From Washington: Bring On The Debates

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🗓️ 18 May 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Traditions are being thrown out the window left and right as former President Donald Trump accepted current President Joe Biden's offer to debate at the end of June...despite their respective parties having officially nominated neither. The first 2024 Presidential debate is set for June 27th at CNN's studios in Atlanta, more than two weeks before former President Trump will officially accept the Republican nomination for President at the GOP Convention and more than a month before President Biden officially claims his re-nomination. Former Deputy Chief of Staff and Senior Advisor to President George W. Bush and FOX News Political Analyst Karl Rove reacts to this week's debate news and weighs in on the state of the race. On Tuesday, West Virginia voters made their choice for who will vie for the senate seat left open by the retiring moderate Democrat Joe Manchin. Manchin is currently the only Democrat elected to statewide office in West Virginia. Manchin's pick to succeed him, Glenn Elliot, did win the Democratic primary. But the Republican primary was won by Jim Justice, a popular governor with the backing of former President Trump. The outcome makes West Virginia one of - if not THE most likely flip of a contested Senate race. Host of Talkline with Hoppy Kercheval on West Virginia's MetroNews, Hoppy Kercheval, joins to discuss the Senate race in the Mountain State, the senate race in neighboring Maryland, and the GOP's hopes to take control of the Senate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:17.8	UK slash appth, 2024.
0:27.2	I'm Jared Halpern.
0:28.5	Let the debates begin.
0:30.3	President Biden and former President Trump agreed to meet one-on-one at least twice this year.
0:36.5	I'm pleasantly surprised that he popped up and realized he needed to do this,
0:41.0	delighted that it's going to happen. Maybe somebody pulls out, but whoever
0:44.9	pulls out if they look like they are killing the debates is going to suffer with the
0:48.6	American voter. And the fields are set in a couple of states that could prove crucial for control of the Senate.
0:56.0	The polls have indicated that justice doesn't have a lot of weaknesses.
0:59.3	People like him, they think he's a good job, and so I'm sure Republicans in Washington you know
1:05.6	Glenn Elliot may not think that doesn't want to think that but Republicans in
1:09.4	Washington I think are counting that as a flip this November.
1:13.7	This is the Fox News rundown from Washington. To quote legendary newsman Ron Burgundy, boy that escalated quickly.
1:32.8	That film clip came to my mind Wednesday as I watched essentially in real time President
1:37.7	Biden and former President Trump challenge and accept a couple of presidential debates.
1:43.0	Both eschewing the decades-old tradition of the Non-partisan Commission on presidential debates.
1:49.0	In other tradition that appears to be flouted, waiting until after the two main candidates are actually nominated by their respective
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