Ep. 183 - The highs & lows of last nights presidential debate

The Breakdown with Shaun King

The North Star

News, Society & Culture

4.8 • 12.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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The debate last night was a mess. Period. But today Shaun breaks down a high moment, a low moment, and says why the whole thing was bad for the Democratic Party. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Did you watch the Democratic debate last night? I thought it was really a complete mess and I think that's bad for the Democratic party.
0:11.0	It was literally the last debate, not just before South Carolina votes on Saturday.
0:15.6	It was really the last debate before Super Tuesday where over a dozen states all over the country
0:21.4	get to vote.
0:22.4	I thought it was badly moderated. They
0:24.4	missed several major topics. Literally there was never a question about climate
0:30.3	change or immigration. They didn't press candidates on several hard issues.
0:35.6	I want to give us a quick analysis of the debate last night
0:39.9	and unpack and break down what I think is going to happen over the next few days in the presidential campaign.
0:46.0	This is Sean King and you are listening to the breakdown.
0:50.0	The breakdown.
0:51.0	The breakdown. down.
0:53.0	The breakdown.
0:55.0	The breakdown.
0:56.0	The breakdown. The breakdown. So I watched all of the Democratic debate last night and I thought it was a mess.
1:09.0	I did an interview last night with my friend
1:14.4	Medi Hassan who's an amazing journalist,
1:17.3	I think one of the best journalists in the world,
1:19.1	and he has a podcast called Deconstructed.
1:22.1	And I did an interview after the debate with Meti on the debate.
1:27.0	And so I felt like I needed to watch it from start to finish.
1:31.0	And so we just got a TV for the first time in our living room and so everybody
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