least three more candidates, but the final verdict in anyone’s favor will be made at the democratic party conventionala haris is the most obvious candidate from the democratic party and so far the only one who has declared her desire to become president; she was vice president in the biden administration for all 4 years. it is believed that she will be the fastest to organize an election campaign. in addition, according to the latest popularity polls, haris. even surpassed the incumbent leader of the country, she is 59 years old, was previously a senator from california, and before that she worked as attorney general in the same state. in 2019, haris already took part in the democratic party primary for the presidential nomination, but withdrew her candidacy in favor of joe biden. in 2021, she became the first black woman vice president. for moscow, achieving the goals of the ied is a priority. and not the results of the us presidential election, stated presidential press secretary dmitry peskov. in a conversation with reporters, he noted: you need to be patient, a lot can change in 4 months, well,

kamala haris is gaining a sufficient number of votes from delegates to the upcoming democratic party conventionreuters reports, formally confirming her status as a candidate for us president. in 24 hours , the politician's election campaign raised more than $80 million. at home canceled nine visits over the next 2 weeks, including official presidential meetings, the publication notes the decision is not related to covid-19, which was diagnosed in politics, which causes: fears for the capacity of the american leader. in addition, according to the memorandum on the delegation of functions and powers, biden assigned the responsibility for sponsoring kiev to the us state department and the us treasury. the commanders of the great victory, each made an invaluable contribution to the defeat of fascism. it was from them that soviet soldiers waited for orders that would decide the outcome of the battles in the summer of '44. by the time the operation was completed, bogration was secured in position. front commanders, the most outstanding commanders, the most.

presidential race there now just weeks to go until this is democratic convention, where he would have been officially annoying to does his parties presidential know me? the question now is, what happens next? how will the democrats select and you know, many one on surveys, 3, what is known as an open convention. the last time the democrats held and open convention was in 1968. it descended into chaos as tempest flood, or that the vietnam war both inside and outside the building rest. somehow, this is one of the reasons the rules were changed and policies have since last year to clear orders or not. but my boss remains a legitimate way of picking the candidates. it means rather than confirming and no memories selected in the primaries. as by doing was delegates we'd have to choose a new nominated in an open and potentially fis competition. this year around 99 percent of some full 1000 delegates that the democratic national convention a pledge to the jury biden. but now that he has stepped aside, they are free to box, which has a candidate they want. critics, if the open convention method say it would be a free for all which could

dislike for the shake up in the us presidential race comes less than a month ahead of the democratic party convention in chicago, while campbell, our is now up as most likely to replace joe biden, some i'm calling for the nomination process to be thrown open us president joe biden has withdrawn from the presidential race there now just weeks to go until this is democratic convention where he would have been officially annoying to this is parties. presidential norman, me, the question now is what happens now.

kamala haris as his successor, they hope that he will favor an open process so that at the democratic party conventionchicago the presidential candidate is chosen from a list, which will feature kamala haris and several other candidates. the supposed draft of biden's farewell speech is already. published. here are the main points of biden's likely speech. the most important thing now is to save the soul of america. our democracy is in danger. this election must be won. to succeed , we need the trust of all americans. i believed and still believe that i could do this job. but it has become clear that most americans want someone younger than both candidates to fill the job. it is significant what some delegates to the republican convention are saying. against biden’s withdrawal from the race, apparently the current american leader is such a convenient opponent that it’s a pity to lose such a thing. georgiy lisashvili, artyom pekhterev, yuri rublev, channel one usa. in the center of tel aviv this night, an explosion occurred just a few tens of meters from the american consulate. according to local media,

there are now just weeks to go until this is democratic convention, where he would have been officially annoying to this is parties, presidential norman me. the question now is, what happens next? how will the democrats select and you know, many one on surveys? 3, what is known as an open convention. the last time the democrats held and open convention was in 1968. it descended into chaos as tempest flagged the vietnam war, both inside and outside the building rest. somehow this is one of the reasons the rules were changed and parties have since last did clear orders about before i bought it remains a legitimate way of picking the candidates. it means rather than confirming and normally selected in the primaries as binding was delicate, so we'd have to choose a new nominated in an open and potentially fis competition this year. around 99 percent of some full 1000 delegates that the democratic national convention a pledge to the joe biden. now that he has stepped aside, they are free to box, which has a candidate they want. this is probably inviting, has already endorsed covent vice president carmella harris to be

