440 that's where we know Joe always He's been getting hit 0:05:12.480 --> 0:05:15.120 his whole life, hasn't he And he keeps getting up 0:05:15.200 --> 0:05:17.440 and this is I don't know, this is just one 0:05:17.440 --> 0:05:18.200 he couldn't overcome. 0:05:18.200 --> 0:05:20.320 My guy, Yeah, and I think you could look at 0:05:20.320 --> 0:05:22.760 it as the brave thing to do, the right thing 0:05:22.839 --> 0:05:27.200 to do, was to step aside. And then he thirty 0:05:27.240 --> 0:05:30.360 minutes after the original statement that was put out, he 0:05:30.400 --> 0:05:36.320 then decided to formally and officially endorse his vice president 0:05:36.400 --> 0:05:40.840 to Kamala Harris. And so that was another big, big 0:05:40.880 --> 0:05:44.200 headline that everyone jumped on. And so we heard then 0:05:44.279 --> 0:05:47.719 from the Glintons and from you know, so you're starting 0:05:47.720 --> 0:05:51.000 to see prominent Democrats now come out and endorse Kamala Harris. 0:05:51.000 --> 0:05:54.360 But that does not mean that she is going to 0:05:54.440 --> 0:05:57.080 be the Democratic nominee. There are a lot of ifs 0:05:57.080 --> 0:05:59.480 and what ifs and what may happen. There isn't really 0:05:59.520 --> 0:06:00.360 precedent for this. 0:06:00.880 --> 0:06:05.760 It's and here we go, right, you have some Republicans 0:06:05.800 --> 0:06:08.599 already now calling for they want President Biden to resign, 0:06:08.839 --> 0:06:11.200 right if you can't continue to be a candidate. So 0:06:11.279 --> 0:06:16.200 that's that you throw that into the mix of Now 0:06:16.279 --> 0:06:18.200 Democrats are they going to coalesce? Are they going to 0:06:18.279 --> 0:06:21.359 come together now around one candidate and not make this 0:06:21.440 --> 0:06:23.760 a competition because it could become a competition. And the 0:06:23.800 --> 0:06:28.039 Clinton's endorsed. But President Obama and his statement seem to 0:06:28.920 --> 0:06:31.560 well he didn't endorse for sure, but he seemed to 0:06:31.600 --> 0:06:34.039 suggest that the Democratic Party is now about to put 0:06:34.040 --> 0:06:37.760 together a fair process moving forward. So that made a 0:06:37.800 --> 0:06:41.880 few eyebrows go up. Is this president calling for a 0:06:41.920 --> 0:06:45.720 fair convention, and is this one over here saying hey, 0:06:45.800 --> 0:06:47.000 let's just all get behind. 0:06:46.800 --> 0:06:50.279 Because right because, and we can find out which direction 0:06:50.720 --> 0:06:53.840 the Democrats are headed in within a pretty quick period 0:06:53.839 --> 0:06:57.479 of time, because they have what's called a virtual role call, 0:06:57.720 --> 0:07:00.560 and right now it's scheduled for early August. 0:07:00.560 --> 0:07:02.159 Where what don't you say right now? 0:07:02.240 --> 0:07:04.640 Yeah, because everything could change. We know that. 0:07:04.680 --> 0:07:07.360 And in fact, actually it's interesting we already know and 0:07:07.520 --> 0:07:09.479 these types of headlines will keep rolling in that the 0:07:09.480 --> 0:07:13.360 Tennessee delegation has already chosen to vote for Kamala Harris, 0:07:13.400 --> 0:07:16.200 but there is an actual virtual roll call that takes 0:07:16.240 --> 0:07:19.200 place where the delegates from each state then put in 0:07:19.280 --> 0:07:21.880 their votes, and so that could be, you know, an 0:07:21.880 --> 0:07:24.160 indication of where we're headed. They could also wait until 0:07:24.160 --> 0:07:28.840 the convention in Chicago, which is August nineteenth, it begins then, 0:07:29.080 --> 0:07:31.880 and actually go through a process like they did back 0:07:31.880 --> 0:07:35.240 in the olden days, where that is how they elected 0:07:35.600 --> 0:07:36.520 their nominee. 