Speaker 1: Hey there, folks. We have just heard from President Biden
Speaker 1: about why he now thinks the best way for him
Speaker 1: to serve the country is to not serve a second term.
Speaker 1: And with that, welcome to this very special episode of
Speaker 1: Amy and TJ. Robes. We have now seen and heard
Speaker 1: from President Biden for the first time since his decision
Speaker 1: to get out of the race. And what were you
Speaker 1: expecting versus what we got?
Speaker 2: Well, okay, so a lot of things actually, So I
Speaker 2: knew it would be probably short, but it was much
Speaker 2: shorter than I expected. Eleven twelve minutes depending on who
Speaker 2: was doing the timing.
Speaker 1: Started on time eight o'clock Eastern.
Speaker 2: Start, run on time, and I clocked it as a
Speaker 2: twelve when he was done. So that was a little
Speaker 2: shocking at just how short it was. I was surprised
Speaker 2: that he never explained why he was getting out of
Speaker 2: the race ever addressed the issues about the accusations about
Speaker 2: his mental acuity. He never even touched on that, and
Speaker 2: he barely spoke. I think it was one line about
Speaker 2: the woman he endorsed, Kamala Harris. So those things all
Speaker 2: surprised me.
Speaker 1: Let's go back here, we folks. The set up here
Speaker 1: was that This was the speech, and with this was
Speaker 1: the legacy speech. This is when he was supposed to
Speaker 1: talk about what he has done as president and why
Speaker 1: he's getting out of the race and for it to
Speaker 1: be for the better event of the country. Now he
Speaker 1: did do this from the Oval Office. This was a
Speaker 1: prime time speech. He was in a navy suit. That's
Speaker 1: a royal blue tie. He looked, he looked sharp, He
Speaker 1: looked pretty good. He's gotten a little rest, I suppose
Speaker 1: because he has been in isolation with COVID. But some
Speaker 1: of the details and things we couldn't see and couldn't
Speaker 1: know while the speech was going on if you were
Speaker 1: watching it on televisions, that his family was in the room.
Speaker 1: He had a number of members of his family robes
Speaker 1: that were lining the wall. So they were sitting around
Speaker 1: the wall of the old office. And who was it
Speaker 1: that was sitting actually closest to him along that while
Speaker 1: wall is one of the family members that a lot
Speaker 1: of people say he should have been trying to distance
Speaker 1: himself from.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and someone who I have spent quite a bit
Speaker 2: of time with, Hunter Biden. He was right next to him,
Speaker 2: and his daughter Ashley was next to Hunter, and notably
Speaker 2: doctor Jill Biden, his wife was at the far end.
Speaker 2: So but yeah, that look, this was a historic moment.
Speaker 2: This was a painful moment for him personally, for the family.
Speaker 2: He absolutely did not want to get out of the race.
Speaker 2: This was not something that he personally wanted to do.
Speaker 2: There was clearly political pressure, and some people have suggested
Speaker 2: this was even a political intervention of sorts. So this
Speaker 2: resignation wasn't necessarily something he chose. A lot of people
Speaker 2: have said he was forced out. So this had to
Speaker 2: be an incredibly painful evening for President Biden and for
Speaker 2: every member of his family who supported him.
Speaker 1: Painful. It adds to the political theater we have seen,
Speaker 1: but it's been historical theater, it seems in this particular cycle.
Speaker 1: But here we are watching and I guess not something
Speaker 1: I would ever think I would see necessarily in my lifetime.
Speaker 1: This wasn't a resignation, But this was a sitting president
Speaker 1: deciding not to voluntarily deciding. Okay, we can yes, some
Speaker 1: people will debate that word yea if this was voluntary,
Speaker 1: but he's making the choice to step aside. So you've
Speaker 1: got in our history. Lyndon Johnson, I guess was the
Speaker 1: most famous and what was the line, I will not
Speaker 1: accept what's the line he had the very famous line
Speaker 1: about not accepting the nomination? Correct, you know what I'm
Speaker 1: talking nineteen sixty eight.
