Emergency Debate Pod: Tear Down This Walz
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🗓️ 2 October 2024
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
JD Vance is the more polished debater. And whether it was because he was jittery or prepped not to take a wrecking ball to anyone except Donald Trump, Tim Walz wasn’t generally able to convey that Vance is much more extreme than he pretended to be on stage Tuesday night.
So how did he win?
In this free post-VP debate episode, Matt and Brian discuss:
* Whether Vance’s polish is really more appealing to a general audience than Walz’s plain-spoken delivery.
* Was Vance able to simultaneously rehabilitate his tattered image, focus on attacking Harris instead of Walz, and kiss up to Donald Trump?
* Most importantly, will Walz’s best moment—cornering Vance who was unwilling to admit that Trump lost the 2020 election—be the defining moment of the debate that establishes Walz as the clear winner.
* Also, what about the moderators?
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| 0:00.0 | That was a great opportunity for walls to be like, |
| 0:02.4 | what's happening here? |
| 0:04.2 | This is a vice presidential debate. |
| 0:06.6 | I'm running against Donald Trump's second running mate |
| 0:09.1 | because he tried to have his first running mate murdered. |
| 0:12.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:15.0 | Hello and welcome to the politics podcast. |
| 0:19.0 | I'm Brian Boiler. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm Matthew Glicias. |
| 0:22.0 | It's another free special emergency episode of politics |
| 0:26.7 | because it's now just a minutes after the vice presidential candidates debate |
| 0:31.2 | ended between JD Vance and Tim Walls. |
| 0:35.4 | And I think we have to pretend like this is really important and it definitely |
| 0:41.5 | mattered a lot and like the race has changed different world. |
| 0:46.8 | This is really the kind of thing where like halfway through this debate. |
| 0:50.3 | I was thinking to myself if this was four years ago, eight years ago, 12 years ago, when I had a job, I would be kind of annoyed at my boss for making me cover this because we think back through the annals of history and there has never been a vice presidential debate that mattered. |
| 1:10.0 | There's one vice presidential debate ever that was memorable and it was Lloyd Benson. |
| 1:15.0 | Benson, yes. |
| 1:16.5 | And then they went on to lose, right? |
| 1:18.0 | But I mean, but right, but like the fact that there's only one VP debate that anybody ever remembers and they only remember one line from it and the guy who did the great zinger lost, you know, it's a sobering reminder that this is probably not that significant. I do want to say |
| 1:35.8 | though that like the reason you remember the one line from the one debate a |
| 1:39.6 | million years ago is that like virality was a different thing then like it happened on |
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