Election R&D Dialogues: First Biden vs. Trump Debate Analysis

Let's Find Common Ground

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🗓️ 1 October 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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As the headlines and memes roll in, CPF Co-Directors Bob Shrum and Mike Murphy discuss the highlights and lowlights of the chaotic first presidential debate between President Donald Trump and Joe Biden. They also talk about each candidate’s likely strategies for the next two debates in October and the latest polling and trends in the general election.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Election R&D from the University of Southern California's Center for the Political Future.
0:11.0	Our podcast brings together America's top politicians, journalists, academics, and strategists from across the political spectrum for discussions on hot button issues where we respect each other
0:22.0	and respect the truth. We hope you enjoy these conversations.
0:29.4	Welcome to Election R&D. I'm Bob Shrum, the director of the Center for the Political Future at
0:35.1	USC Dornsife. I'm here with my co-director and friend or friend of me,
0:42.3	Mike Murphy, and we're privileged to do this in cooperation with the Rancho Mirage Writers
0:49.3	Festival and shout out to Jamie Kable and Deborah Chu. Our next election R&D will be on Thursday, October 8
0:57.4	with Minion Moore, was a high official in the Clinton administration to talk about the vice presidential
1:03.0	debate. Today we're going to do something a little different. We're going to talk for a shorter
1:08.3	period of time ourselves so that we leave more time for questions.
1:13.2	And I guess I have a take on what happened last night, but I think I'll let Mike have first crack at it.
1:20.3	Trump's down in most of the swing states and nationally.
1:26.3	And Biden's lead has been steady and has lasted over a long period of time.
1:32.3	What was the impact of last night's debate, Mike?
1:35.2	Well, I think you have to break it into two parts.
1:37.8	One is the impact that we had the lowest televised moment of a presidential campaign in American history. It was horrible. It was an
1:46.2	assault on every democratic norm we have. And it just, Trump is such a creature of bad faith that,
1:53.8	you know, even the bait rules he agreed to meant nothing. So it was a train wreck and a horror.
1:58.3	And we're talk about that and how it might be fixed going forward.
2:02.5	As far as the politics of it, you know, the Trump, if you work in the Trump campaign, for the last 90 days you get up every day, you have a cry.
2:10.9	And then you look in the mirror and think, what can we do today to make the campaign not about firing President Trump?
2:16.8	Because that's where the country is,
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