former president donald trump, and political historian and george washington university professor matthew dallek discusses campaign 2024 and president biden's decision to withdrawal from the presidential race. "washington journal" starts now. ♪ host: it is "washington journal" for july 23. the houses in at 9:00 today, so i two-hour program. vice president harris has set the stage to become the presidential nominee. yesterday on capitol hill, the secret service director faced tough questions from both sides of the aisle over the handling of the assassination attempt of former president trump. republicans and democrats have called for her resignation. you can comment on both events on the following lines this morning, democrats, (202) 748-8000. republicans, (202) 748-8001. independents, (202) 748-8002. you can text us at (202) 748-8003. include your first name, city, and state. you can post on facebook at facebook.com/cspan. you can also post on x at @cspanwj. the associated press' breakdown of the delegate counts as they stand from yesterday, updated early this morning, saying the vice president

host: matthew dallek joining us now, the author of the burke -- the book "mergers," -- birchers," good morning. guest: thank you for having me. host: how would you put this joe biden seven away from the race in historical context? guest: the closest omens were harry truman and lyndon johnson, 52 and 68, incumbent presidents eligible to run for another term who said -- nope, i'm not, i'm not doing this again. the other analogy to both of them is that they were very unpopular. truman, february of 1952, 20 2% approval, which is extremely low . lbj, the war in vietnam was a disaster. so, they were very unpopular nationally but also within their own parties. so, the circumstances today i think are very different. biden has obviously been drawn much deeper into the campaign, into the general election, essentially, but he's also obviously quite unpopular it it is that internal party pressure that at least, in part, i think, drove all three from seeking another term. host: for the other two that you mentioned, was it that unpopularity that was the main driver, or were there other factors? gues

former president donald trump, and political historian and george washington university professor matthew dallekiscusses campaign 2024 and president biden's decision to withdrawal from the presidential race. "washington journal" starts now. ♪ host: it is "washington journal" for july 23. the houses in at 9:00 today, so i two-hour program.

the book is about how the john birch society radicalized the american right and is written by matthew dallek. thank you for your time. guest: thanks for having me. host: the house of representatives is just about to come in. don't forget, when you go to our website, c-span.org, particularly campaign 2024, all the recent and daily updates when it comes to the current state of the presidential race, including the entry of kamala harris as the standardbearer of the democratic party, you can see all of that on c-span.org. the house is about to come in for its daily session. we take you to them now. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2024] the speaker pro tempore: the house will be in order. the chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. the clerk: the speaker's rooms e. washington, d.c. july 23, 2024. i hereby appoint the honorable john w. rose to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. signed, mike johnson, speaker of the hou