Speaker 1: All right. This is going to be a tough
one. A new New York Times report says, per five sources, that President Biden is increasingly
accepting that he cannot win in November and is going to have to drop out of the race. Now, I want
to again state if I ignore this reality, I do know one a service. I do you a disservice. If you look
at the comments on YouTube from my discussions yesterday of the fact that top Democrats are
now telling Joe Biden, you've got to step down and allow someone else to run. If you look at
the comments, they are riddled with personal attacks against me saying, I shouldn't even
be bringing this up. The fact that I'm talking about it is a problem. Folks, this is happening.
It doesn't have anything to do with me. I am a mere bit player in this entire thing and we, if
it is happening, need to be prepared to defeat Donald Trump. So let me tell you what's going
on. First and foremost, check out the article from the New York Times. People close to Biden
say he appears to accept he may have to leave the race. This account is based on interviews
with five people close to the president, all of whom are describing the situation as
delicate. Speaking on the condition of anonymity to avoid offending the president. Now, what the
sources say is that reality that the reality that others already have come to believe is setting
in for President Biden? There is the potential that President Biden will make an announcement
over the next few days that he will not be running for reelection. There is expected to be no
resignation, in other words, that Biden would say, I will not be a candidate for reelection, but I
will remain president until the next presidential term. And the, disagreement to some degree,
is it is leaning towards he would endorse his vice president, Kamala Harris. But not everyone
believes that that would necessarily be the case. And then there is the question of whether or not
he endorses Kamala Harris. Whether he would say there should be an open Democratic convention
in August. There has been a palpable shift in the last 48 hours, palpable shift. And I know
that there are people in my audience who are refusing to accept it and saying, this is merely
a story created by, I guess, me and some others. You all know if you've been watching this show
for a long time now that I have said to you, I am always going to be frank about what I believe
to be going on. And up until several weeks ago, I believed it was abundantly clear that Biden
would be the nominee in the aftermath of the presidential debate on June 27th. I told you,
while there is now more shakiness, I am still leaning towards Biden will probably be the nominee
because he seems to have most of the support of Democrats. That has changed over the last 48
hours. We have learned that top Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer has privately told the president, do
not run for reelection. You will hurt the party. Nancy Pelosi, top Democrat in the House, has said
the same thing. Hakeem Jeffries, top Democrat in the House, has said the same thing. Adam Schiff,
a top Democrat in the House seeking to be senator, has said the same thing. Jamie Raskin has said
the same thing. And now there are reports about President Barack Obama telling allies that
the path to victory for President Biden in November has been greatly diminished. It is really
difficult to imagine doesn't matter what I say, okay, it doesn't matter what I say. And I see
all of you unsubscribing because I'm telling you what's going on. It doesn't matter what I say when
you see six of the most prominent Democrats in the country saying it doesn't seem good. Polling in
swing states. Shifting to Trump, winning every single state. Major donations from Democratic
donors. Frozen. How can you ignore what seems to be right in front of our eyes as happening?
The white House is denying it. Obviously it's meaningless. And let me explain why you have to
deny it. If you're the white House up until the moment at which this is happening, you have to
deny it if you're the white House. Because if you don't, if you accept he's thinking about it,
it's over. The second the white House acknowledges he might run, he might not. It is over. So
you have to deny, in order to generate time for President Biden to do it on his own, if that's
what he decides to do. Apparently, this is being slowed down to some degree by President Biden
currently having Covid. The New York Times, story explains that there are people around Biden
who were it not for him isolating with Covid, they would be much more forcefully saying, you've
got to do it now. You've got to do it by Sunday. The reporting is that that there's a bit of
a delicate situation there because, you know, he's out sick and people aren't necessarily
going to show up and go, you got to do it and you got to do it now. The one interesting aspect
to this is that if President Biden were to make this announcement soon ish Sunday, for example,
it could really take the wind completely out of the Republican National Convention. Today is the
peak in terms of you've got the full week of the RNC. Trump's speech last night, which I believe
was a disaster. But whatever benefit Republicans and Trump will get from the RNC, it's going to
peak now and over the next 24 hours in general, by Monday, some of that will have died down.
If on Sunday or Monday, President Biden makes this announcement. It completely defeats the
RNC. They spent the entire RNC talking about Joe Biden all of a sudden, if Joe Biden's not the
guy that they're running against, that completely takes the wind out of their sails. Now, I am not
pretending. That there is an obvious, easy path to victory. If at this point President Biden were to
be replaced, and also if the replacement were to take place through a convention process in several
weeks. However, however, what is reassuring is that people who aren't even running Democrats,
who aren't even running are already polling in the 40s against Trump in hypothetical polling. If
they prominently become the replacement to Biden at the convention and then have the appearance of
being much more fit with it and ready to go right up against Trump. It's completely conceivable to
me that the low 40s to mid 40s polling that these non candidates have, as their name recognition
goes up and media coverage goes up, could lead to extraordinarily positive results for Democrats
in November. That's the optimistic perspective. So this is the latest reporting. I know that there
are people in my audience who are furious about this. They're look at the comments to my interview
with Nicholas Kristof yesterday. Biden, please. No, no, no, don't even think about stepping down,
David. You're despicable for even talking about this. This is sure disaster. The consensus that is
building among top Democrats is that, of course, having the incumbent president change plans and
say, I'm not running for reelection in late July, early August has huge risk associated with it.
But the belief is that continuing on has risks that are just as significant, if not greater.
That's the belief among top Democrats. Now we can all argue about it. We can all talk about
what we think is best and how it should be done, and who the replacement should be. There are
now concerns, including from people like AOC, that many of the people that want Biden to
step aside would not accept Kamala Harris, even if she is the one who is selected. That could
be a major problem. What is absolutely going to be disaster is if Biden does step aside the way
so many people have been arguing for him to do. Kamala Harris is the replacement. And then all the
very same people saying Biden should step aside, say, oh, I'm not supporting Kamala. I don't like
her either. That will be a disaster. Okay. Trump wins. If that happens, let's not put the cart
before the horse. Let's not count chickens before they hatch. Let's use whatever analogies and
metaphors are relevant to you. But this is the discussion. Increasingly, reporting is indicating
Biden could be out as soon as come Monday morning. We will follow it closely, and I will let
you know, if we hear anything on our end