DEBATE DEBRIEF: Did Last Night's Presidential Debate Serve the American People?
SmartHERNews
Jenna Lee
5 • 615 Ratings
🗓️ 28 June 2024
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Politicians and the press work for you, the American people, and at SmartHER News, we will never lose sight of that. Today we take a step back to discuss the first presidential debate of the 2024 election … without the clutter.
Topics include:
- CNN’s debate formatting.
- Notable exchanges between the top-two Presidential candidates, including the viral golf exchange.
- The nuances of fact-checking on live television.
- A sampling of soundbites from political commentators and politicians.
- The polls, plus an important caveat.
- The questions Jenna would ask the candidates … their standard for the U.S. Presidency and the responsibility of protecting our children, the next generation.
- What’s next? (A Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity, lawmakers on the record about last night’s event, Fmr. Pres. Trump’s sentencing, and the unknown.)
- ... and we close with the final statement of independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. during the alternative debate he hosted last night.
Thank you for believing in quick, concise, nonpartisan news. Real news for real people.
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Show Notes
RFK Jr.'s Live Stream of The Real Debate - TheRealDebate.com (also available via @robertfkennedyjr on X)
CNN Presidential Debate full broadcast - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-v-8wJkmwBY
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, everybody. Welcome to Smart News. My name is Jenna, and it's great to see you today. We are having a |
| 0:08.9 | little bit of a connectivity issue with our Instagram accounts. I wanted to double check and get them up |
| 0:13.4 | live too. The more or the merrier. We say this in summer. You know, it's more fun when there's |
| 0:17.6 | more people in the pool, when there's a pool party. You know, we've got to get everybody in the pool because this is a big story and things |
| 0:23.5 | have dramatically changed in the last 24 hours. I actually think the timing of all of this matters, |
| 0:30.4 | though, the timing in which we speak. So let me just set the stage in case you're new. |
| 0:38.0 | I'm Jenna. |
| 0:39.0 | This is smarter news. |
| 0:40.2 | The whole goal of smarter news is quick and concise, non-partisan information. |
| 0:43.9 | We want to clarify during a very cluttered media environment. |
| 0:48.5 | We want to meet you where you are to deliver the news to you in small bites but high quality. |
| 0:56.3 | Sometimes we take a moment to do a little bit more. And this is a moment, here we are about 12 hours after the first presidential |
| 1:02.3 | debate of this election cycle that feels like it needs a little bit more to look through, digest, |
| 1:09.8 | and review. But the timing in which we speak is important, |
| 1:14.9 | because the next 2448, 72 hours is really critical. In the last 12 hours, we went from having |
| 1:25.0 | one framing of the presidential race, who is in it, what it look like, |
| 1:31.2 | to now a completely different narrative based on what happened in the debate last night. |
| 1:36.4 | And it's really up to you to decide whether or not that's warranted. |
| 1:43.3 | Some of you have likely watched the debate live. |
| 1:45.2 | Some of you are coming to this fresh. |
| 1:47.1 | What I did today is pull a couple of the key sound bites, a couple of the key reactions, |
| 1:52.1 | and I'm going to leave you with something to think about as we move through this developing |
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