0:07:36.880 --> 0:07:39.800 We don't want that now, I say, we don't want 0:07:39.800 --> 0:07:45.160 that as a It's great theater, right, but it's been 0:07:45.240 --> 0:07:49.560 such a chaotic time. I would love to be honest 0:07:49.560 --> 0:07:51.240 with you, I would love to just see, because we've 0:07:51.240 --> 0:07:53.560 never had anything like that in our lifetimes, and that's 0:07:53.600 --> 0:07:56.520 how they used to do it. But that is the 0:07:56.560 --> 0:07:58.680 process you described. So any of you out there who 0:07:58.720 --> 0:08:01.000 went and voted for Joe by and in the primary 0:08:02.920 --> 0:08:06.000 he earned all of those delegates, well all those delegates 0:08:06.040 --> 0:08:10.080 now are up for grabs to anybody, and he can't 0:08:10.120 --> 0:08:14.000 tell anybody what to do. So everybody has a choice 0:08:14.040 --> 0:08:16.080 of what they can do and where they're going to vote, 0:08:16.480 --> 0:08:21.280 so they can all come together around Kamala, Harris or Robes. 0:08:22.720 --> 0:08:24.760 Is anybody else going to get in the race because 0:08:24.760 --> 0:08:28.120 they can't. 0:08:33.960 --> 0:08:37.840 No one has officially, but there are already names being 0:08:37.880 --> 0:08:42.559 floated out there for potential other nominees. 0:08:42.960 --> 0:08:45.880 Okay, to say the top two, I think we're thinking 0:08:45.880 --> 0:08:46.280 about the. 0:08:46.200 --> 0:08:49.320 Same Governor Gavin Newsom, of course, who by the way, 0:08:49.520 --> 0:08:53.679 said before this process started that he had sub zero interest, I. 0:08:53.640 --> 0:08:56.000 Believe was the phrase he used in running for president. 0:08:56.080 --> 0:08:58.200 So that means he's thinking about it, right, It means. 0:08:57.960 --> 0:08:58.800 That the door's open. 0:08:59.400 --> 0:09:01.400 And then the other one that caught my eye was 0:09:01.400 --> 0:09:04.080 Governor Gretchen Whitmer from Michigan. 0:09:04.160 --> 0:09:04.679 Those are two. 0:09:04.920 --> 0:09:06.560 Those are the two, and you know there are some 0:09:06.600 --> 0:09:10.840 prominent governors throughout the States. But yes, if you google this, 0:09:10.960 --> 0:09:13.760 there are already there's probably a growing list of seven 0:09:13.960 --> 0:09:18.560 folks that could potentially be in competition with Vice President 0:09:18.640 --> 0:09:19.320 Kamala Harris. 0:09:19.360 --> 0:09:20.840 But you know, I mean she was. 0:09:21.000 --> 0:09:24.080 You could make the argument a part of the ticket 0:09:24.360 --> 0:09:28.160 that won that nomination Farren Square and so that you know, 0:09:28.520 --> 0:09:31.160 there's a big argument that that should be considered or 0:09:31.200 --> 0:09:32.920 at least be a part of it. And this is 0:09:33.480 --> 0:09:35.000 a woman who has had a lot of first the 0:09:35.040 --> 0:09:38.600 first female vice president, but she would be the first 0:09:38.640 --> 0:09:41.600 black woman and the first Asian American to lead a 0:09:41.640 --> 0:09:44.360 ticket of any major political party. 0:09:44.400 --> 0:09:46.800 And that's huge, That's history, and. 0:09:47.160 --> 0:09:49.240 That is where a lot of people are arguing she 0:09:49.520 --> 0:09:52.360 can at least motivate the base in a way that 0:09:52.480 --> 0:09:55.520 maybe Joe Biden could not. Thus, others will say, you 0:09:55.600 --> 0:09:57.960 will there's some downsides to her as well, as they 0:09:58.000 --> 0:10:01.720 show in their polling. The argument now, it seems like 0:10:01.840 --> 0:10:04.840 Democrats wouldn't have the stomach for a fight, a big 0:10:04.880 --> 0:10:07.960 convention fight, or or anybody trying to take on Kamala Harris, 0:10:08.120 --> 0:10:10.800 or for the party to have the appearance of we 0:10:10.920 --> 0:10:13.559 have this woman of color as VP. She's next in line, 0:10:14.040 --> 0:10:16.800 and we're going to try to skip over her US 0:10:16.960 --> 0:10:20.840 the Democrat. That's not a good look. But it doesn't 0:10:20.880 --> 0:10:23.280 look good either if you just anoint her. And if 0:10:23.280 --> 0:10:25.800 it doesn't look like you have an open process, how 0:10:25.800 --> 0:10:27.080 are they going to find that balance? 