'The Money Has Dried Up': Political Scientist Explains Pressure Biden Is Under To Drop Out

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On "Forbes Newsroom," political scientist and University of Chicago Professor Emeritus Charles Lipson discussed calls for Biden to drop out.

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00:00Do you think that within the upcoming days, weeks to the DNC, do you think he

00:08will step aside? Do you think that will reach a fever pitch where he'll come to

00:12that decision on his own? Well he's not exactly coming to it on his own. He's

00:19coming to it under tremendous pressure, but we don't know if he'll make that

00:24decision, but they don't have a horse's head to put in his bed as a threat and

00:32it's unclear what the incentives, the sort of carrot and stick, they don't have

00:37any sticks, they don't have any carrots. Now what what has changed over the past

00:44couple of weeks has been that the money has dried up and the private

00:50conversations with him have been important, but a couple of days ago, three

00:56four days ago, he went to Michigan. You remember that, Brittany? And did you

01:00notice that there were no major elected officials from Michigan who were willing

01:07to appear in the crowd? None. And that tells him something very important.

01:14That's like those when you call up some lovely woman for a date in high school

01:21and she says in three weeks and she says no I'm sorry I have to wash my hair that

01:27night. So what you're saying basically is it's a message received? Yes, well it's a

01:36message sent. Now that's been the problem. Does he receive the message? Well he may

01:41receive the message, but does it convince him? I think the problem he now

01:45faces, and he must realize it, is he won't have money to run the campaign. And I

01:52thought okay the money is being diverted down ballot because those people are

01:57petrified. The people are coming out publicly against him. This is different

02:01from the private conversations with Schumer and Pelosi and so forth. People

02:06coming out publicly are people who are in very embattled re-election

02:13efforts. They're in purple states. They're John Tester. If you hear the same thing

02:19from Casey in Pennsylvania or some of the other close races, Jackie Rosen in

02:26Nevada, that will add to the pressure. But frankly it's unclear if Kamala Harris

02:36will help much more at the top of the ticket. And if they bypass her, they'll

02:43blow up their coalition.

'The Money Has Dried Up': Political Scientist Explains Pressure Biden Is Under To Drop Out

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