A Mega-Preview of Next Week’s Debate. Plus, James Poniewozik on Trump and TV.
The Press Box
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🗓️ 24 September 2020
⏱️ 72 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | David, we learn this week that Pete Buttigieg is playing Mike Pence in Kamala Harris' debate |
| 0:09.0 | prep. |
| 0:10.8 | What I want to know is, is there an art to picking a doppelganger to play your opponent |
| 0:17.5 | in debate prep? |
| 0:19.5 | Wow. |
| 0:21.0 | Um, I mean, the doppelganger part is big, right? |
| 0:25.7 | I mean, the ones that we remember from the past are instances of real kind of synchronicity. |
| 0:33.3 | I think that Buttigieg is a, you know, a passable Mike Pence, uh, at least, you know, they come |
| 0:38.7 | from the same state. |
| 0:39.7 | They're probably, you know, there's some physical similarities. |
| 0:43.2 | You can understand why, you know, that, that decision. |
| 0:47.0 | Um, but I'm not, I mean, I don't know. |
| 0:50.6 | If you were prepping for a debate, would you want somebody that looked kind of had the |
| 0:54.7 | specter of the person that you were going to, that you were about to line up again across |
| 0:58.6 | from or, or, or would you rather it be like, you know, just a very well organized coach |
| 1:07.0 | that like, you know, it had to, it just had a really good grasp of the thing of the way |
| 1:11.7 | that a debate might go. |
| 1:12.7 | Yeah, that's what it is, right? |
| 1:14.6 | Do you want the kind of impersonator, you know, who, who can just physically resemble |
| 1:19.0 | or do you want Sarah Cooper? |
| 1:20.2 | Right. |
| 1:21.2 | Well, anybody could have any, any of these campaigns throughout history could have |
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