precisely, for the presidential post from one or another party is approved by the party convention of the republican or democraticty, respectively. chronic senile insanity of the current american president, it turns out that , so to speak, they turned out to be absolutely right, and those, so to speak, prominent representatives of both the administration and the leadership of the democratic party, who here proved to us, most recently, that biden is the greatest genius of all time , it turns out they were simply cynically lying. so this decision itself is a big plus for the presidential donald trump's campaign. the second very important point is that kamala harris, so to speak, as a politician, as a statesman, as i have already mentioned, has not shown herself at all. on the contrary, in american politics, in the american, among the american public at large, a firm understanding of mrs. haris as a person has been established. completely incapable , so to speak, of leadership activities and , frankly speaking, this is not a very successful replacement, well, all measurements of public opinion show that if mrs. khar

look, we have the democratic party convention in august, and in september, around september , there willthe second and last debate with trump. it's hard work and then the pressure on the democratic party is more, so if they want to replace the candidate, they should do it before the convention and they can have an advertising power for their new candidate. this is also an important point. look at us last year. in the previous two years in the pennsylvania senate elections, we saw that mr. john fetterman, who was competing for the senate at that time in the democratic race , had a stroke the day before the democratic primaries. he was 52 years old and had so-called speech problems. finding speech in the democratic primary he won and in november he was able to defeat the opponent of the republic of iran, but two or three months after he entered the senate, these speech problems were still there and he was even admitted to walter reed military hospital due to severe depression . this happened to a 52-year-old man. and it was completely unexpected . now for an 81-year-old person, it can be a

program from 60 minutes predicted a lot, and we remembered. sixty-eighth year, indeed, the democratic party conventionn chicago, and also the president, a unique case, who was supposed to become a presidential candidate again, refused in favor of the current vice president, but if we continue the analogies, we remember how the story ended then, the democratic candidate, vice-president humphrey lost disastrously to nixon, well, hegel taught us that history repeats itself twice, if you look at what, by the way, he began to do. very weak, but what kind of president did he become? and the german crisis, and nuclear weapons, a lot of things he did, we’ll now get to kamala harris, i’m talking about what trump can do, because there is, of course, very little belief in resetting relations with china, but attempts to still start negotiations with russia, if only, if not reboot, then at least somehow try to push one by one, i think that... it’s quite possible, as for kamala haris, andrei konstantinovich has already buried her, but i agree with valentin bogdanov that it actually seems to me too early, yet make p

his ratings or his voter base, but, if such an event happens, let's say, closer to the democratic party convention, which, i will remind you, will be in mid-august, then a possible replacement could play into the hands of the democrats, because the republican party convention will take place almost a month before the question of whether biden would be willing to withdraw, from my perspective, depends on the... but who are the people who can influence him, who will joe biden listen to? these are essentially two groups of people, we clearly see in the last week that he is actively communicating about this with his family, and he is also actively discussing such options with his headquarters, that is, with his experts, political technologists and advisers. so far, we do not have any information that such discussions have spread anywhere more widely to the general establishment of the democratic party, or to the upper management party, therefore, most likely, we are talking about the fact that only biden's closest circle is really helping him analyze this situation and come to a conclusion. yes, well

to participate in pre-election debates with kamala haris with any other democratic candidate, no matter who the party conventioninates in mid-august. i wouldn't worry about them, forget about who represents them, look, they just have terrible policies, open border, bad military policies, their world is falling apart, democrats waste money on things that don't work, this is all a complete mess, calls for biden to resign, after his refusal to participate in the elections are becoming louder and louder than the republican camp, with such... demands , following the speaker of the house of representatives johnson , have already been made by j.d. vance, who was elected by trump the day before, in as a running mate in the battle for the white house, but the white house has said biden intends to remain president until the end of his term, which is january, when he is expected to hand over power to the winner of the presidential election. but kamali harris now has to be taken bear the entire burden of conducting the election campaign. one of the main advantages, at least for democrats, is that haris is the first. what e