0:10:27.160 --> 0:10:29.840 Yeah, and I wonder how much you know, And obviously 0:10:29.880 --> 0:10:32.240 Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton are two different people. But 0:10:32.280 --> 0:10:35.520 the last time a woman went up against President Trump 0:10:35.520 --> 0:10:38.559 in a presidential race, the only time that's happened, you know. 0:10:38.760 --> 0:10:40.079 Trump won the delegates. 0:10:40.120 --> 0:10:41.840 Of course we should point out Hillary Clinton did win 0:10:41.880 --> 0:10:44.080 the popular vote, but you know, I don't know if 0:10:44.080 --> 0:10:46.560 they're looking at that too. There's always a concern about 0:10:46.600 --> 0:10:50.640 can a woman beat Trump? And the polling now. 0:10:51.800 --> 0:10:54.679 Doesn't look you know that as it stands now. I 0:10:54.679 --> 0:10:56.080 think they've been running the numbers. 0:10:56.120 --> 0:11:00.320 And that was probably part of Joe Biden's He thought 0:11:00.360 --> 0:11:02.480 he was the best person to beat Trump. 0:11:03.679 --> 0:11:07.360 I mean he beat him once. Yeah, so you could 0:11:07.400 --> 0:11:09.720 always think that he had to be thinking to the 0:11:09.880 --> 0:11:13.600 very end that up into the last moment, that yes, 0:11:13.960 --> 0:11:16.080 he was going to be in this. But some reporting 0:11:16.080 --> 0:11:18.360 for Washington Posts that he did make the decision on 0:11:18.520 --> 0:11:21.440 Saturday night we're talking here on Sunday, the actual day 0:11:21.480 --> 0:11:24.040 he made the announcement, but he had made up his 0:11:24.120 --> 0:11:26.720 mind on Saturday night and didn't call the Vice president 0:11:27.200 --> 0:11:29.760 and tell her until Sunday on this day. 0:11:29.840 --> 0:11:31.160 That was pesky leaks. 0:11:31.240 --> 0:11:33.800 You tell one person, they tell one person, and then 0:11:33.840 --> 0:11:36.079 it just goes from there. But yeah, and I think 0:11:36.960 --> 0:11:40.000 there was also some mention that he still says his 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:44.240 mental acuity is sharp and he's prepared and able to 0:11:44.320 --> 0:11:47.400 lead and continue for the next four years, but that 0:11:47.800 --> 0:11:50.280 out of COVID he got knocked him down, and he 0:11:50.320 --> 0:11:52.880 said he just physically, I think people around U said 0:11:52.920 --> 0:11:55.520 physically felt so tired and didn't know if he could 0:11:55.520 --> 0:11:57.959 physically take on the challenge of the campaign that was 0:11:58.000 --> 0:11:58.560 ahead of him. 0:11:58.920 --> 0:12:03.840 But he's had a night exhausting, just and almost disastrous. Obviously, 0:12:03.920 --> 0:12:07.000 I guess we could argue that now three and a 0:12:07.000 --> 0:12:11.000 half weeks now after that debate and he tried to 0:12:11.000 --> 0:12:13.000 do the damage control. I actually thought the ones we 0:12:13.040 --> 0:12:15.880 got a little distance, and today, you know, he gets 0:12:15.920 --> 0:12:19.400 back on track within every public he did a couple 0:12:19.400 --> 0:12:21.640 of interviews, nothing work. He did at press conference, it 0:12:21.640 --> 0:12:25.160 didn't work. He had several missteps and calling people the 0:12:25.200 --> 0:12:27.280 wrong name and just did every little thing. 