Dave Weigel: What happens if Biden resigns?

What happens if President Joe Biden drops out? I’m just asking the question.

Biden is under increasing pressure from his own camp to drop out of the 2024 race, and since his disastrous defeat in last week’s debate, nearly every poll has shown him losing. Latest articles from RealClearPolitics average Nationally, his approval rating is down about 3.5 percentage points. Several Democratic members of Congress member have It is called They called on him to step down. Big donorsMany in the national media who once scorned those who pointed to Biden’s deteriorating mental health are now turning against him.

So where do we go from here?

To find the answer, Just ask questions was invited David WeigelPolitical reporter Semaphoresand previously of The Washington Post, Bloomberg, slateand reason.

Weigel is reasonZach Weissmuller and Liz Wolf of the White House criticized the slow media response to Biden’s deteriorating condition, Biden’s defiance of the Democratic Party’s “elites,” and “Coconut Tablets“What’s happening with Vice Presidential candidate Kamala Harris and what the Democratic primary will look like”

The whole conversation is reasonof YouTube Channel or Just ask questions Podcast Feed apple, Spotifyor your favorite podcatcher.

Sources referenced in this conversation:

1. 1. 2024 General Election: Trump vs. Biden Poll | RealClearPolling
   2. The conspiracy of silence to protect Joe Biden | New York Magazine
   3. Trumpworld releases another ‘cheap fake’ video of President Biden | The Daily Beast
   4. Biden Explained He was arrested in February 2024 by special agents as a “well-intentioned elderly man with a poor memory.”
   5. Biden transition: How it will work | Semaphores

Time stamp:

• 0:00—Intro
• 1:28—How much is Biden losing?
• 4:58—How cognitively impaired does Biden have? 6:58—How much medical information should the White House release?
• 11:46—Why didn’t the DC media say anything sooner? 32:06—Media is gaslighting Biden’s decline as a “cheap fake”
• 39:10—The media attacks Biden
• 48:13—How does Zach feel about voting for Biden?
• 50:35—Biden’s counterattack against the press and Democratic “elites”
• 56:41—Why Democrats are turning their backs on Joe Biden
• 1:05:26—Kamala Harris’ candidacy takes a “coconut pill”
• 1:15:00—What effect would removing Biden actually have?

• producer: John Osterhout