Is the economy really the top issue this election?
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🗓️ 11 September 2024
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Last night’s presidential debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump kicked off with a question about the economy — often cited as the top issue for voters. But the discussion that followed was notably light on economic policy. So, can the state of the economy swing this election? And, we’ll get into more takeaways from the big debate. Plus, are run clubs and grocery stores the new dating apps for singles?
Here’s everything we talked about today:
- “Harris-Trump debate takeaways: Clashes on race, abortion, economy” from AP News
- “Fact-checking Kamala Harris and Donald Trump’s 1st presidential debate” from ABC News
- “Trump “less inclined” to do another debate with Harris” from Axios
- “First it was childless cat ladies. Now it’s eating cats. How the topic led to ‘ALF’ memes” from Yahoo News
- “Love on Aisle 9? A TikTok Fad Fills Grocery Stores With Singles.” from The New York Times
- “Run clubs in NYC have just become another oversaturated dating market, singles say” from NBC News
Kimberly Adams is headed to the Mile High City. Join us for a live panel discussion on the singles economy Sept. 23. in Denver. Use promo code “SMART” for a special discount on your ticket. We hope to see you there.
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| 0:00.0 | There's a deck of cards in here. |
| 0:03.0 | Why is there a deck of cards in my studio? |
| 0:05.0 | So you can play a game. |
| 0:07.0 | Hey everybody, I'm Kyle Rosedall. |
| 0:08.0 | Welcome back to Make Me Smart, where we make today makes sense. |
| 0:12.0 | And sometimes play games, but not today. No, not right now. |
| 0:15.9 | We'll do it on Friday. I'm Kimberly Adams. Thank you for joining us on this Wednesday. |
| 0:20.0 | It's September 11th. We'll do some news, some smiles, and we will of course start with the news. |
| 0:25.0 | I think, I mean, yes, it was, let's see what, |
| 0:29.0 | 18 hours ago and maybe 24 hours ago by most people's clock when they hear this but I think we should talk about the debate a little bit. |
| 0:36.0 | For sure it was really interesting. How was your watch party? You geeky. |
| 0:40.8 | So it was funny. Noel King and I went to the same place where we went to watch the last debate and the vibe was so different. |
| 0:49.0 | So we watched at this restaurant in Southeast DC in a neighborhood in Anacostia and it's |
| 0:56.8 | prominently black group. There were a bunch of organizers there, you know, like clearly people working either adjacent to the Harris campaign or doing some sort of local organizing and like last time we just showed up at the restaurant. |
| 1:12.0 | This time it was a ticketed event I guess you |
| 1:14.3 | had to reserve free tickets in advance to go and get a table or whatever and |
| 1:19.3 | it was way more crowded, people seemed way more excited. |
| 1:27.8 | And there was just definitely a different vibe, |
| 1:32.3 | just energy, and people were happy they were laughing |
| 1:35.6 | at Trump specifically at Trump and they were the people had pom pom poms that they were handing out and calendars and Harris swag and all this stuff and it was just so |
| 1:49.5 | fascinating to watch and you know I just remember the last one just watching people get more and |
| 1:57.9 | more despondent. I mean I should say that DC is like 90 plus percent Democrats by the way just for people |
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