A Divided America Agrees: We Deserve Better Than This
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The New York Times
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🗓️ 4 July 2024
⏱️ 36 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | One week ago today, my colleague Anna was in Kenosha, Wisconsin in the rarest of circumstances. |
| 0:10.0 | Sitting in a chapel on the banks of Lake Michigan, |
| 0:12.8 | in a room of about 500 people, |
| 0:15.4 | pretty evenly divided between Republicans and Democrats |
| 0:18.9 | with a good number of independents as well. |
| 0:22.3 | This was the Braver Angels Convention, a nonpartisan group |
| 0:26.3 | committed to finding common ground. People wore lanyards with their political |
| 0:31.2 | affiliation. Red for right leaning, blue for |
| 0:35.0 | left, yellow for independent. And this evening the pews were packed for the |
| 0:40.9 | main event, the presidential debate. The I really |
| 0:55.0 | at a Trump quit or whispering nervously about Biden |
| 0:58.0 | or whispering nervously about Biden. |
| 1:00.0 | But then came the first commercial break. |
| 1:04.0 | My name is Corey Zach. |
| 1:06.0 | Corey, wearing a blue lanyer, got up to speak. |
| 1:10.0 | I have been cringing the entire time I've been watching this to the point where just |
| 1:16.9 | listening to Biden talk and responding he's really not responding in my opinion. |
| 1:25.0 | Trump's wiping the floor with him in this debate, |
| 1:27.4 | if you want my honest opinion, |
| 1:29.6 | and it's to the point watching this where I'm considering flipping my vote for me because I'm listening to Trump |
| 1:38.7 | respond to this and respond to he's doing the same thing he always does where he doesn't really answer the question that's being asked until like the very last second but |
| 1:47.5 | He's convincing me and it's taking that's taken a lot |
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