but biden will continue to fight for at least 2 more months until the democratic party convention ingo. moreover, recent polls conducted in key swing states show a paradoxical reduction in biden’s gap from trump by only 2%. that is , it seems that only a voice from heaven can convince him to withdraw from the election race. dmitry melnikov. pavel kostrikov and gleb napara, news from washington. the delicious calendar returns to a tasty point. we give 100% cashback every friday when paying with alfabank cards. introducing the new, perfect taste of baltika 7 non-alcoholic, brewed from 100% malt and hops. new baltika 7 non-alcoholic. feel the perfection of taste. this is not the mating season of parrots, this is a promo code for 100% cashback from ostrovka. book your hotel apartment and take part in the drawing. to the moss exhibition. or maybe to me? better at a tasty point. check out the clip. a real reason to meet the super box with clips of hello kitty and her friends, hurry up to buy and win a trip. travel with alfabank, choose where to fly in the alfa travel service and receive a

obama, who just the day before insisted on an open choice of candidate at the upcoming democratic party conventioneverything may turn out to be more complicated. about the relationship between biden and obama the day before donald trump opened up. "barack obama is still plotting against you, trying to get you out. first of all, obama hates biden, biden hates obama, when obama saw off biden a couple of weeks ago." from the stage he didn't need to do that, he could have waved at people a little more like joe, but suddenly obama appears and grabs joe like a child. but his vice-presidential candidate is already in full swing on the election track, j.d. vance’s first solo performance in radny agai opens voters’ eyes to the nature of the american establishment. the idea of ​​picking a democratic candidate because george soros, barack obama and a couple of elite democrats got together. in a smoke filled room and decided to throw joe biden overboard, this is not how it should work, this is a threat to democracy, not to the republican party, which fights for democracy every single day. against this backgro

party pick another candidate? one option is what is known as an open convention to us president joe biden has withdrawn from the presidential race there. now just weeks to go until this is democratic convention, where he would have been officially annoying to does his parties presidential know me? the question now is, what happens next? how will the democrats select and you know, many one on surveys? 3, what is known as an open convention. the last time the democrats held and opened convention was in 1968. it descended into chaos as tempest flagged over the vietnam war, both inside and outside the building rest. somehow this is one of the reasons the rules were changed and parties have since last year to clear orders without the slight bought it remains a legitimate way of picking the candidates. it means rather than confirming and nominee selected in the primaries as biting was delicate. so we'd have to choose a new nominated in an open and potentially phase competition this year, around 99 percent of some full 1000 delegates that the democratic national convention a pledge to the jury biden. but now that he has stepped aside, they are free to back. whichever kind of that they wa

democratic party. the republicans have just wrapped up republicans have just wrapped up their republican national convention trump. the cows of the democratic party has been to their advantage. the democrats all want to try to hurry the process up and get behind one candidate, which at the moment seems to be kamala harris. ., _, _ ., , harris. how copycat it does that make _ harris. how copycat it does that make it _ harris. how copycat it does that make it for _ harris. how copycat it does that make it for the - harris. how copycat it does - that make it for the democrats, considering where just four months away from the american elections, and a lot has changed? —— how difficult does it make it. it changed? -- how difficult does it make it— it make it. it is complicated but not impossible. - it make it. it is complicated but not impossible. i- it make it. it is complicated but not impossible. i thinkl but not impossible. i think this is why you are seeing so many members of the democratic party come out to stand behind kamala harris. interestingly the former president, president 0bama, a democratic party

