Bernie Versus Biden: Who Won the Debate?
Deconstructed
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🗓️ 16 March 2020
⏱️ 35 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Why don't you get rid of the super pack that you have right now, which is running very ugly negative ads about me? |
| 0:06.7 | Oh, laughter. That's just the truth |
| 0:13.5 | I'm Maddie Hussin. Welcome to a special post-debate episode of Deconstructed, which I'm recording from my house because of well, you know, |
| 0:22.4 | a certain virus, |
| 0:24.2 | hashtag social distancing. So the democratic debate. Finally, it's what we were all waiting for. Well, okay, some of us were waiting for |
| 0:34.8 | Bernie versus Biden on-stage together one-on-one, Mano-a-mano, with no Tom Steyers or Tulsi Gabbards or John Delaney's in the way. |
| 0:45.3 | And no audience either, by the way, because of the whole coronavirus scare. |
| 0:49.9 | And it was a night on which both men had their moments. Yes, even Joe. |
| 0:54.5 | Bernie, look, in the last super Tuesday and before that, Bernie outspend me two, three, four, five, six to one. |
| 1:00.4 | And I still want. I didn't have any money. And I still want. |
| 1:05.4 | But who won this all-important debate that was made all the more urgent and crucial by yes, this ongoing pandemic? |
| 1:13.2 | Who emerged victorious? |
| 1:15.0 | I'm saying that you have been on the floor of the Senate time and time again, |
| 1:25.6 | talking about the need to cut social security, Medicare and Veterans programs. Is that true? |
| 1:31.8 | No, it's not true. That is not true. That is not true. That is not true. What is true? |
| 1:35.8 | You got a hand it to Joe Biden. For weeks, he was criticized for running for president while in clear cognitive decline, |
| 1:42.4 | slammed for making gaff after gaff, accused even of suffering from dementia. |
| 1:47.3 | And yet last night's debates, or Biden, at least in the first hour, |
| 1:51.6 | CRISPR clearer, more coherent than he's ever been before. I mean, yeah, he called H1N1N1H1. |
| 2:00.4 | We've been through this before with dealing with the viruses that the N1H1. |
| 2:05.6 | But maybe that was the starter. Here's the thing though, Biden didn't spend much of the night making embarrassing mistakes. |
| 2:12.4 | Or stumbling over sentences or saying mad stuff. |
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