0:12:27.520 --> 0:12:30.640 Oh again, some major guests calling people the wrong name. 0:12:31.200 --> 0:12:32.079 Yeah, that was tough. 0:12:32.520 --> 0:12:36.840 But also think about this other this other debate is 0:12:36.880 --> 0:12:38.800 scheduled for September tenth, so he was going to be 0:12:38.800 --> 0:12:41.040 facing a second debate. Can you imagine the pressure that 0:12:41.040 --> 0:12:41.959 that would have been for him? 0:12:42.000 --> 0:12:43.920 I don't know. I can't even imagine. 0:12:43.920 --> 0:12:46.240 So that will be of interest and hopefully we'll see 0:12:46.240 --> 0:12:49.400 if that debate stands on that day, given all of 0:12:49.440 --> 0:12:51.679 the tumult and the changes, but you got to think 0:12:51.720 --> 0:12:56.040 somebody's got to be preparing for all of them. 0:12:56.040 --> 0:12:58.800 But how we haven't seen this on July twenty first, 0:12:59.440 --> 0:13:03.120 in one August twenty second is when the Democratic nominee 0:13:03.120 --> 0:13:06.520 is supposed to make a speech in Chicago in one 0:13:06.559 --> 0:13:10.240 month and a day, and we don't know who the 0:13:10.400 --> 0:13:11.160 nominee is. 0:13:11.240 --> 0:13:13.320 Right, but you got to think that people will who 0:13:13.400 --> 0:13:17.079 believe they had a shot were already prepared, like they 0:13:17.200 --> 0:13:18.440 knew that this was possible. 0:13:18.480 --> 0:13:20.360 But who's going to jump in this race? 0:13:20.920 --> 0:13:21.120 Can't? 0:13:21.760 --> 0:13:24.640 That's tough because the Democrats and the names that are 0:13:24.920 --> 0:13:26.840 out there are people who are the things are going 0:13:26.840 --> 0:13:29.880 well for right right in a prominent names who maybe 0:13:30.040 --> 0:13:33.680 just sit this one out, and then I can't imagine 0:13:33.800 --> 0:13:37.800 the Enter Party fighting anybody who would sign up for 0:13:37.880 --> 0:13:42.360 being the person that causes more tumult in the Democratic Party. 0:13:42.360 --> 0:13:43.040 I can't imagine. 0:13:43.160 --> 0:13:46.480 I think I think it's yeah, and by that reasoning alone, 0:13:46.640 --> 0:13:49.960 I think it makes sense that Kamala Harris is almost 0:13:49.960 --> 0:13:54.000 certainly going to be the nominee and we have to. 0:13:54.040 --> 0:13:56.720 And it will turn the page soon enough. But the 0:13:56.760 --> 0:14:02.320 idea of that history, yeah, matter what, that is remarkable 0:14:02.320 --> 0:14:02.640 to think. 0:14:02.760 --> 0:14:03.400 It truly is. 0:14:03.480 --> 0:14:06.840 And there is another list already forming online as well, 0:14:07.080 --> 0:14:10.720 who her, if it were Kamala, her vice presidential candidate 0:14:10.760 --> 0:14:12.920 would be. And that all has to be decided in 0:14:13.160 --> 0:14:16.319 lightening speed time. I mean, think about the vetting process 0:14:16.360 --> 0:14:19.080 that usually takes place is going to I don't know, 0:14:19.120 --> 0:14:20.840 they're going to be on hyper speed now. 0:14:21.440 --> 0:14:22.440 I can't even imagine. 0:14:22.480 --> 0:14:25.120 But some of those some of those names too were 0:14:25.160 --> 0:14:30.520 also I saw Whitmer's name on there, Kentucky Governor Andy Basher, 0:14:30.920 --> 0:14:36.240 Arizona Senator Mark Kelly, Oh yeah, I saw that name floated. 0:14:36.360 --> 0:14:40.000 A new North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper. So yeah, there's 0:14:40.160 --> 0:14:43.240 a that's a growing list as well. So so much 0:14:43.680 --> 0:14:47.120 political theater out there now that I mean, this is 0:14:47.200 --> 0:14:50.360 nothing like anything most of us have ever seen in 0:14:50.360 --> 0:14:51.800 our lifetimes and certainly in our career. 0:14:51.880 --> 0:14:54.240 Are you exhausted yet of the theater? Right? 