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Into America

Into the Presidential Debate: Race, Protests and Police

Into America

Trymaine Lee, MS NOW

Society, Policy, Ms Now, Msnbc, Black Lives Matter, Government, Social, News, Blm, Society & Culture, Covid-19, History, Documentary, Cultural, News Commentary, Versant, Justice, Breonna Taylor, Politics, Culture, Health, George Floyd, Trymaine Lee

4.63.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

The first presidential debate of 2020 was dizzying to watch. We’re stepping back and breaking down how the candidates handled one segment on race, protests, and policing.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Good evening. I'm Chris Wallace of Fox News, and I welcome you to the first of the 2020 presidential debates.

0:12.0

That right there was probably the only normal moment of what we saw last night.

0:18.0

As President Trump and former Vice President Biden went head-to-head in Cleveland for 90 dizzying minutes of debate.

0:25.0

But for real, I'm not even sure if debate is the right word for it.

0:30.0

I'm not going to answer the question because the question is, the question is, who is on your list, Joe?

0:40.0

This is on your list, Joe.

0:42.0

This is so unfraissed that the court has not been given a list.

0:46.0

We have not been given a list.

0:47.0

We have ended this segment. We're going to move on to the second segment.

0:49.0

That was really a productive segment.

0:52.0

And even before things got started, there was controversy.

0:56.0

Let's play this continue on. The issue of race.

0:59.0

Vice President Biden, you say that President Trump's...

1:02.0

One of the topics of the night was titled, and I want to quote this, race and violence in our cities.

1:09.0

Just that language alone seemed well kind of Trumpian, the way it conflated race and violence,

1:16.0

instead of framing it as a push for racial justice that's been sweeping the country.

1:21.0

And it was this segment of a debate where the President of the United States, the sitting president,

1:28.0

did the most astonishing thing of the night.

1:31.0

Not only did he refuse to denounce white supremacy.

1:34.0

What do you know? What are you saying?

1:36.0

I'm willing to do anything I want to see peace.

1:38.0

Let's do it, sir.

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