December Democratic Debate Special | Mehdi Hasan (Rebroadcast)
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
Comedy Central
4.2 • 14.2K Ratings
🗓️ 31 December 2019
⏱️ 24 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Comedy Central. |
| 0:06.0 | Live from Comedy Central's World News Headquarters in New York, the Daily Show with Trivanoa Presents, |
| 0:12.0 | Vogue Gasm 2020, Worst Holiday Special Ever! |
| 0:31.0 | Oh yeah! Welcome to the Daily Show, everybody! |
| 0:36.0 | Thank you so much for tuning in, and thank you for coming out! |
| 0:39.0 | Thank you all for coming out. Take a seat! Take a seat! Left through this! I'm Trivanoa, the Democratic presidential debate, |
| 0:47.0 | ended just moments ago, and we are coming to you live, people! |
| 0:51.0 | Wow! That's right! |
| 0:55.0 | 100% live, and I'll prove it! I made this guacamole when the debate started, and look, now it's totally brown! |
| 1:03.0 | Now, between the debates and the impeachment of the president, it has been a wild couple of days in American politics, |
| 1:10.0 | and we're gonna cover both tonight, but let's start with the final debate of 2019, |
| 1:15.0 | which was hosted by PBS and Politico, and taped in front of a moving background that looked like a boring part of the matrix. |
| 1:23.0 | Now, tonight's debate was the smallest one yet with only seven candidates on the stage. |
| 1:28.0 | It was also the whitest debate yet, no Juliane Castro, no Kamala Harris, no Cory Booker, |
| 1:35.0 | basically, Democratic debates are like horror movies, they start out with a very diverse cast of characters, |
| 1:39.0 | and then all the black people are quietly and quickly killed off. |
| 1:43.0 | And that was actually one of the topics of tonight's debate. |
| 1:46.0 | Why isn't the Democratic field more diverse and more representative of its base? |
| 1:52.0 | Former President Obama said this week when asked, who should be running countries? |
| 1:57.0 | That if women were in charge, you'd see a significant improvement on just about everything. |
| 2:02.0 | He also said, quote, if you look at the world and look at the problems, it's usually old people, usually old men, |
| 2:10.0 | not getting out of the way. |
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