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We start today with a political earthquake
President byden has announced he is giving up his party's nomination
Dropping out of the race for reelection
And he has endorsed to vice president camalhris as his choice to take over the top of the democratic ticket
That's said it is unclear how the party will proceed and to talk through we are joined by npr senior weight house correspondent
Tama key who is in rehobith beach
Delloware
That's swhere biyden has been recovering from covd
Also with us in mpyor national political correspondent
Mara
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What
What more is he saying about this deciice
Well
He made his announcement in letter adadadsed to the american people
And after talking about his accomplishments in office
He said that he believes it is in the best interest of his party and the country to quote stand down
And focused on his remaining months as president
And what he doesn't mention is that the drum beat from democrats for him to drops out
Had been building ever since his disastrous debate performance three weeks ago
And one advisor i spoke to recently said he was just never able to get back on solid footing after that
And you know today there was a new swing state pull out from michigan
Showing him trailing former president trump badly
And he could just add that the pile of dire news
Because bindenance chances against the former president
That he
He chosen as his party's nominee four years ago
Because bitden was widely seen as the most elemainable predidate
You know he was to beat former president trump and in recent week's democrats just stopped believing it
And it seems now bitden two has stopped believing it
Bitden is his here in delware recovering from coveit as you say
But ah he says that he will address the american people at more length later this week
And we know that he is expected to deliver remarks later this week
At the lbj presidential library
Lydon johnson was the last democratic president to step aside instead of seeking another term so such rich symbolism there i just want to push on this question of what changed red because mora hob in here as you know that the bbiden campaign was insisting friday morning saturday morning capsaying he's in
He's the nominey
He's ggoing a win
What exactly changed right now i think there was a real process
Remember that he's onna stay
And he's going to win was sofhening the end
End i think what happened
It was almost like the twelve stages of greef
I mean he started out
Defiant
He was in denial about the polls
He said they weren't true
But in the end he was not deluted
And he what was reto poll as well as anybody in what he also knew is that if he was going to get out
He needed to get paras the the number dedecratatsasaying
He would get out
Turned into a title wave
I think what was going to happen
And he gets to go out
And the george washington of his party
And he had denknow know that the conomims have been pouring out about what a wonderful president
He is
I think in chicago
He's going to be uh a beloved elder figure at the and at conconvention
And he gets to the
The end that he was convinced
Was the best thing for his party
Best chance to be dondonald trump
And the best thing for his legacy
So all eyes now turning to vice president commona
Herris who as we said bitden has endorsed ed m what comes next for her tamocaththi with me and we see
If we can make sure
We can get tam back on the line
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I was just asking about commona
Harris who of course is now very much in the spot light
What is her next stepper two
But we know from a source familiar with the events today that the president advice
President spoke mumulple time times ahead of ananouncecement
And she then released a statement after abidenence
And she said that she is honored that the president has endorsed her um
That it is her intention to earn and win the nomination um
She added that she will do everything in her power to unite the democratic party and unite the nation to defeat donald trump
At this point
We don't know yet if anyone else might throw the her had into the ring and make it a real race to the democratic convention um so far
And it is still early going um
We are seeing a ton of endorsements
Poor in for harris including from billion on hilerary clinton um
It is also notable that in south teen's other top leader um
Fellow california nancy pollosy and former president brock obama are not explicitly endorsing hharrum um
At this point
Though we ha't 't en
If anyone else throw her president to challener um
South carolina a congressman james clibre and unite bby in ally um has followed his lead
He is endorse terris um
But this morning he was on cnn making an argument that if big mortst episide the party needs to consolidate behind a nominee
Quickly
If you go to the convention
Have an open process in the convention
It will come out the same way
Came out in nineteen seventy eight nineteen
Seventy ty eight nineteen ty ty eight eight
When we had contested processes on the flow of the convention
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And as a reminder of the is ross president and dan johnson
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They all lost there was a poor fight
Then the democratat lobe so not the way democrats are hoping it will go this time
But mara since you're jumping in
I mean is there a sense among democrats that harris can
Can tually
Tually in in inindon trump
Well well there a lot of democrats
Who worry that she can't
But this is still their last best hope
And especially