Speaker 2: That's how far you have to go back. So many
Speaker 2: people presentaries included this is the first time in our
Speaker 2: lifetimes we have seen a sitting president stand back and
Speaker 2: say I will not I will not run for president again,
Speaker 2: despite the fact that he had been elected through the
Speaker 2: primary process to be the nominee.
Speaker 1: And it's so rare. We up to forty six, right,
Speaker 1: we have forty six presidents, so we're talking what we
Speaker 1: got Coolidge, Truman, Hayes, you can polk. I believe we
Speaker 1: had several that this actually happened in our history, but
Speaker 1: it's just such a rare thing to take place. So,
Speaker 1: you know, this was a tough and was emotional night
Speaker 1: and something still he did not want to do so.
Speaker 1: But the content, I guess ropes of what he was
Speaker 1: trying to get across tonight, and he uses line you'll
Speaker 1: see it everywhere is that we are we don't kings
Speaker 1: don't rule here, and that was really a theme of
Speaker 1: what his speech was. He started off pretty much that way, saying,
Speaker 1: this is not who we are. We have presidents. Our
Speaker 1: presidents are not kings. And he never mentioned Donald Trump
Speaker 1: a single time during the speech. He never even said
Speaker 1: anything like the other candidate. He didn't say the other side.
Speaker 1: But he tried to Roways make that point that he
Speaker 1: was doing this as a matter of showing who we
Speaker 1: are the republic. That is an idea that we haven't
Speaker 1: quite made it there, but we are still trying.
Speaker 2: So he talked about how he revered the office of
Speaker 2: the presidency, but that he loved his country more and
Speaker 2: that was one of the reasons why he said he
Speaker 2: was stepping down. But as you point out, he never
Speaker 2: mentioned the other party. He never mentioned Donald Trump, and
Speaker 2: yet he did make this about protecting democracy directly implying
Speaker 2: that voting for Donald Trump would be a vote against democracy.
Speaker 2: And I think so a lot of folks who are
Speaker 2: undecided or who are on the side of Trump look
Speaker 2: at this as something that didn't feel genuine. So here
Speaker 2: we have President Biden saying that he is trying to
Speaker 2: unite the country. He said, we have a choice between
Speaker 2: hope and hate, unity versus division. He asked whether or
Speaker 2: not character in public life still mattered, and so he
Speaker 2: was clearly drawing a line in the sand and basically
Speaker 2: saying that a vote for Trump would be a vote
Speaker 2: against democracy. So this wasn't necessarily a speech to the
Speaker 2: American public. It absolutely was a political speech. And so
Speaker 2: he had the opportunity perhaps not to do that, and
Speaker 2: yet I understand we're in a political season that is
Speaker 2: as tough as it's ever been, and so he took
Speaker 2: the opportunity to to the party line, but did it
Speaker 2: in the veil or acting as though he were doing
Speaker 2: this for the American people. And so I think a
Speaker 2: lot of people who and this is a divided country,
Speaker 2: you look at this and say, you know, he could
Speaker 2: have been a little bit more unifying.
Speaker 1: I mean, I absolutely think that he believes he was
Speaker 1: being unifying in what he was saying. I know politics
Speaker 1: always plays into this, but I think he genuinely believes
Speaker 1: that the country needs to come together. I think a
Speaker 1: lot of people believe the country needs to come together,
Speaker 1: and he thought this was. Yeah, he talked about the
Speaker 1: uniting the country, but he also talked about uniting the party.
Speaker 1: He spoke specifically about the onus being on you, the voter,
Speaker 1: the American public, to save the democracy is the line.
