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The Breakdown with Shaun King

Ep. 335 - What Kamala did very well last night + the fly and the eye

The Breakdown with Shaun King

The North Star

News, Society & Culture

4.812.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2020

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Kamala Harris won the debate last night. Hands down. Today I'll unpack what she did well, what was disappointing, and also give my thoughts on the fly and the bloodshot eye. Also, it now appears this is going to be the last debate we see in this presidential campaign since Trump pulled out of the second one. ---- If you listen to The Breakdown and want to help support the work we do, consider becoming a member of our Patreon at www.patreon.com/thebreakdown for exclusive members perks and early access to content. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Let's

0:02.0

Vice presidential debate.

0:04.0

Yes, we'll talk about the fly.

0:06.0

I want to tell you the hilarious moment

0:09.0

when I was watching the debate when we first saw the fly.

0:12.0

We can talk about Mike Pence's

0:16.4

cyborg eye as well and then we can dig into some matters of substance. I thought

0:22.1

overall from a performance perspective I thought

0:25.5

Kamala Harris crushed it. I have of course several critiques of some of her

0:31.1

answers on policy but I want to I want to tell you my thoughts on

0:36.1

why I thought in some ways she felt like she needed to play it safe and kind of hedge on being super progressive.

0:48.0

I'll unpack it and explain it and see what you think, all right?

0:51.4

This is Sean King and you are listening to the breakdown. The Breakdown. Last night was not only the first and last vice presidential debate, from what we came to

1:20.6

understand this morning, it may be the final debate of this entire campaign because

1:29.2

early this morning the Presidential Debate Commission, a bipartisan, super respected commission,

1:37.1

said that they were taking some new precautions to protect people, participants, families, and others from the coronavirus.

1:47.5

And they said because, in essence of the failures of the previous debate, over a dozen staff members at the

1:54.8

previous presidential debate, were infected with the coronavirus and many others

1:59.6

seemed to spread it among the Trump campaign.

2:03.0

They said the next debate was going to be virtual,

2:05.5

and Joe Biden accepted that.

2:08.0

It's smart.

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