Night One Debate Reactions | The Press Box
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🗓️ 27 June 2019
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| 0:00.0 | David, the Democrats just completed their first debate of the 2020 primary. |
| 0:08.8 | And tomorrow night we have another one. |
| 0:10.7 | What I want to know is, do you have a better idea of how we could stage a debate with 20 |
| 0:17.0 | different candidates? |
| 0:18.5 | This might surprise you, but the answer is yes. |
| 0:20.6 | Okay. |
| 0:21.6 | You have a plan for that as well. |
| 0:23.8 | That would be more like a... |
| 0:24.8 | The WWE has a thing called the Royal Rumble. |
| 0:27.6 | Here's what I would say. |
| 0:28.6 | Let's start the debate with two candidates, two randomly determined candidates. |
| 0:32.7 | The debate for five minutes. |
| 0:35.0 | Every five minutes a new candidate is added to the pool. |
| 0:38.8 | Wow. |
| 0:39.8 | If somebody's polling live polling numbers drop below whatever arbitrary mark you want |
| 0:44.7 | to say. |
| 0:45.7 | Below 5%, they get kicked out of the debate. |
| 0:49.0 | Okay. |
| 0:50.0 | And then we just keep going until there's only one person left. |
| 0:52.8 | So we look up John Delaney's walking down the aisle or Tim Ryan's walking down the |
| 0:56.7 | aisle. |
| 0:57.7 | Five minutes it's just like, oh my God, that's John Delaney's music. |
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