Speaker 1: He you saved the democracy and the onus is on
Speaker 1: you to do so, and his role in doing that
Speaker 1: is to step aside. It's a step aside, he sa
Speaker 1: it is now. The best way forward is for him
Speaker 1: to pass the torch to another generation. So there's a
Speaker 1: time and place or experience that time in place is
Speaker 1: not now. The time in plays is now for a
Speaker 1: younger generation and youngunger voices. We understand. I mean, this
Speaker 1: guy's been in public office for fifty years and maybe
Speaker 1: some are arguing that the biggest service he has done
Speaker 1: to the country is to stop serving the country. That's
Speaker 1: got to be tough to stomach tonight. It's a tough
Speaker 1: night with the Biden family.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, it is a difficult thing to do. And I
Speaker 2: was I think anybody could put themselves in that position
Speaker 2: and think, Wow, this thing. You love this thing, You've
Speaker 2: worked your whole life for this thing. You truly and
Speaker 2: I do believe in his genuine care and concern for
Speaker 2: our country in the direction it's headed and where he
Speaker 2: wants to see it go. So his heart is in
Speaker 2: the right place. But it's just it is a tough
Speaker 2: thing to watch, and it had to have required so
Speaker 2: much strength to be able to deliver that speech with
Speaker 2: not just the world watching, but his family even more
Speaker 2: so watching him just from a few feet away. So
Speaker 2: the humbling, humbling experience. And you know, we all age,
Speaker 2: We all, I think, fear what happens with age and
Speaker 2: where we're all headed. And so it's tough to watch
Speaker 2: because we're all headed in that direction and we won't
Speaker 2: be our sharpest the older we get. And just watching him,
Speaker 2: unfortunately have to acknowledge that in a very public way
Speaker 2: is difficult to witness. It certainly is. But he did
Speaker 2: not go into any of those details about where he
Speaker 2: is mentally. And you know, maybe this is silly of me,
Speaker 2: maybe this is the woman in me, but I actually
Speaker 2: kind of wanted to hear how he felt emotionally about it.
Speaker 2: Maybe that doesn't matter, but I kind of wanted to
Speaker 2: see the human side of what he's been through over
Speaker 2: the last few days and what led him to this decision.
Speaker 2: I was hoping that maybe we would hear some of that,
Speaker 2: because that just would have felt, i don't know, honest
Speaker 2: and real and human, and I think I'm desperate for
Speaker 2: that in politics. And maybe that's just a silly thing
Speaker 2: for me to even want to reach too, because no
Speaker 2: one would dare do that. But I actually think it's
Speaker 2: so powerful when people are human, and I just I
Speaker 2: wanted a little bit more of that.
Speaker 1: But you know, it was a very human We all
Speaker 1: see people in our families grow older. He did not
Speaker 1: address this in that way we can all kind of relate.
Speaker 1: But watching him on TV tonight, if you've got a
Speaker 1: chance to, or you'll see clips at some point, there's
Speaker 1: one thing I think the most powerful images of the
Speaker 1: night are the still images of his family lined up
Speaker 1: along the walls of that oval to watch this guy
Speaker 1: they love have to do something that we know he
Speaker 1: did not want to do, so he will no matter what.
Speaker 1: He's going to remain president. He says he's still got
Speaker 1: some work to do over the next several months, things
Speaker 1: he wants to get accomplished. He mentioned some of them,
Speaker 1: including Supreme Court reform. Tonight, Again, like I said, he
Speaker 1: did not mention Donald Trump by name, but he did
Speaker 1: mention Kamala Harris like you were saying ropes. Yes, it
Speaker 1: makes sense now that I sit here, But at the
Speaker 1: time I thought he thought there'd be two sentences. There
Speaker 1: was essentially one she's experienced, she's tough, she's capable, and
Speaker 1: that was kind of it. But maybe that's okay. This
Speaker 1: is not supposed to be her night. She'll have plenty
Speaker 1: of attention and eyeballs on her. But that was the
Speaker 1: nod he still gave tonight.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess I just look. I wish I could
Speaker 2: have heard more from him, from his heart, more from
Speaker 2: him about what this decision was like for him, more
Speaker 2: from him about where he is in his life, and
Speaker 2: I just wanted more. I think twelve minutes wasn't enough.
