Is This the ‘Mayor Pete' Moment?

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🗓️ 16 October 2019

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Today’s day-early podcast takes up the Democratic debate, with three out of four of us giving Pete Buttigieg the crown as the undisputed winner. But will it matter one iota? Does it matter that Elizabeth Warren didn’t fight back effectively? Does it matter that Joe Biden was the political version of the malapropist comic Norm Crosby? Does anything matter? Give a listen. Source

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0:00.0	Welcome to the commentary magazine podcast.
0:26.3	We're doing this a day earlier than we ordinarily doing the week on Wednesday, which I believe
0:31.4	is October.
0:32.4	What day is it you guys?
0:33.4	I can't remember.
0:34.4	16th, 2019 Wednesday because it was a democratic debate last night.
0:41.3	And so we thought we would try to brainwash you all into believing what we believed about
0:48.0	the debate last night.
0:49.0	I'm John Bajor.
0:50.0	It's the editor of commentary with me as always.
0:51.8	Senior editor Abe Greenwald.
0:52.9	Hi Abe.
0:53.9	Hello, John.
0:54.9	So, see editor, no, Ross, and I know her.
0:57.5	And in Washington, senior writer, Christine Rosam, high Christine.
1:00.4	Hi, John.
1:02.4	So Abe, who won?
1:08.4	Buttigieg won.
1:09.4	Buttigieg, okay, we got one for Buttigieg, please.
1:12.6	Unlike virtually every response last night, I gave you a automatic direct, factual, binary
1:19.3	answer.
1:20.3	Let's be clear about this.
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