A More Muted Presidential Debate
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🗓️ 23 October 2020
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Last night Biden and Trump faced off in the second and final presidential debate. It was less interrupt-y and the candidates discussed everything from the pandemic to climate change and racism. We break down what Biden and Trump had to say, and the biggest news leading into the night.
And in headlines: Remdesivir approved, Pompeo signs an anti-abortion declaration, and a beautiful green dog is born in Italy.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Friday, October 23rd. I'm Achila Hughes. |
| 0:08.8 | And I'm Gideon Resnick and this is what the day where we are choosing our president purely based on who claims to know more about wind. |
| 0:14.4 | Yeah, I mean, can you name the colors of them? Is there a mighty one? Can you explain the waves? We have questions. |
| 0:22.0 | We need another debate where we ask these questions to both the candidates. |
| 0:26.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:34.6 | On today's show, the second and final presidential debate, then some headlines. |
| 0:43.6 | They want to knock down buildings and build new buildings with little tiny, small windows. |
| 0:48.6 | I mean, and many other things and many other things. Let me have the vice president. |
| 0:52.0 | We're running out of time. We have a lot. |
| 0:57.4 | Okay, so last night in Nashville, vice president Joe Biden and president Trump debated for a little over 90 minutes. |
| 1:04.2 | The candidates discussed Trump's pandemic response, healthcare, racism, climate change, immigration and more. |
| 1:10.2 | There was a mute button and maybe the fear of it is what made the debate far more typical than last time. |
| 1:15.4 | We got to hear at least some uninterrupted answers and strange new phrases from Trump like AOC plus three and a date called November third. |
| 1:24.4 | Similar to a tribe called Quest, I guess. |
| 1:27.4 | We're going to break it all down, but first a lot has happened in the three weeks since Biden and Trump last met in person for their first debate at the end of September. |
| 1:35.4 | For one, Trump got COVID-19 likely at a super spreader event he hosted at the White House. |
| 1:40.4 | That and his wild, interrupting performance in the first debate seemed to have damaged him further in the polls. |
| 1:46.4 | And while he was receiving aggressive treatment to recover from COVID and returning to the campaign trail to continue downplaying the virus and criticizing scientists, |
| 1:54.4 | the pandemic has only gotten worse. New daily cases in the US are above 60,000 over 11 million people are out of work and there's still no relief bill. |
| 2:03.4 | And then there's the election, which is very much happening right now. |
| 2:06.4 | Over 47 million people have voted compared to just over a million as of the first debate, which is way more than what's normal by this point in the campaign. |
| 2:14.4 | It's also more than the total early vote in 2016. |
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