If they want to keep the chance to flip the house
They need a better candidate
Now we know from polling from the m pr marris pole that harris does about as well nationally in the popular vote against trump and binden
It shshe's fifty to forty nine against trump and biin is fifty to ciin was condon't think well there public polling from the battleground states
And of course we don't elect our presidents by popular vote
What matters is what voters in michigan
In pennsylvanan
Arizonan was consin well the that a think
And we don't know that geororger as there's still a battle
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But um so that's so democrats s that harris has a better chance
They also feel she has a much better chance among millenennials and generation z uh
And they think that just having a new young dynamic ticket
Will cause an explosion of energy uh
And will unite the democratic party
And also perhaps make up some of the deficits that biitden had with young voters and uh voters of color
And there are pretty much the same universe
The younger voter there is the the browor the electorate
So that's what they're hoping for
But there is no evidence yet in polling
That she can do better than by um
It's going to be a busy week for polers
Ers coming up um ong among the rest of us
Ok
I want to be just focus on the nuts unbults of what happens in this now inside a month encounting and dedemorrats have their convention
And which was we said is going to be in chicago
Tam
What do we know about what the process looks they kinthis unproceedented movegy
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Right so millions of americans voted in caucuses and primaries earlier this year
But the man they picked is taken himself out of the race
So all of the delegates that had been pledged to him
Are now free to vote their conscience
Um
So we are now now headed for a highly convinced primary campaign
Where the only voters are the forty seven or the forty seven hundred or so delegates to the democratic national convention in chicago
If it does become a competitive race for the nomination
There could be televised town town hls ls polling to determine voter preference
But in the end
It is just this group of elected democrats
Party activists and volunteers who will decide
And if they haven't call us behind a candidate by the start of the convention
It could go through multiple rounds of voting
Until a candidate gets the majority and in the meantime one expert on the process told me
It will be like reality tv you have never seen before um at least not ince the ninenineth sixty eight convention
Um But
But there is a process for this and interestingly
There is nothing in the us constitution about how nominees are chosen this is a party process
Though for those of us
Who have only know nominees chochosen primary and caucus ses
It's going to feel pretty foreign mamabe be even little undemocratic and republicans are already playing that up
You know
And what happens if democrats are halth coalist behind a candidate
Or ah
Yeah ah the big question in this process
That tam just laid out is there there there an actual competitor to harris
That we haven't seen one emerge we have to wait
And what happmeans a real competitor
Not not a mary and williams
You know a real series compepetior
Or and there an democrats do not expect there will be one yeah
Uh
And if that's the case
Then it's not going to to be a chaotic convention
The kind of thing ccybron was worried about where you have chaos in chicago and the democrats end up losing
I think that nothing concentrates the mind like a hanging
And in this case on all trump is what conconcentrating democrats mines
And they are desperate to unifed
Behanted to candidate
And so far based on everything we're seeing
Is that there has been an outpouring of support for harris
What about what is on republicatmines or what do they saying about this
Because president trump term as you know it trump and has allilihas been
Been very not sudtle about wanting biiting to stay the nominee
They wanted to run against biden
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I was um listening to the former president's rally last night in michigan
And he thought biden was weak and beatable
He even did this like informal joking poll of his crowd asking who they thought would be the easiest to presient for him
Him take
Take on
And they overwhelmingly cheered for biden
Not so many cheers um from was was supported
Wanting him to take on harris
Trump issued a statement on truth social
After the news came out
Today saying qute crooked joe binden is not
Was not fit to run for president
And it certainly not fit to serve
And never was this is a growing theme
I don't know how listently significant it is because president bitden says he's not going anywhere
But now wspeaker
Mike johnson and other republicans are calling for biden to fit aside as president saying
If he isn't fit to run
He isn't fit to serve
Um
I'll give you both a chance
Just to give me a sentencer too closing to serve on such a day
Such a huge appeaval in the democratic party
Mora
I would say democrats are heving a big sigh of relief with a lot of anxiety
About what is to come to mmi tested a biden den ampaign volunteer
What do you think he wrote good good
I think we can win with amala
And he'll
He'll be out knocking doors
Tomorrow at is and pr senior weight house correspondent in tamr
Keith reporting there from rehobith beach delaware
Where president bibiden is recovering from covet
We've also been speaking with ampor national political correspondent moralizze
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