0:14:54.400 --> 0:14:56.960 Not? Actually, this is to me, this actually feels more 0:14:57.000 --> 0:15:00.080 interesting than just the way it's been done. Like I 0:15:00.000 --> 0:15:02.800 I feel like there's now a different kind of energy. 0:15:02.840 --> 0:15:06.479 It's been sad to watch, but also potentially re energizing. 0:15:06.520 --> 0:15:09.720 You see, you know, just the gosh, the near miss 0:15:09.720 --> 0:15:12.680 with former President Trump and what that's done for the 0:15:12.680 --> 0:15:15.920 Republican Party and the enthusiasm around him, and then now 0:15:16.200 --> 0:15:19.680 you've got this dramatic change in the Democratic Party. I mean, 0:15:19.680 --> 0:15:25.080 this is like nothing I have ever missed before. And 0:15:25.120 --> 0:15:25.800 there's more to come. 0:15:26.160 --> 0:15:30.440 I'm exhausted, and I have the dates here, and I 0:15:30.480 --> 0:15:36.200 mean I am Politics is difficult enough when you just 0:15:36.240 --> 0:15:42.080 got two Canada's just duking it out. But we've had trials, 0:15:42.240 --> 0:15:46.160 mental acuity exams, we're trying to get, we got, we've 0:15:46.160 --> 0:15:47.400 got gun fire, we got. 0:15:49.320 --> 0:15:50.360 It's a lot. 0:15:50.640 --> 0:15:53.320 It's been a lot. So May thirtieth, you know what 0:15:53.360 --> 0:15:55.920 happened on May thirtieth, not far from where we sit. 0:15:57.240 --> 0:15:59.360 Trump was convicted of a thirty four. 0:16:00.560 --> 0:16:02.640 Yes, and I remember exactly where we were when we 0:16:02.680 --> 0:16:03.320 watched it happen. 0:16:03.480 --> 0:16:06.760 Thirty four felonies. This was on May thirtieth. 0:16:06.840 --> 0:16:11.240 That's insane. And look where we are now two months later. 0:16:11.680 --> 0:16:15.120 Yes, so we talk about the June twenty seventh of debate. 0:16:17.360 --> 0:16:22.720 July first, the Supreme Court grants they rule on the 0:16:22.760 --> 0:16:25.840 presidential immunity, So a win for Trump there. You move 0:16:25.920 --> 0:16:29.640 ahead to July the thirteenth, an assassination attempt. We just 0:16:29.680 --> 0:16:33.400 had the RNC. Now they got to dismiss the classified 0:16:33.440 --> 0:16:37.320 documents trial down in Florida, and now Biden is out 0:16:37.360 --> 0:16:41.280 of the race. I'm just I know, get back to 0:16:41.400 --> 0:16:42.200 normal fighting. 0:16:43.960 --> 0:16:45.520 November can't come soon enough. 0:16:47.280 --> 0:16:50.600 Oh goodness gracious. But yeah, it's going to turn now 0:16:51.440 --> 0:16:54.280 to that debate about whether they can coalesce around her. 0:16:54.320 --> 0:16:55.880 For us, what do we do? You can't vote again, 0:16:55.960 --> 0:16:58.440 there are no more primaries. Voting is not going to happen. 0:16:58.920 --> 0:17:01.200 But it really is just a matter of what happens 0:17:01.240 --> 0:17:04.920 with the Democrats. Are they going to just rally around 0:17:04.920 --> 0:17:07.840 her vote she needs. Where they have about four thousand delegates, 0:17:07.840 --> 0:17:11.520 she needs about nineteen hundred or so of them. Don't 0:17:11.520 --> 0:17:13.400 get too caught up in the math, but they could 0:17:13.400 --> 0:17:16.080 in the role call if they do it give her 0:17:16.160 --> 0:17:18.840 enough votes, and so we know going into the convention 0:17:19.000 --> 0:17:21.879 she's going to be the candidate. If we have to 0:17:21.880 --> 0:17:26.240 go into August nineteenth and she doesn't have enough delegates, that. 0:17:26.240 --> 0:17:29.200 Makes no sense for the Democratic Party. Maybe might want 0:17:29.240 --> 0:17:40.320 to speed up that virtual role call. Yeah, this is 0:17:40.400 --> 0:17:44.160 going to be a very busy political season like none 0:17:44.200 --> 0:17:46.920 we've ever seen. Just since we've been recording this podcast, 0:17:46.920 --> 0:17:50.199 the headlines just keep coming and coming. This is going 0:17:50.280 --> 0:17:53.960 to be, as you put it, in exhausting next couple 0:17:54.000 --> 0:17:54.680 of weeks and months. 