and Who if anyone has been eating the cats and dogs of Springfield Ohio and did the

debate hurt Trump? We'll discuss all this and more on this

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release some of the time by the right Honorable Charles C. W. Cook and Philip

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So Phil, I've gone back in the cold light a day, a couple days after the debate and

read through the transcript and there's just not there's nothing redeeming

about Trump's performance there's nothing that I didn't notice at the time that

that makes it seem better Kamla seems worse on the page.

Just her evasiveness was just so stark,

literally from the beginning, she didn't answer the question about, you know, are people better off now than they

were four years ago?

And then the moderation is even more terrible than I realized at the time and I was not enamored with it at the time but that

initial question right she she doesn't answer it and there's there's no follow-up

then you know there's only fact-checking of Trump, as has been much discussed.

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