Speaker 2: I wish I could have heard more from him, and
Speaker 2: then there would have been maybe, yeah, a little bit
Speaker 2: more time to give Kamala a little bit more of
Speaker 2: a nod. I do, And I don't want to harp
Speaker 2: too much on what he didn't say. Something he did
Speaker 2: say struck me. And we were watching the analysis before
Speaker 2: and we watched some of the analysis afterwards. We had
Speaker 2: all the networks up, we had two computers up and
Speaker 2: the actual television sets. We watched the MSNBC, CNN, Fox News,
Speaker 2: so we're getting it from all the different vantage points.
Speaker 2: But I didn't hear anybody point this out yet. But
Speaker 2: there was a point in his speech where he said,
Speaker 2: I he said, I promise to level with you. I
Speaker 2: promised to tell you the truth. And then he didn't
Speaker 2: see anything beyond that, And I was kind of holding
Speaker 2: my breath because I was hoping he was going to
Speaker 2: then maybe go into some of those details I was
Speaker 2: talking about, because, as you know, if you've been watching
Speaker 2: and I'm sure if you will watch any of the
Speaker 2: political commentary following this and leading up to the election,
Speaker 2: one of the big allegations the Republicans in the right
Speaker 2: are going to point to, not just Joe Biden, that
Speaker 2: Joe Biden administration, but Kamala as well and anyone associated
Speaker 2: with them, is that they were covering up Joe Biden's
Speaker 2: cognitive decline. And so that's going to be a huge,
Speaker 2: huge part of this campaign going forward. So anyway, I
Speaker 2: just wondered if that part of his speech will come
Speaker 2: back to bite him, because he made a point to
Speaker 2: say that he was leveling with the American people and
Speaker 2: telling us the truth, and that's what's in question from
Speaker 2: the other side.
Speaker 1: That is what I think a lot of people were
Speaker 1: holding their breadth for tonight. If there's going to be
Speaker 1: a look from the other side, there'll be a criticism.
Speaker 1: But to that exact point, he didn't. If he thinks
Speaker 1: that he's getting out, if he's getting out of the
Speaker 1: race now because he thinks it's the best for the
Speaker 1: country and the party, there is a why do you
Speaker 1: think that's the best for the country and the party?
Speaker 1: The why was not answered. He only said it's time
Speaker 1: for younger voices. When did he come to that conclusion
Speaker 1: about when it's time for younger voices? And why didn't
Speaker 1: you come to this conclusion several months ago or before
Speaker 1: the primaries actually started? That the why? So a lot
Speaker 1: of the why has to do with, for those on
Speaker 1: the outside, his cognitive ability, how he performed in that debate.
Speaker 1: He's old now and he's not up for the task.
Speaker 1: He never addressed age or anything about his cognitive ability,
Speaker 1: and so his reasons for getting out of the race,
Speaker 1: at least listening to this twelve minute speech, had nothing
Speaker 1: to do with that. And I don't think a lot
Speaker 1: of people are going to buy that for a second.
Speaker 1: So robes that we both sat on the edge of
Speaker 1: our seat truth being transparent with you. I promised I
Speaker 1: would do that, and then it trailed off. We were
Speaker 1: sitting out waiting this is going to be lined up,
Speaker 1: and there was nothing after that.