obama, who just the day before insisted on an open choice of a candidate at the upcoming democratic party conventionnd here everything may turn out to be more complicated, about the relationship between biden and obama, donald trump opened up the day before. obama still . builds forges against you, trying to remove you. first of all, obama hates biden. biden hates obama. when obama i escorted biden off stage a couple of weeks ago; he didn’t have to do that. against this background, the visit to washington of israeli prime minister netanyahu looks completely out of place; no one from the biden team was able to meet him at the airport, while it is reported that it will be kamala haris, not joe, who will receive the guest from israel in the white house biden, a meeting between netanyahu and trump during this visit is quite possible. today, as expected, in the afternoon, joe biden will return to washington for the first time after almost a week of isolation, and will appear alive before the country in the new capacity of the outgoing president. it is not reported whether biden will make any statements,

presidential race there now just weeks to go until this is democratic convention where he would have been officially annoying to this is parties, presidential norman me. the question now is, what happens next? how will the democrats select and you know, many one on surveys, 3, what is known as an open convention. the last time the democrats held and open convention was in 1968. it descended into chaos as tempest flagged over the vietnam war, both inside and outside the building rest. somehow this is one of the reasons the rules were changed and parties have since last year to clear board is without the slight bought it remains a legitimate way of picking the candidates. it means rather than confirming and nobody selected in the primaries, as by doing was delegates would have to choose a new nominator in an open and potentially fis competition. this year, around 99 percent of some full 1000 delegates that the democratic national convention a pledge to the joe biden. now that he has stepped aside, they are free to box, which has a candidate they want. this is probably invited, has already endorsed covent vice president carmella

confirmation: the vice president is supported by more than 2,500 delegates to the upcoming democratic party convention00 are needed to win in the first round, and although these data are not yet official or final, it is unlikely that anyone in the party will be able to compete with haris, at least no other democrat has said, that the nomination will be sought. joe biden, after withdrawing from the presidential race, canceled nine work trips, they were planned for the next 2 weeks, the new york post reports. journalists emphasize that among the visits there were not only election events, but official presidential meetings. let me remind you that joe biden made the decision to withdraw from the election race against the backdrop of record low ratings. and even media outlets loyal to the democratic party have recently fiercely criticized the policies of the administration of the american president. the most significant and resonance. joe biden was elected president in november 2020, having received the support of 81 million voters, according to official data; supporters of donald trump did not recognize

presidential race there now just weeks to go until this is democratic convention, where he would have been officially annoying to this is parties. presidential norman me. the question now is, what happens next? how will the democrats select and you know, many one on service, 3, what is known as an open convention. the last time the democrats held and open convention was in 1968. it descended into chaos as tempest plus the vietnam war, both inside and outside the building rest somehow, this is one of the reasons the rules are changed and policies have since last year to clear orders about before i bought it remains a legitimate way of picking the candidates it means rather than confirming and nominee selected in the primaries, as by doing was, delegates would have to choose a new nominated in an open and potentially fis competition. this year around 99 percent of some full 1000 delegates that the democratic national convention a pledge to the jury binding. but now that he has stepped aside, they are free to back whichever candidate they want. critics of the open convention method say it would be a free for all which could expose

the primary select delegates to the convention, but the legal authority for choosing the to the nominee, the democratic party or from for that matter, the republican party is not the primaries. it is the delegates voting. in convention. when that happens, you have a formal domini, your on every ballot in the country, you get federal election campaign money, i mean, etc, etc. q the democrats scrambling to find a loophole to replaced by them before that convention. one long time democratic operatives, james. so i'll be sent a memo to party bras suggesting that the way to go would be to have biden dismissed himself and instructed the party not just named vice president, calmly, harris to replace them as presidential candidate. but instead, order that the party need to lay out a quote, one month campaign schedule to select the parties. nominate how would they do that given that bite and says that he doesn't wanna leave, took him into signing onto it by telling him that it's just the order for him for the next month, supply of ice cream and won't be the weights are busy. tried to engineer a solution in america th

