Hot Takes on a Low Key Debate
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🗓️ 2 October 2024
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Jon, Lovett, Dan, and Tommy break down Tim Walz's great arguments about democracy and reproductive rights, JD Vance's distortions on Obamacare and immigration, and the other moments that might—might!—break through from a surprisingly collegial vice presidential debate.
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| 0:00.0 | The Welcome to Pod Save America. I'm John Favreau. I'm John Lovett. I'm Dan Fifer. Tommy Vittor. |
| 0:24.1 | Okay, let's get right to it. We just watched the Vice Presidential debate together here in |
| 0:28.0 | L. A. To quote the moderators, Margaret Brennan and Nora O'Donnell, |
| 0:31.9 | gentlemen, we have a lot to get through. |
| 0:34.0 | We're going to start with the only thing that truly matters. |
| 0:39.0 | What did the Insta Reaction Polls say? |
| 0:41.0 | Very scientific, take them as gospel and basically they're all |
| 0:45.7 | tied so it's a tie debate I'm not going to go through all the numbers but that's what |
| 0:49.6 | they all said and even the focus groups the undecided voters they were mostly tied there was one undecided voter who I was about to say in this debate like |
| 0:58.1 | The one thing I could say about this debate is that no one made up their mind based on this debate not true. There was an undecided voter in Michigan who said they're voting for he's voting for Kamala Harris now based on this debate because of |
| 1:09.7 | JD Vance's answer on January 6th, which we're going to talk about in a bit. |
| 1:13.0 | So that one person plucked from them all, is making us all feel like everything's going to be okay. |
| 1:16.7 | It's fine, right. |
| 1:18.6 | It looks like, you know, CBS also did favorability ratings. |
| 1:20.8 | It looks like both Walls and Vance, their favorability ratings it looks like both walls and Vance their |
| 1:23.7 | favorability improved based on this debate all of that said we got our own panel of |
| 1:29.3 | undecided voters right here what did you all think? Who wants to start? I think the |
| 1:36.1 | meta-narrative coming out of tonight will be this respectful tone and the fact that |
| 1:40.0 | it kind of reminded people of normal political discourse you saw that in some of the focus groups |
| 1:43.7 | they were like oh these people seem nice they were nice to each other they talked they didn't |
| 1:47.5 | were disrespectful I thought it was interesting that JD Vance went into tonight doing the |
| 1:51.3 | media had fake being like I'm going to savage him |
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