0:17:54.720 --> 0:17:57.399 Okay, the headline that just surprised me. And who knows 0:17:57.480 --> 0:18:00.359 if this is true, but seeing in reporting that they 0:18:00.359 --> 0:18:06.000 have sources that someone is potentially interested in getting into 0:18:06.040 --> 0:18:09.840 the race to compete for the Democratic nomination. Okay, fine, 0:18:09.880 --> 0:18:12.159 you hear that, and then you hear who it is 0:18:12.640 --> 0:18:14.600 and what's it going to take for him to get 0:18:14.600 --> 0:18:17.959 the nomination, and you it's got your head a little bit. 0:18:18.080 --> 0:18:18.439 Yeah. 0:18:18.480 --> 0:18:21.280 And also his age, because that was such a huge 0:18:21.280 --> 0:18:26.000 part of this campaign. How old are two options were? 0:18:26.119 --> 0:18:29.480 And certainly Joe Biden's age in his mental acuity. Senator 0:18:29.560 --> 0:18:33.480 Joe Manchin of West Virginia. He's seventy six years old 0:18:33.600 --> 0:18:37.960 and according to sources, according to CNN, is considering a 0:18:38.040 --> 0:18:40.920 run for president. He's an independent. By the way, he's 0:18:40.960 --> 0:18:44.160 not even a registered Democrat, so he would have to 0:18:44.600 --> 0:18:50.160 reregister his political affiliation to being a Democrat to even 0:18:50.240 --> 0:18:53.120 be allowed to be considered for the nomination. 0:18:53.240 --> 0:18:56.200 And a lot of people considered him a king maker 0:18:56.359 --> 0:18:58.520 but also a nuisance to a certain degree and the 0:18:58.560 --> 0:19:02.399 Senate because he but he still does caucus with the Democrats, 0:19:02.720 --> 0:19:07.320 and he oftentimes was one who could wield a lot 0:19:07.359 --> 0:19:10.040 of power and a lot of folks had to bow 0:19:10.119 --> 0:19:12.000 to his will and where his vote was going to go. 0:19:12.160 --> 0:19:14.960 So to hear that he could potentially get in the 0:19:15.040 --> 0:19:17.040 race and to be willing to, I mean, how are 0:19:17.040 --> 0:19:19.639 people going to receive a guy who's. 0:19:19.040 --> 0:19:21.439 Probably not well. But let's let's watch and see what 0:19:21.480 --> 0:19:24.840 happens with that. Also, this headline not a big surprise, 0:19:24.920 --> 0:19:26.560 and there is going to be a lot more to 0:19:26.560 --> 0:19:31.080 come with this. Trump allies already putting out attack ads 0:19:31.119 --> 0:19:35.399 against Kamala Harris in four of those battleground states, saying 0:19:35.440 --> 0:19:41.240 that she covered up Joe Biden's They say obvious mental 0:19:41.280 --> 0:19:44.199 decline because she put out statements saying that he was 0:19:44.960 --> 0:19:48.600 good to go, and she was proudly standing by him. 0:19:48.680 --> 0:19:52.800 So they are already taking they're not wasting any time 0:19:53.119 --> 0:19:54.240 taking shots at Kamala. 0:19:54.640 --> 0:19:56.960 They were ready, you know that they were ready. Those 0:19:57.000 --> 0:20:00.720 ads were ready to go as soon as this day came. 0:20:00.800 --> 0:20:03.959 And that is going to be a line of attack, folks, 0:20:03.960 --> 0:20:07.000 that you are probably going to hear pretty consistently. I'm 0:20:07.040 --> 0:20:10.320 curious how loud it's going to get. But the idea 0:20:10.800 --> 0:20:16.119 that the administration, the Biden administration, his people, his handler's 0:20:16.400 --> 0:20:20.960 him were a part of a cover up, a conspiracy 0:20:21.000 --> 0:20:25.399 to keep the condition of the president from the American people, 0:20:25.840 --> 0:20:29.359 that is going to be a big storyline, or a 0:20:29.400 --> 0:20:31.480