Bernie Sanders and Mike Bloomberg Face Debate Attacks
The NPR Politics Podcast
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4.4 • 25.7K Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2020
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Former New York City Mike Bloomberg once again faced criticism for his comments toward women. Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren accused him of telling an employee to terminate her pregnancy, which Bloomberg denies.
This episode: White House correspondent Tamara Keith, demographics and culture correspondent Juana Summers, and national political correspondent Mara Liasson.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. |
| 0:05.6 | I'm Tamer Keith. |
| 0:06.6 | I cover the White House. |
| 0:07.6 | I'm Wanda Summers. |
| 0:08.6 | I cover the campaign. |
| 0:10.2 | And I'm Mara Liesen, National Political Correspondent. |
| 0:13.5 | And the time now is 10.51 pm on Tuesday, February 25th. |
| 0:18.8 | The CBS News Democratic debate just wrapped up in South Carolina. |
| 0:23.1 | Wanda, there's a lot of noise behind you. |
| 0:25.6 | There is, I am here in the debate hall where candidates are still doing TV interviews, |
| 0:30.0 | as things have just wrapped up and giving their take on how things went tonight. |
| 0:34.1 | So as is a grand tradition in this podcast, Wanda, can you tell us who was on the stage |
| 0:40.5 | and how long they spoke? |
| 0:42.6 | All right, here we go. |
| 0:44.0 | Most speaking time was Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders with just over 15 minutes, followed |
| 0:48.8 | by former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg with 13 and a half minutes. |
| 0:53.1 | Amy Klobuchar of Senator for Minnesota was just about the same time, followed by Massachusetts |
| 0:58.0 | Senator Elizabeth Warren with 12 minutes and 51 seconds. |
| 1:02.2 | Then former Vice President Joe Biden, following him was former South Bend Indian AmeriPete |
| 1:06.9 | Buttigieg with 11 minutes and 44 seconds. |
| 1:10.0 | And with the least speaking time was the billionaire hedge fund investor Tom Steyer with |
| 1:14.7 | seven minutes. |
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