2025-01-17
17 分钟The New York senator, who swallowed concerns for months and then stalled for time on sharing them with President Biden, ultimately told him he risked going down as one of the “darkest figures.”
You may think you know the story of how Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential race,
but what you're about to hear is a scene that's never been told before.
My name is Annie Carney.
I'm a Congressional correspondent for the New York Times,
and I'm going to take you behind the scenes of a single moment
in politics last summer that changed everything.
How the Senate Majority Leader sat down one on one
with the President of the United States on the screened in porch of his Delaware beach house
and told him point blank
that he should end his reelection campaign.
My colleague Luke Broadwater
and I have been working on a book for two years about the last Congress.
It's called Madhouse.
The book is focused on House Republicans and all of the chaos that has defined them.
So all of these big moments,
from the 15 rounds of votes for House speaker to the debt ceiling fight,
we wanted to revisit them and recreate them.
But then June happened
and the whole world watched as Biden flopped in his debate against Donald Trump.
And Congressional Democrats started trying to push Biden out of the race against his will.