How Democrats Got to a Summer of Biden Panic

09/10/2024 29 min Temporada 1
How Democrats Got to a Summer of Biden Panic

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The June debate between President Biden and former president Donald Trump triggered significant panic among top Democrats, who for months had been dismissing concerns about Mr. Biden’s age.Despite all the concerns polls showed about age, how did the Democratic Party arrive at that moment?That’s a line of inquiry The Run-Up had been putting to senior Democratic leaders for the past 18 months. And we revisited it in a special episode from June that includes selections of our interviews with Vice President Harris, former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro, Democratic National Committee chair Jaime Harrison and Ron Klain, Mr. Biden’s former White House chief of staff.
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