The Daily Signal - Biden Vows He Won't Drop Out, Trump Announces New GOP Platform, France's Election Results | July 8

Starting point is 00:00:01 President Joe Biden says he's not leaving the presidential race in a new letter today. I'm Kate Trinco, and this is the Daily Signal Top News for Monday, July 8th. President Joe Biden said he's not dropping out of the 2024 presidential race, despite the backlash from his debate performance against former President Donald Trump last month. Biden wrote in a letter to congressional Democrats this morning, I want you to know that despite all the speculation in the press and elsewhere, I am fully committed to staying in this race, to running this race to the end, and to beating Donald Trump. The Daily Signals, Tony Kinnett, reported the story.

Starting point is 00:00:47 The letter seems designed to head off calls for Biden to drop out of the race, which some expected today as the House and Senate returned to Washington, D.C. Texas Representative Lloyd Doggett became the first elected Democrat to call for Biden to drop out of the race, releasing a statement last Tuesday. He said he hoped the debate would provide some momentum for Biden, but he said that the president failed to effectively defend his many accomplishments. Early today, at least four senior Democrats in Congress had called for Biden to drop out, including Virginia Senator Mark Warner.

Starting point is 00:01:21 At a rally on Friday in Wisconsin, Biden stated that he would defeat Trump in 2020, appearing to misspeak, via R&C research. Donald Trump, I will beat him again in 2020. By the way, we're going to do it again in 2024. Pundits have suggested replacing Biden with Vice President Kamala Harris, former First Lady Michelle Obama, or Governor's Gavin Newsom, or Gretchen Whitmer. Biden's letter today cited the Democratic primaries in which Biden won large majorities of the vote. He wrote, do we now just say this process didn't matter, that the voters didn't have a say? I declined to do that. The Republican National Committee Platform Committee has adopted former President Donald Trump.

Starting point is 00:02:10 Trump's 2024 Republican Party platform, the Trump campaign announced today. This comes from a report by the Daily Signals, Mary Margaret O'Lahan. The Trump campaign described the party platform as a pro-American agenda that stands in stark contrast to the record of weakness, failure, and dishonesty created by Joe Biden, promising that Trump's platform serves as a contract with the American voter that makes clear what we can and will deliver under a President Trump administration with the Republican Party leading the country for the next four years. In a joint statement, Trump campaign senior advisors Chris Lissavita and Susie Wiles said that

Starting point is 00:02:48 the platform articulates Trump's vision to make America great again in a way that is concise and digestible for every voter. They added, while Joe Biden and Democrats argue about who will be at the top of their ticket and have implemented policies that have raised prices on everyday families, open the floodgates to migrant crime via wide open borders, shackled American energy with red tape, forced by Washington bureaucrats and sown chaos across the world through weak foreign policy, President Trump will make America great again through these America First principles. The president of the National Education Association, Becky Pringle, delivered a spirited speech

Starting point is 00:03:26 at the NEA's annual meeting over the weekend. She banged on the podium and said that the education system should be used to force transformative justice on the American people. A part of the speech was posted widely on X, including by Heritage Foundation Education Research Fellow, Jason Bedrick. The speech was criticized by Minnie on social media. Education expert Corey DeAngelis called the speech off the rails. He said in an interview with Fox News Digital, these power-hungry control freaks think they own your kids. They're in a cult that worships government and detest parents. It's time to defund teachers' unions and allow the money to follow the child. Heritage Foundation's Bedrick also said to Fox News, her overwrought, hyper-partisan tirade amounted to an advertisement for school choice.

Starting point is 00:04:55 French President Emmanuel Macron refused to accept the resignation of France's prime minister, Gabriel Attel, after a chaotic election result left the government in limbo, the Associated Press reported. Voters split the legislature on the left, center, and right, leaving no faction even close to the majority needed to form a government in a parliamentary system. The election, less than three weeks before the Paris Olympics, leaves the European Union's second largest economy and political turmoil. The French stock market fell upon opening. Prime Minister Attel offered his resignation Monday morning, but Macron, who had named him just seven months ago, asked him to stay on to ensure the stability of the country.

Starting point is 00:05:36 Atel criticized Macron's decision to call a surprise election. The results showed just over 180 seats for the new Popular Front Leftist Coalition, another 160 seats for Macron's centrist coalition, and the right-wing national rally party of Marine Le Pen and its allies took more than 140 seats. Macron has three more years in his presidential term. At least two people have died after tropical storm barrel made landfall on the Texas coast earlier today.

Starting point is 00:06:07 The hurricane hit near the coastal town of Madagorda, about 85 miles southwest of Houston, with maximum sustained winds of 80 miles an hour. More than 2.5 million customers are without power due to the storm, according to NBC News. And that'll do it for today's episode. Thank you for listening to the Daily Signal's top news. If you haven't had a chance,

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The Daily Signal - Biden Vows He Won't Drop Out, Trump Announces New GOP Platform, France's Election Results | July 8

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