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It's Tuesday September 29th

2020 from slate. It's the gist. I'm Mike pesca and today is the first of the presidential

Debates now yesterday if you heard the show

Felipe Rehnis was on talking about the challenges of debating Donald Trump

He wants played Donald Trump and Donald Trump does have challenges

And it's not that he's a good debater or can lay out a clever argument or even has a way with words in fact

It's because he's not even a B plus or C minus at any of those skills

It's because he's so deficient that it just makes the ground under his code debaters feet a little shaky

So let me give you a little bit of an analogy

Let's say you and I were debating what's the best vegetable and I took broccoli and you took aparagus

Well, I'd know how to make the case and you would probably too and I would anticipate your case

And I think that I might win. All right. Now here's the second analogy

What if I took broccoli and you took tomato?

See, this is what I think goes on a lot of the time with a very smart debater versus someone who's saying the thing that the public wants to hear

Because I would feel really confident that broccoli is going to be tomato in the best vegetable debate because tomatoes are an

A vegetable I probably couldn't get off that point

But I might lose the debate because the public would listen and agree and say you know, I kind of do like tomatoes

But here's what's going on with Trump the debate is between what if I took broccoli and you took

Light bulb but also your son is an illegal banana salesman and eggplants and windmills cause cancer

It would be really confusing. It would I think be a harder debate in a lot of ways that I wouldn't know how to quote unquote

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