Biden Refuses To Bow Out - Irishman In America with Marion McKeone

An Irishman Abroad

Jarlath Regan

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🗓️ 12 July 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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When your mental faculties are called into question it’s best to keep embarrassing gaffs to a minimum. In a week when President Biden was hearing it from all angles he hit two gaff homers back to back while standing at the plate after the NATO summit. Is time up for Joe? Will the dogged determination that has served him so well, be the rock on which his re-election campaign perishes. Marion McKeone of the Sunday Business Post takes a look back at the wreckage of the last 14 days since the disastrous debate that set the wheels in motion. Join us as a member to get bigger episodes, bonus content and more - it only takes a few clicks at www.patreon.com/irishmanabroad For more information on up-coming shows see www.jigser.com Email the show - [email protected]

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0:00.0	On the very night when the world needed to see Joe Biden at his intellectual best,
0:04.0	he conjured up two gaffs that went instantly viral around the world,
0:09.0	firstly introducing Ukraine President Zelensky as President Putin,
0:14.0	and then, only minutes later, referring to Kamala Harris as Vice President Trump.
0:20.0	In the moment, Biden caught the first error but failed to even recognize the second.
0:25.6	And in the moment, you could almost hear the crack of the collective Democratic Party face palm.
0:32.5	It wasn't the beleaguered US president accidentally announcing the nuclear codes instead of a phone number,
0:39.2	but this was all about timing and it couldn't get worse.
0:44.4	Since our last episode, covering his car crash debate with Donald Trump, the party and its
0:50.1	donors have been in a tailspin in case you haven't noticed. Whether Joe should step aside or not.
0:55.7	That's the question. Some, including senior Democrats, have urged him to let another candidate go forward.
1:02.2	George Clooney went back to the ER to declare this as an emergency. What the hell is going on?
1:09.9	What is going to happen? There's only one person to ask. Marion McKeown,
1:13.9	you are's correspondent for the Sunday Christmas Post. My friend on yours is here to take a much
1:18.4	closer look. It's the Irishman in America podcast. My mother believed and my father believed
1:24.2	that if I wanted to be President of the United States, I could be, I could be vice president.
1:28.3	Former Vice President Joe Biden has been elected President of the United States.
1:34.3	It is my greatest honor and privilege to have been your president.
1:38.3	We will be back in some form.
1:40.3	We are still deeply divided.
1:42.3	Public health experts warned this was coming, unless more was done,
1:45.4	and here we are now. Are you proud of what happened here today? Absolutely. Never before in American
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