Emergency Debate Pod: Concepts Of A Plan?

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🗓️ 11 September 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

That was way better than the first one! In what may be their only debate Kamala Harris reduced Donald Trump to a smoldering mass of anger, deranged lies, and incoherent rambling. It’s fair to say everyone agrees she won, because pro-Trump influencers are already attacking the moderators.

In this free post-debate episode, Matt and Brian discuss:

* How Harris pivoted away from Biden’s failed debate strategy toward one designed successfully to provoke Trump into making big mistakes.

* Why her polls slipped a couple points between the Democratic convention and the debate.

* What a longer run strategy to rebuild and maintain her pre-convention lead might look like.

* Will she get a measurable bump from her debate victory on Tuesday? And, if so, how long will it last?

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0:00.0	She should put out a statement tomorrow saying,
0:02.8	let's debate two more times Donald Trump.
0:04.7	Are you chicken?
0:05.6	Because she beat him badly enough
0:07.1	that he probably doesn't want to go through that again?
0:09.3	Yeah, I mean, I think that's right.
0:19.0	Hello and welcome to the politics podcast. I'm Brian Boiler. I'm Matthew Iglesias.
0:20.0	We should say it's a special free post-debate episode of the politics
0:25.4	podcast. We just watched a little under two hours of Vice President Harris debating
0:31.2	Donald Trump.
0:34.1	I think we both think she won the debate handily.
0:36.6	And I think the thing we're probably gonna emphasize
0:40.8	the most of this conversation is that she beat him by making him his worst self.
0:48.0	She like very clearly planned lines that were meant to agitate him and to make him angry and to make him like stay off the messages that she didn't want him to be on and it basically just
1:05.6	worked like it worked as intended and he spent a lot more time talking about
1:10.4	rally sizes and defending himself from criticisms that she had leveled at him,
1:20.0	then doing what he probably wanted to do, which was just talking about immigration for 90 minutes.
1:25.6	Well, that's, yeah, I mean, that's, speaking of immigration, you were just on a trip for a while,
1:30.4	on vacation, it was nice. It was good. When you made it back home had your dog
1:37.6	survived the bands of marauding Haitians who are apparently
1:45.0	Yeah, he's not America's pets.
1:50.0	You know, we found in, we had to, we got a new dog sitter to stay at our house.
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