Well, I mean, on a more practical level,
Washington Post just reported in the last hour
that Senator Mark Warner is is assembling a group of
senators together to try and convince you to stand down
because they don't think you can win.
Well, Mark is a good man.
We've never had that. He also tried to get the
nomination,
too. Mark's not more. Can I have a different perspective?
I respect him.
And if Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries and Nancy Pelosi
come down and say we're worried
that if you stay in the race,
we're going to lose the House and the Senate,
how will you respond? I I go into detail with
them.
I've speaking to all of them in detail,
including Jim Climber, Everyone of them,
they all said I should stay in the race.
Stay in the race. No one said none of the
people said I should leave.
But if they do, well,
it's like
they're not going to do that.
You sure? Well, yeah, sure.
Look, I mean, if the Lord Almighty came out and
said,
Joe, get out of the race,
I'll get out of the race.
The Lord Almighty's not coming down.
I mean, these hypotheticals, George,
if, I mean if, but it's,
it's, it's not that hypothetical anymore.
I, I, I, I grant that they have not requested
the meeting,
but it's been reported. I met with them.
I've met with a lot of these people.
I've talked with them regularly.
I had an hour conversation with Hakeem.
I had more time than that than Jim Clyburn.
I spent time with many hours off and on the
last little bit with Chuck Schumer.
It's not like I had all the governors,
all the governors. I agree that the Lord Almighty is
not going to come down.
But if, if,
if you are told reliably from your allies,
from your friends and supporters in the Democratic Party,
in the House and the Senate that they're concerned you're
going to lose the House and the Senate if you
stay in,
what will you do? I'm not going to answer that
question.
It's not going to happen.
What's your plan to turn the campaign around?
You saw it today.
How many, How many features?
You get to draw crowds like I drew today.
You find many more enthusiastic than today,
huh? I mean, I don't think you want to play
the crowd game.
Donald Trump can draw big crowds.
There's no question about that.
How you can draw a big crowd.
But what's he say? Who?
Who does he have? I'm the guy supposedly in trouble.
We raised $38 million within four days after this
over. We have over a million individual contributors.
Individual contributors? That's less than 200 bucks.
Yeah. I mean,
I've not seen what you're you're proposing.
You haven't seen the the fall off in the polls.
You haven't seen the reports of discontent in the Democratic
Party,
House Democrats, Senate Democrats. I've seen it from the press.
You know, I've heard from dozens of your supporters over
the last few days and a variety of views.
I grant you that. But the prevailing sentiment is this.
They love you
and they will be forever grateful to you
for defeating Donald Trump in 2020.
They think you've done a great job as president,
a lot of successes you outlined.
But they are worried about you and the country
and they don't think you can win.
They want you to go with grace and they will
cheer you if you do.
What do you say to them?
I say the vast majority are not where that those
folks are.
I don't doubt there's some folks there.
Have you ever seen a group at a time when
elected officials running for office are a little worried?
Have you ever seen that?
I'm not. Same thing happened in 2020.
Biden. I don't know, man.
What's it going to do?
It may bring me down.
It may,
Mr. President, I've never seen a president
36% approval get re elected.
Well, I don't believe that's my approval,
right? That's not what our polls show.
And if you stay in and Trump is elected and
everything you're warning about comes to pass,
how will you feel in January?
I feel as long as I gave it my all
and I did the goodest jobs I know I can
do,
that's what this is about.
Look, George, think of it this way.
You've heard me say this before.
I think the United States and the world is at
an inflection point
where the things that happened the next several years are
going to determine the next 6-7 decades look like.
And who's going to be able to hold NATO together
like me?
Who's going to be able to be in a position
where I'm able to keep
the Pacific basin in a position where
we're
at least checkmate in China Now
who's going to who's going to do that?
Who has that reach? Who has,
who knows all these we're going to have,
I guess a good way to judge me
is you're going to have now the NATO conference here
in the United States next week.
Come listen,
see what they say.