53: Ben Ginsberg and Mayor Michael Coleman: James Carville and Al Hunt Discuss the Debate and the State of the Election

Politics War Room with James Carville & Al Hunt

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🗓️ 1 October 2020

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

The first presidential debate is over and James and Al declare Joe Biden the clear winner. Following favorable post-debate coverage across the platforms, and with mail-in ballot use breaking records and banking Democratic votes, it’s not looking good for President Trump. Ben Ginsburg wonders whether he's running effectively as an incumbent or if the party will collapse after he leaves office. Meanwhile Columbus Mayor Michael Coleman questions recent Democratic strategy in the Ohio battleground and whether the Biden campaign is repeating Hillary’s mistakes in misunderstanding the electorate there.

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Show Notes:

00:00 - Intro

01:00 - Less of a mess than you think

03:45 - Biden toughs it out

08:15 - The Great Divider

12:00 - No pardon without an admission of guilt

14:30 - New York's finest prosecutors

20:30 - The Ohio playbook

26:00 - The persuasion zones

28:30 - A post-industrial state

30:00 - Campaigning like there's no pandemic

35:00 - Buckeye Republicans

42:45 - The truth about ballot fraud

46:15 - A former strategy for the right

48:00 - The future of a party in distress

53:30 - The role of poll watchers

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Politics War Room with James Carville and I'm Al Hunt.
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0:41.7	James, I must tell you that I went last night and I was writing about this presidential debate
0:49.6	for the Hill and as I began I got Bash and the.
0:54.8	That's as in CNN's Dana Bash who called that debate last night a shit show and I just
1:01.8	wish I could have said that.
1:03.8	I mean Trump who has nothing to say subsequently wanted to disrupt and rattle Biden.
1:09.0	He succeeded in disrupting but with one or two exceptions he didn't rattle Joe Biden.
1:16.0	The vice president got a couple things wrong like the trade deficit but on most stuff
1:20.3	especially COVID-19, a number of Americans with pre-existing conditions Trump was on his
1:26.2	heels.
1:27.2	He got off the hook on his personal tax scandals revealed by the New York Times.
1:32.6	He just stoned one of that will not go away.
1:35.4	Just finally nobody wins a debate like this.
1:37.9	It was a god awful night but Trump lost.
1:41.1	He is clearly behind and he needed something approaching a game changer.
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