Capehart and Ponnuru on Harris' debate success and Trump's embrace of conspiracy theories
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🗓️ 13 September 2024
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| 0:00.0 | The presidential debate marks a major moment in the race for the White House and |
| 0:05.1 | Donald Trump comes under scrutiny for conspiracy theories. On that and more of |
| 0:10.0 | the week's news we turn to the analysis of Kpart and Penuru. That's |
| 0:13.9 | Jonathan Kapart, associate editor for the Washington Post and Ramesh |
| 0:17.6 | Penuru editor for National Review. David Brooks is away. Great to have you |
| 0:21.9 | both here. |
| 0:23.0 | So three days after that first debate between Vice President Harris, former President Trump, |
| 0:27.5 | there's only one poll that we've seen so far conducted in the days after. |
| 0:31.0 | It gives us a limited view of the impact so now we see |
| 0:34.1 | Vice President Harris up with 47% to Trump's 42% nationally in the latest Reuters |
| 0:41.5 | ipsoe poll. |
| 0:43.2 | Jonathan, it's hard to say just yet |
| 0:45.4 | what the impact of the debate will be. |
| 0:47.0 | We hope there'll be more polls coming up soon, |
| 0:48.8 | but the Harris campaign clearly feels good |
| 0:50.8 | about what happened. |
| 0:51.8 | I guess the question is, did she do enough in the |
| 0:53.9 | debate to answer questions that voters had about who she is as a leader in her |
| 0:58.7 | policies? Well for being honest yes and no and then the Harris campaign should be excited about |
| 1:05.7 | where things are they went into the debate with the momentum momentum at their back and |
| 1:10.4 | her performance arguably was superb. |
| 1:14.7 | And on the one hand she answered questions |
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