Speaker 2: Really, yeah, yeah, I mean, I do appreciate the sentiment
Speaker 2: he made about the fact that nothing can come in
Speaker 2: the way of the greater good, and he pointed out
Speaker 2: not even personal ambition. And I do know that watching
Speaker 2: him tonight, he has clearly set aside personal ambition. It's
Speaker 2: something that has motivated it, I'm sure, and driven him,
Speaker 2: driven many of us in our careers to get to
Speaker 2: where he is, and to have to set that aside
Speaker 2: is a big deal. And we saw him do that tonight,
Speaker 2: and for that, I do think, you know, you never
Speaker 2: know how the history books will look on a president,
Speaker 2: but I do think for this moment, for his choice,
Speaker 2: how he got to it, it can be up for debate,
Speaker 2: But the fact that he did come to this evening
Speaker 2: and make this speech, I think people will look back
Speaker 2: and say this was an act of generosity, This was
Speaker 2: an act for the greater good, and certainly a selfless
Speaker 2: one and a difficult one and a humbling one to
Speaker 2: do and then to witness, you.
Speaker 1: Say, a humbling one. But how history will will never know,
Speaker 1: but we just need to I guess there how are
Speaker 1: people going to receive this over just the next few months,
Speaker 1: because this, I mean the idea, that's how it's going
Speaker 1: to be spun. On one side, he is putting he
Speaker 1: is so committed to making sure the democracy is preserved,
Speaker 1: and that Donald Trump isn't in the Why he is
Speaker 1: so committed to that that he's willing to get out
Speaker 1: of the race. Compare that, folks to the other side
Speaker 1: and Donald Trump, who was willing to do whatever it
Speaker 1: took to stay in power. Now, that is an argument
Speaker 1: that one side is going to trying to make and
Speaker 1: juxtapose those two images. The side or the argument the
Speaker 1: other side is going to make is he's out of
Speaker 1: the race because he got pushed out by his own people.
Speaker 1: They don't They saw their chances and they didn't like it,
Speaker 1: so they just decided to switch horses. And by the way,
Speaker 1: they've been covering up for the longest his ability to
Speaker 1: do the job. That is the other side and the
Speaker 1: other argument, And what he didn't do tonight was answer
Speaker 1: any critic that might have a question about how he's
Speaker 1: doing as an eighty one year old man.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because there are genuine concerns about what the next
Speaker 2: six months look like, is he the president? Is he
Speaker 2: co leading with Kamala? And has that been happening? We
Speaker 2: don't know, and a lot of people are asking that question.
Speaker 2: I don't think he made people feel better about that
Speaker 2: with this speech, and he had the opportunity to do that,
Speaker 2: and I.
Speaker 1: No, not once, no, not anything about it in the
Speaker 1: room wasn't acknowledged.
Speaker 2: And that is part of the problem with politics in general,
Speaker 2: because don't we see that all the time from so
Speaker 2: many people. So I'm curious, are we going to see
Speaker 2: Joe out in the campaign trail with Kamala? Is Kamala
Speaker 2: going to distance herself from him? Is he going to laylaw?
Speaker 2: I mean, there's a lot of questions about what the
Speaker 2: next few weeks and months are going to be like.
Speaker 2: But I fear that the tone is, you know, we
Speaker 2: talked about how we were hopeful. Maybe just gosh, think
Speaker 2: about the last four weeks. You go from that debate
Speaker 2: that set this whole entire night in motion and to
Speaker 2: a to an assassination attempt to today. I mean, I
Speaker 2: can't even recall four weeks like this in political history
Speaker 2: that I've witnessed in my life like I've seen in
Speaker 2: the last four weeks and I can't even imagine what
Speaker 2: the next few months are going to be. I mean,
Speaker 2: it's like I can't even imagine.
