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The Rachel Maddow Show

Full team analysis of the first 2024 presidential debate

The Rachel Maddow Show

MSNBC

Madow, Washington, Rachel Maddow, Congress, Campaign, Policy, Election, President, Nbc, Public, News, Government, Maddow, Politics, Issues

4.534K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2024

⏱️ 118 minutes

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Summary

Featuring interviews with Vice President Kamala Harris and California Governor Gavin Newsom

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0:00.0

And that is the first presidential debate of the 2024 election cycle at a very

0:06.2

unusual time with very unusual format and I think with probably strange

0:11.9

results.

0:13.0

I mean, we'll see the response from both sides.

0:15.8

But if you're the Biden campaign,

0:17.5

I think you wish that this night will be remembered in reverse

0:21.8

as the president became sort of stronger, including his, literally his voice,

0:27.0

the strength of his voice over the course of the night, probably peeking towards the very, very

0:32.3

end of the debate for the Trump campaign.

0:34.7

I think it's fair to say it was the inverse.

0:37.4

President Trump just in terms of his coherence and finishing a sentence and seeming to be in control of his own emotions

0:45.0

started off as strong as he was that the strongest point for him was at the very

0:48.9

beginning of the debate and then it over the course of the night he became less coherent and more visibly

0:56.1

flustered. I don't think either of these campaigns, either of these candidates is

1:00.0

going to feel like this was a shining moment for them.

1:02.8

But I think that first initial impression,

1:04.8

Nicole, of President Biden walking out

1:07.0

and his voice being very hard to hear.

1:10.0

It's hard to tell what he was saying

1:11.4

because his voice was so weak, and his halting delivery in his first couple of answers

1:16.0

Is got to have put a shock

1:19.0

Put a shock into the campaign at least at the start before he started to get stronger.

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