presidential race there now just weeks to go until this use democratic convention where he would have been officially annoying to this is parties. presidential norman me. the question now is, what happens next? how will the democrats select and you know, many one on series? 3, what is known as an open convention. the last time the democrats held and open convention was in 1968. it descended into chaos as tempest plus the vietnam war, both inside and outside the building rest somehow, this is one of the reasons the rules were changed and policies have since the clear orders about before i bought it remains a legitimate way of picking the candidates. it means rather than confirming a nominee selected in the primaries, as by doing was, delegates would have to choose a new norm and then in an open and potentially fis competition this year, around 99 percent of some full 1000 delegates that the democratic national convention a pledge to the joe biden, but now that he has stepped aside, they are free to box, which has a candidate they want. this is probably invite in, has already endorsed comment vice president coming to hire us to b

obama, who just the day before insisted on an open choice of candidate at the upcoming democratic party conventionere everything may turn out to be more complicated. donald trump opened up about the relationship between biden and obama the day before. bara obama is still plotting against you, trying to get you. first of all obama hates biden, biden hates obama, when obama walked biden off stage a couple of weeks ago, he didn't have to do that, he could have waved at people a little more hand like joe, but suddenly obama appears and grabs joe like a child. but his vice-presidential candidate is already in full swing on the election track, j.d. vence’s first solo performance in his native agai opens voters’ eyes to the nature of the american establishment. the idea of ​​choosing the democratic candidate because george soros, barack obama and a couple of elite democrats got together in a smoke filled room and decided to throw joe biden overboard, this is not how it should work, this is a threat to democracy, not the republican a party that fights for democracy every single day. against this backgroun

reached on a candidacy for the elections in november about his candidate at the upcoming democratic party convention things can get more complicated. donald trump opened up about the relationship between biden and obama the day before. barack obama is still plotting against you, trying to remove you. first of all, obama hates biden. biden hates obama. when obama walked biden off stage a couple of weeks ago, he didn't have to do that. he could have waved at people a little more like joe, but suddenly obama shows up. and grabs joe like a child. and here is his candidate for vice president already in full swing on the election track. j.d. vance's first solo performance in his native ohio opens voters' eyes to the nature of the american establishment. the idea of ​​choosing the democratic nominee because george soros, barack obama and a couple of elite democrats got together in a smoke-filled room and decided to throw joe biden overboard is not how it should work. this is a threat to democracy, not... to the republican party, which fights for democracy every single day. against this background, the visi

presidential race there now just weeks to go until this is democratic convention where he would have been officially annoying to this is parties. presidential norman me. the question now is, what happens next? how will the democrats select and you know, many one on sirius, 3, what is known as an open convention. the last time the democrats held in open convention was in 1968. it descended into chaos as tempest splutter that the vietnam will both inside and outside the building rest. somehow this is one of the reasons the rules were changed and parties have since the clear orders about before i bought it remains a legitimate way of picking the candidates. it means rather than confirming and no memories selected in the primaries, as by doing was delegates would have to choose a new norm and then in an open and potentially fit competition this year around 99 percent of some full 1000 delegates that the democratic national convention a pledge to the joe biden, now that he has stepped aside, they are free to buck, which has a kind of that they want. this is probably invite in, has already endorsed cover and vice president coming to

the head of the white house himself said that he did not. objects if the delegates to the democratic party conventiont nominate him, while he is convinced that he received overwhelming support at the primary. biden once again stated that he does not need treatment, that doctors do not suggest that he undergo additional medical examination. vladimir putin visited the oranienbaum palace and park complex in st. petersburg. the president got acquainted with the results of the restoration completed on the southern shore of the gulf of finland. together with the head states walked through historical places. gazprom board alexey miller. the tour of the restored architectural monument began with a visit to the kotalnaya gorka pavilion. also in varanenbaum, at the end of his working trip to st. petersburg, vladimir putin met with the governor of st. petersburg, alexander beglov. we discussed the socio-economic situation in the region, including the issue of indexation of pensions for working pensioners. gratitude from working pensioners, we have 1.5 million people, of which, we imagine, 400,000 are working, i