Speaker 1: So there's a sprint to the finish a line I
Speaker 1: guess for Vice President Harris now, and everybody's up giving
Speaker 1: all the scenarios for how she her path weighs to
Speaker 1: victory and the electoral College. So you'll see a lot
Speaker 1: of that. The thing, however, look, you will see of
Speaker 1: a lot about favorables and unfavorables. Joe Biden's approval rating
Speaker 1: was somewhere in the mid thirties. Kamala Harris's was somewhere
Speaker 1: in the high thirties.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Right, so maybe a little bump and whatnot. But what
Speaker 1: the Democrats just gave Americans who weren't excited at all
Speaker 1: about this election, which might be the thing that tips
Speaker 1: them tips the scale. They just gave them something that
Speaker 1: people desperate for, an alternative to two old guys who
Speaker 1: were in the last matchup. Yeah, like, we don't give
Speaker 1: us anything other than this, and Democrats just gave it
Speaker 1: to them. Here's an alternative here. You didn't want these
Speaker 1: two A lot of people didn't want that matchup. So
Speaker 1: could that be one of the things, and of course
Speaker 1: the black vote specifically. We have seen today all over
Speaker 1: television black women, black women, black women rallying with black women,
Speaker 1: black women. It's going to be a very big focal
Speaker 1: point of this of the Harris campaign to try to
Speaker 1: drive a vote, because it's going to be necessary now.
Speaker 1: But to see some of that come through in the
Speaker 1: speech tonight, we've turned another page in this election. But
Speaker 1: that's huge. They've given people what they desperately. Black people
Speaker 1: weren't excited about either one of these candidates.
Speaker 2: We know this it's a rematch, so it's like, really,
Speaker 2: we can't we can't get someone other than these two
Speaker 2: Caucasian old men. Yes, that's been a big, big complaint,
Speaker 2: and now there is an alternative and we'll see what happens.
Speaker 2: But we've already started to see the coverage switch and
Speaker 2: it's on. The politics at its worst, perhaps is on.
Speaker 2: I mean, I wish it wouldn't be that way, but
Speaker 2: I think we're in for a difficult, difficult next few months.
Speaker 1: We always say, look, the country's been through worse, right,
Speaker 1: and we'll make it through this like we've made it
Speaker 1: through everything else. But what a night for the guy
Speaker 1: has fifty years of service, and his biggest act, and
Speaker 1: some are arguing now, is that he is deciding not
Speaker 1: to serve. And you're going to hear a line a
Speaker 1: lot out there about a kid with us stutter, and
Speaker 1: that's how he described himself tonight, as a kid with
Speaker 1: a stutter who ascended to the presidency, and that same
Speaker 1: kid with a stutter was in the Oval Office tonight
Speaker 1: having to do what was would argue maybe the most
Speaker 1: difficult thing he's had to do in his professional career,
Speaker 1: and we know it was something he did not want
Speaker 1: to do. And for his family and look for people
Speaker 1: who love him and support him, you can see them
Speaker 1: all over sometimes the way they speak about him on television,
Speaker 1: people who have worked for him. Look, it's a tough day.
Speaker 1: And that image, right, it looked the image outside of
Speaker 1: the Whitehouse of all the staffers we've been seeing the
Speaker 1: video going to a watch party and the White House
Speaker 1: is kind of sad, like a slow procession.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they said there was going to be pizza and
Speaker 2: beer and wine. So it was this bizarre you know,
Speaker 2: obviously it wasn't celebratory, and yet they were still perhaps
Speaker 2: applauding his decision to do the right thing by the party,
Speaker 2: and he would say for the country. I heard one
Speaker 2: commentator say this, so I couldn't. I wouldn't ever claim this,
Speaker 2: but I thought it was so well said. Before the
Speaker 2: speech began, she said, this is the most important speech
Speaker 2: he never wanted to give, and it may be the
Speaker 2: thing he's most remembered for. We heard him tonight talk
Speaker 2: about all of his accomplishments as president, and I'm sure
Speaker 2: he will remember those, but this perhaps will be the
Speaker 2: thing he's remembered most for, stepping down and letting that fresher,
Speaker 2: younger voice carry on.
Speaker 1: And now, just as the news keeps coming in, there
Speaker 1: was a you'll see an image of it. But doctor Biden,
Speaker 1: the first lady they've been thorin this handwritten note that
Speaker 1: she sent to staff. But the con the contents of
Speaker 1: that note, she says, to those who never wavered, to
Speaker 1: those who refused to down, to those who always believed.
