Biden and Harris set for rematch hours from now; Campaign: Biden's "primary goal" is to take on Trump
The Lead with Jake Tapper
CNN
3.5 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 31 July 2019
⏱️ 37 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello from Detroit and the beautiful and historic Fox Theater. |
| 0:08.8 | I'm Wolf Blitzer. |
| 0:09.8 | Just hours from now, CNN's Democratic presidential debate gets underway. |
| 0:14.3 | Ten candidates will line up and tonight. |
| 0:16.8 | Front runner Joe Biden will be center stage flanked by Kamala Harris and |
| 0:21.2 | Corey Booker. |
| 0:21.9 | There is every indication this second CNN debate |
| 0:25.4 | will be just as dramatic as last night's showed up. |
| 0:28.3 | A hundred percent Wolf. |
| 0:30.3 | I'm Chris Cuomo. |
| 0:31.1 | It's great to be with the captain. |
| 0:32.1 | Welcome to a special edition of the lead. |
| 0:34.3 | Of course, Anchor Jake Tapper, getting ready to moderate yet another debate tonight alongside |
| 0:40.0 | Dana Bash and Don Lemon. Now, the benefit of tonight is they got to go to school |
| 0:45.2 | on what happened with the rules and the interplay and what worked and didn't work last night. |
| 0:49.6 | So let's see you got to look at it through a little bit of a different lens. |
| 0:53.3 | And one of the questions is, will we see the more liberal candidates tonight going after |
| 0:58.2 | Biden? |
| 0:59.2 | Remember that axiom. |
| 0:59.9 | You want poise from the front runners and we have to see who makes noise on the fringes and |
| 1:04.4 | for Biden it's is he going to be hiding Biden or is he going to come out and fight? |
| 1:09.1 | We'll see let's get our coverage started let's go straight inside. |
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