Looking Ahead: A Viewers’ Guide to Presidential Debates

Now & Then

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News, Society & Culture, History, News Commentary

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🗓️ 6 September 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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How do political debates help and hurt American democracy? Heather and Joanne reflect on the recent Republican primary debate and discuss the long legacy of the institution, from Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr’s proto-debates with voters during the contentious 1800 election, to the 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debates, to the iconic 1960 televised debates between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon. Heather and Joanne discuss their own experiences participating in debates in the “Backstage” portion of the podcast. To get access to Backstage segments and other exclusive content, become a member at cafe.com/history. Now & Then is ending on September 13th. Leave us a voicemail with your favorite moment from the show at 669-247-7338 or write to us at letters@cafe.com. For references & supplemental materials, head to: cafe.com/now-and-then/looking-ahead-a-viewers-guide-to-presidential-debates/ Now & Then is presented by CAFE and the Vox Media Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Support for the show comes from Into the Mix and Ben and Jerry's podcast about joy and justice
0:06.0	produced with Vox Creative.
0:08.0	Thousands of Afghans were forced to flee their homes and fear for their lives
0:12.0	when the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in 2021.
0:16.0	The UK government pledged to take in 20,000 of them as refugees
0:20.0	but in the first year only 22 Afghans have been approved for asylum in the UK.
0:25.0	So what happened?
0:26.0	And what does this mean for the tens of thousands of people left behind?
0:30.0	Hear that story on the latest episode of Into the Mix.
0:38.0	From Cafe and the Vox Media Podcast Network, this is now and then.
0:46.0	I'm Heather Cox Richardson.
0:48.0	And I'm Joanne Freeman.
0:50.0	Today we're going to be talking about a topic that very recently was in the news
0:54.0	and is going to be in the news again and again looking forward to next year
1:00.0	and the oncoming presidential election.
1:02.0	And that is the topic of presidential debates.
1:06.0	On Wednesday, August 23rd, eight candidates for the Republican nomination,
1:11.0	debated in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in an event that was sponsored by Fox News
1:16.0	and the candidates were Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, 38-year-old pharmaceutical executive
1:22.0	Thomas Swamy, former Vice President Mike Pence, former UN ambassador
1:26.0	and South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie,
1:31.0	South Carolina Senator Tim Scott, North Dakota Governor Doug Burgham,
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