democratic party in the elections? well, in fact , the democratic party can't directly yet to influence biden's decision, until the democratic party convention takes place, which i will remind you will be in august, in no way can the party influence biden's decision, of course there are conversations with him, of course we see the statements of some democratic senators and congressmen, but for now this decision is exclusively can approve only joseph ba, we must understand that a replacement is being sought for him, that active work is underway to understand who the new candidate can be, how he can work, with what messages he should go out to people, and so on, because really biden and physically and politically, he may no longer be able to withstand competition with trump, especially now that trump has strengthened his own ideological positions so much. and don’t you think, mr. oleksandr, that now biden is just wasting time, that is, he , i get the impression that he has already made this... decision, this is his joking, when he speaks and gets confused in words, behavior, i personally get the impression that he has already made this decisio

forjoe biden, there has been so much scrutiny on the democratic party, whereas the republicans, they have just wrapped up the republican national conventione all got behind donald trump, and the chaos of the democratic party had been to their advantage. democratic party had been to theiradvantage. so democratic party had been to their advantage. so the democrats will want to try and hurry this process out and get behind one candidate, which at the moment seems to be kamala harris. 50 the moment seems to be kamala harris. ., , ., , harris. so how complicated does that make _ harris. so how complicated does that make it _ harris. so how complicated does that make it for _ harris. so how complicated does that make it for the _ harris. so how complicated does that make it for the democrats, | that make it for the democrats, considering we are just four months away from the american elections, and a lot has changed?— elections, and a lot has changed? elections, and a lot has chanced? , , ., changed? its, get it but not impossible. _ changed? its, get it but not impossible. i— changed? its, get it but not impossible. i think - changed? its, get

and get toward the democratic party conventionnd democrats look to decide which debate stage kamala harris will be trying out for. >> very quickly, eli, this is still early in the cycle technically speaking. a lot still is at play and can certainly happen. where to from here in this race? what happens next? what is the big focus points that you will be looking out for? >> i think we're going to watch for how the american people respond to donald trump this week. i know we talked about some sort of public facing softening of the former president's image. this is taking some attention off president biden. i think it might slow some of the calls from democratic officials for his ouster from the nominee. then, you know, we'll watch how he performis as we get closer t the democratic national convention next month. see how he brings the democratic party together with the way donald trump is bringing the represent party together here. >> eli yokeley, thank you. >>> coming up on the show, paris olympics are just days away. tanya spoke wit

democratic national committee, our party leadership, and i have decided to move forward with the selection of the next highest ranked presidential candidate, whose contenders will begin to compete between. ourselves, starting now until the democratic national conventionrageously agreed to participate in this, even though democratic party voters are no longer able to participate in the primary, their delegates will make the final decision at the democratic party convention. the article is called to pay attention to the fact that if biden had uttered these words, well, that is, they were literally thrown out. are you sure you can handle it? look at rtr. i am asking for official permission to court you. what? so why not allow it? look after me, did you just get laid? so what, how is she doing? oh, i don’t know, what can i say, now that’s it, that’s it, i’ll have to get married. everyone can see that we have a small town. everyone knows about each other, they hear everything, they found the killer, just don’t talk to anyone, okay, we agreed, he’ll tell everyone everything, but in a big secret, the mask will now be absorbed, and i’ll run away for now, okay, raya, raya knows everything, so contact me , from monday on Рrt. you look 100 to one, what is our t

she gained enough votes from delegates at the upcoming democratic party convention. ove, it seems to me, when for a whole week everyone was just discussing how the assassination attempt on trump was demonstrated these heroic pictures with a bloodied trump, with his hand raised, suddenly bam, a week later. almost no one says anything about it now says, and this of course, you know, everyone is discussing kamala haris, this of course was certainly a wonderful pr move, they were still able to steal the democrats’ agenda from the republicans, it was very strong, now we see that only in congress yesterday the day before yesterday they discussed the resignation of kimberly cheatle, the failure of the secret service, but few people paid attention to it, because everyone was only discussing... biden's decision to leave the presidential race, and how did it happen that in 24 hours, you know, i was in yesterday's speech , televised address. rule america, and it is ruled by the people, everyone seemed to see in this a message to geopolitical rivals, enemies of america, his words