Speaker 1: My heart is full of gratitude. Thank you for the
Speaker 1: trust you put in Joe. Now it's time to put
Speaker 1: that trust in Kamala. Page is being turned. How much
Speaker 1: we'll see? Will we see that much of him? How
Speaker 1: much are we right? We have to turn that page.
Speaker 1: And sure he'll be on the campaign trail. Shure, we'll
Speaker 1: probably see some, but it's got to be you have
Speaker 1: to think it's gonna be few and far between. This
Speaker 1: is now Kamala Harris's party.
Speaker 2: It is now Kamala Harris's party, but she has yet
Speaker 2: to receive the nomination officially. That may happen as early
Speaker 2: as early August. We may be waiting until the convention,
Speaker 2: but that's not as likely. We believe here within the
Speaker 2: next probably week or two, they do have that virtual
Speaker 2: roll call that perhaps she will be the nominee, but
Speaker 2: certainly the presumptive nominee. As it stands right now, no
Speaker 2: one has actively decided to run against her, and that's
Speaker 2: highly unlikely. So and just you, we heard Trump on
Speaker 2: the on the stump today in North Carolina and it's
Speaker 2: all about Kamala. So they they've already they've already gotten
Speaker 2: their talking points and it is it is Trump versus
Speaker 2: Common even though.
Speaker 1: It's not official.
Speaker 2: Yes, that is where we are headed.
Speaker 1: She does have enough, I mean enough have publicly come
Speaker 1: out and said that they but no voting has started,
Speaker 1: but enough have come out. Delegates have come out publicly
Speaker 1: and said there she has enough, So that's not the
Speaker 1: issue at all. But to hear, to hear the Republican
Speaker 1: now talking points everywhere, the same ones. Our borders are radical,
Speaker 1: they're going to hear radical. You're going to hear about
Speaker 1: our prosecutorial records. You're going to hear. Even Trump was
Speaker 1: on the campaign trail saying she failed the bar exam. Yes, right,
Speaker 1: it begins here we go. But you know, if we
Speaker 1: can stop with violence, political violence, if we can get
Speaker 1: back to you know, just healthy debate.
Speaker 2: You know what, let's like, let's let's just yes, let's
Speaker 2: let it be about where each candidate is taking our
Speaker 2: country and the policies they endorse. We can vote on
Speaker 2: that and hopefully we will have the best person win
Speaker 2: come November.
Speaker 1: Well, right now, President Biden lost his fight. There was
Speaker 1: no way he could fight his own party. There's no
Speaker 1: way he could do that and fight Donald Trump at
Speaker 1: the same time. So President Biden will remain president and
Speaker 1: all the job for the next six months, but he
Speaker 1: will not be the candidate is now Kamala Harris, he
Speaker 1: has made the speech we were waiting on again. He
Speaker 1: just came out of COVID. I mean, he's we haven't
Speaker 1: really seen him out and acted it. To be honest
Speaker 1: with you, it was nice to see him and to
Speaker 1: be honest, and I know you feel this way out.
Speaker 1: Well no excuse me, I won't speak for you in this,
Speaker 1: but you're you're sitting there and you're you're kind of
Speaker 1: hoping your he does okay, like I hope he gets
Speaker 1: through this speech. Any major gaffes, Yeah, he just mean, you.
Speaker 2: Know, look, I think the bar unfortunately was set pretty
Speaker 2: low after that debate. So anything above that, you're like, Okay,
Speaker 2: that wasn't that was that was that was pretty good
Speaker 2: and uh, that's not what you want from a presidential candidate.
Speaker 2: And so it was his time and and he has
Speaker 2: you know, he he got to do it his way
Speaker 2: with his speech in his moment, and it was tonight.
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