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White House Dropout

July 22, 2024
Where were you when Pres. Biden dropped out of the presidential race? And while it’s JOE-ver for him, will voters show up for new candidate Kamala Harris?
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On Sunday, Pres. Joe Biden, 81, dropped out of the 2024 presidential race, endorsing Vice Pres. Kamala Harris, 59, as the Democratic party’s nominee. “While it has been my intention to seek reelection,” Biden...
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Show transcript
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The White House telenovela is just getting more wild.
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Where were you? When the news dropped?
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I was in the car.
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My good friend from college sent me the text and she said
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Biden dropped. I also screamed and I had a couple initial
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reactions, but it's a memorable moment.
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Where were you? I was in the toilet,
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you know, I was like,
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at the moment I like do in deeper and then I'm like
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oh, shoot,
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I gotta, you know,
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you gotta take your business in the back.
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Yeah, just like Biden was well.
00:29
No, this is definitely a,
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it's a moment in American history.
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Never before has a sitting president and nominee dropped out so late
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in the race. I mean,
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at the time of this filming nine days ago by was like
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you know what,
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I'm 100%. I'm not dropping out.
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I'm in this and now he's 100% out.
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I guess you can say it's job.
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Oh, he's a dad.
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He had to and he did as he should.
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So. Ok, Alejo,
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what does this mean?
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Ok, look. So from what I heard,
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what I've collected is that first things first?
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The Democratic party will need its delegates to select a new nominee
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for president. But as you might have heard,
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Joe Biden has already endorsed Kamala Harris who has become the favorite
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to run for the democratic nominee.
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So now Kamala will have to pick a running me which will
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help keep momentum and excitement around her new campaign.
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So now the race is not between 280 year old white guys
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and I know Gen Z is all behind Kamala.
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I mean, her whole social media has changed.
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She's brat approved but wait,
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wait, wait, wait.
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What's Brat Charlie XCX invented kind of a new way of life
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Is that a Yes,
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it's an album actually,
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Kamala is brat deemed by the queen herself.
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Charlie XCX backed by so many of us,
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Gen Zers. I mean,
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Kamal is just that girl.
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So you feel like Gen Z is like all behind Kamala Harris
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It's all the edits.
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I'm like, bro.
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Yeah, she has fan cams.
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You know, you,
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you know, you're locked in with Gen Z when you've got
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a fan cam going up at like seven in the morning.
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I think she has that.
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She's gonna get that vote and she has all that power.
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Like, I mean,
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it's gonna be interesting.
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Mamala Kamala, I think,
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I think she's, she's gone.
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She's also mother, she's a mother,
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but right now she's brat,
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they're two different things.
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Maybe she'll be mother when she's in like in office.
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Well, see, I mean,
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I think that's what she's aiming for.
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I think she's aiming for mother,
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mother of the United States.
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It's complicated. It's complex but she gets it.