the democratic party convention is an august and he'll face trump in another debate in september. and if he is convinced to step aside his successor will have a narrow window to make an impression on voters before election day. since mom had elders era for inside story the that's bringing our guest now in washington dc is a scott bolden, chair of the national bar association, political action committee, and former chair of the washington d. c. democratic party in dallas, texas were joined by ronnie at beatrice. the veteran democratic party strategist and christian wolf is the chairperson of den across the broad u. k. we chose the same status as a state political party. kristen is joining us from working in the united kingdom. thank you to all 3 of you for being on inside story today. we appreciate your time, scott. let me start with you in washington dc. as of now, the bite and campaign is projecting confidence that he will remain the nami need, but just looking at the chaos over the last week or so, does this look to you like a campaign that's ready to go out and when a well, it'

happens next, is there is some kind of rushed leadership debate for the convention, the democrat party conventionpart of the primary voting process that has been going on for months? will he endorse someone like as vice president kamala harris or will there be other people putting themselves forward, gavin newsom one name mentioned the governor of california, it is unlikely both he and kamala harris will be on the same ticket given they are from the same state, the governors gretchen whitmer of michigan, josh shapiro of pennsylvania these are highly weighted individuals but they have also in the past couple of hours alone, thatjoe biden in the meeting he had in person and virtually with these a set of governors, they say they are standing with the president. there would have to be as a change of circumstances for them to try to rally a challenge against him. the status quo as it stands is that joe biden will continue to be the candidate even though polls show them trailing behind donald trump with four months to go until americans vote in november. to go until americans vote in november-— to go u

would mean the result stays as it appears to be that she will go into the party, the democratic party's national convention rapid movement on things and that follows the endorsement of a very powerful figure today on the democratic party, nancy pelosi, the former speaker of the house. she weighed in behind kamala harris is indeed have several other key members of the party, among them a bill —— hill and of the party, among them a bill —— hilland hillary of the party, among them a bill —— hill and hillary clinton. of the party, among them a bill —— hilland hillary clinton. if you couple that with the fact that she has achieved amazing fundraising in the space of just 24 hours, the coffers were swelled to the tune of $81 million, we are told. that is a record within that timeframe. it does seem that she has been anointed by the party's leadership. president biden has given her his endorsement but is there still a prospect that you could have a trouble maker event putting their hand up and trying to muddy the waters? it is interesting that many of the potential rivals to kamala harris have come out and endors

looks very likely that harris will be the nominee going into the democratic national convention next month. that said, the democratic party does have the challenge of being democratic, which it has a long history of not being very democratic. if you look at how nominees were picked in 2016 in 2020. and now this process despite the party saying that we're going to have an open process is going to be transparent. this can be an opportunity for democratic voters to have their say none the less. they also at the same time, are facing this paradox, where they need to quickly coalesce around a candidate and democracy is not a great way of doing anything very quickly. so they're facing that challenge of making it appear or making it not appear like what people are calling a coordination that there is actually a fight for harris, how to make her case. but right now it looks like things are just falling into place after biden's step aside. she is, you have to announce or running mid william, do we know who it could be? i think the report we saw made uh, you know, laid out the case very nicely and it's a shame to be so reduction ju

democratic party. i wrote a book about it. the democratic party benefits by exciting engaged conventions. oes not harm the democratic party. it will not harm joe biden if it is an in exciting convention. what will harm the democratic party is if they so diminish this convention that when people get to chicago everything has been done but some speeches. amy: when it comes to the democratic national convention, you have president biden saying what during his nato press conference. delegates can vote their conscience. what does that mean? >> depending on whether we believe it. i am not questioning joe biden but it is a relatively formal step to release your delegates to say you can vote for who you want. some people's interpretation is that is what he was saying. i would like to see a little more backup on that before it happens. essentially, that is what nikki haley did. nikki haley said her delegates were released and they can vote for who they wanted. they can vote for donald trump. the challenge on this at the democratic convention works like this. most of biden stoners would probably vot