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What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Buckling Up for the Debate

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Slate Podcasts

News, Daily News, News Commentary

4.32.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

It’s Trump vs. Biden—again. But CNN promises, this time will be different.


Guest: Margaret Sullivan, columnist covering media, politics and culture for The Guardian


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Podcast production by Elena Schwartz, Paige Osburn, Anna Phillips, Madeline Ducharme and Rob Gunther.


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Hey everyone, quick heads up here.

0:33.0

There's a little bit of spicy language in this one.

0:36.0

So Margaret, can you give me like a personal vibe check on this week's presidential debate?

0:44.0

Margaret Sullivan writes about the media and politics over at the Guardian.

0:52.0

Well, there's a certain amount of wanting to just hide under a couch or something,

0:58.0

which I'm also hearing from a lot of other people like, oh no, it's going to be so weird and so strange do I have to watch it.

1:06.0

Mistabeda is somehow the only thing anyone can talk about and also something a lot of people

1:10.1

seem to be carefully avoiding.

1:11.8

I think they, I think it will actually have pretty high audience ratings.

1:16.1

I think people are extremely curious about it and it just could be, I don't know, I may be doing a lot of cringing. I'm not sure

1:26.1

Tonight's debate is going to be strange for a lot of reasons. It is the earliest a presidential debate has been held

1:34.7

Before the political conventions of technically selected Donald Trump and Joe Biden as their candidates, and well before any polls open.

1:40.6

It's being run by a TV network with Trump and Biden directly, which bucks decades of precedent.

1:46.0

Then there's the fact that this debate was a bit of a surprise.

1:51.0

You know, well into 2024, it was really unclear if any debates would happen at all this year

1:58.8

Trump had famously sat out the GOP primary debates and Biden wasn't committing to debating Trump and there

2:05.7

were some people who were like don't do it like don't give him the airtime.

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