Here is the full 2WAY episode and some video clips from the conversation we had BEFORE the ABC News interview, including great input and questions from the 2WAY community, including Phil Singer making the case for a third choice, besides Biden or Harris.
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FULL EPISODE:
Mark Halperin: Senior Dems Say "No Longer Tenable" for Biden to Stay
https://youtube.com/shorts/dB8hJr6Kb9Q
What I'm now reporting is that senior people on his campaign and senior people on Capitol Hill no longer believe it's tenable for the president to continue. Their belief is based on a variety of things which I'm going to talk through. But it is quite a change from from my view and my sources to you from 48 hour ago when many people that I trusted thought that he would be able to power through this. The reasons, as, say, as I say, for the change vary from person to person. But whether it's a senior person in the Biden world, either campaign staffer or a friend of President Biden's, or it's a senior leader on Capitol Hill, the universe of things they're keying off of is pretty similar. And again, I'm going to run through them, and not attribute them to any particular individual, but just know that it applies to many people who are supportive of Joe Biden personally, who think what's happening is tragic, who aren't crazy about the alternatives to Joe Biden being the nominee. But again, what unites them is the belief that it's untenable that he goes forward.
Mark Halperin: There Was a Coverup of Biden's Health
https://youtube.com/shorts/znvjooO0fgs
Over the last few days it could have been worse had his campaign team not done a lot of hand holding. But the bad press generated by the president himself has really freaked out these people and they don't think it's going to end. Remember the premise of this campaign was, whichever candidate was in the news more was going to lose between Trump and Biden and these people. My sources say, when's Joe Biden going to get out of the news? This goes on forever. And Donald Trump could probably shoot 50 people on 5th Avenue, and it wouldn't be the lead story. Number 2: There are going to be a lot more stories about the president's mental health you've already seen. Now some revisionism from my colleagues saying, well, this has been happening for months and months, and we knew all along, people are very worried about those stories and about the secondary story, about who knew what, when, and about the cover-up of it, because there was a cover-up. So these people today believe that will never end, and that will drive a lot of the coverage as will President Biden, who drove coverage in the last few days, saying he was telling the governors he'd go to sleep at 8 o’clock.
Mark Halperin: Hunter Prepared Dad for ABC Interview
https://youtube.com/shorts/hBndtlcovnY
They don't see him making urgent changes. They see the culture of the campaign changing in negative ways. He's cutting out his advisors. Some of his senior people, some of his best friends who have been his political colleagues for years, are not being consulted. I'm told that Hunter was basically the one preparing him for the ABC interview, not his communications or political staff. That has, of course, caused a lot of tension within his team. And of course, uncharacteristic for Joe Biden. He's big on privately blaming the staff when things go wrong, but not the public blaming of the staff for the debate prep. Has also shattered the culture of a campaign..They look at how he's dealing with this crisis as passive, and they look at it as indicative of his inability to do more, and that reinforces their belief that in fact, he's had a severe cognitive decline. The radio interview and the event he did yesterday. He did 2 local radio interviews and the 4th of July event. Those did not reassure people.
Mark Halperin: "Very Difficult To Bypass Kamala Harris"
https://youtube.com/shorts/Z02Dr0yyoU0
Will Kamala Harris be the designated nominee? I believe she will, for 3 main reasons. Number one, it'll be very difficult in this party to bypass her, and she wants it so she wouldn't step aside. Number 2, no one has emerged, really, as a consensus, obvious other choice. And I'm told that most of them are not interested in trying to raise money, build a campaign and withstand the assault of Donald Trump. So I'm not sure if Harris stepped aside that you'd have as many takers as people think. But the notion of challenging her for it, I'm told, given that most of them aren't interested in it. I think she'll largely be unopposed. And finally, it's just the easiest thing she gets the money, but most people, most lawyers think she can keep the money. Other people wouldn't be able to keep the money.