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Today, the Vice Presidential Debate, and will there be a second presidential debate?

It's Ingepherty, coming up today, Charles C.W. Cook, Crystal Ball, and Saga and Jedi, all with their thoughts on where we go from here.

Hey everyone, it's Megan Kelly. Welcome to the Megan Kelly Show, and what a debate last night. Did you watch it?

I watched it. I thought it got a little tedious at times, but overall, I thought the moderator did a fair job, and the candidates, well, we're going to talk about it.

With me now is Steve Krakauer. He's my executive producer here on the show, and he's also the editor and writer of the newsletter, Fourth Watch, which is well worth your time, by the way, because he's sort of a media watchdog himself.

Steve, so I thought, on balance, that the candidates were generally respectful of one another, that they were pretty measured.

There were no meltdowns, like we saw in debate number one, between the top dogs.

It was a little boring, and my mind started to wander about, I don't know, an hour in, like, what am I going to do tomorrow?

I'm going to have a breakfast. That's never a good sign. That never happened in debate number one.

And I thought the moderator Susan Page was fair. I don't think any criticisms of her today as being biased toward one side or the other are fair.

I went back and looked at every single question in the transcript, and she was right down the middle, and she was pretty vanilla in the way she phrased the question. She covered things you'd expect.

Obamacare, China Trade, COVID, the economy, fracking, climate change, I mentioned.

It was Supreme Court. It was all stuff you'd expect, abortion. Maybe the topic selection leaned left a little, but not enough to really criticize Susan Page. That was my overall thought. What do you think?

Yeah, I would say the same thing. I thought that she did a pretty good job. I will say it seemed that she was very interested in two things in asking her questions, which I thought they were good questions, not really super interested in the answers, and whether the candidates actually answered the questions.

I would say both sides, Mike Pence and Kamala Harris didn't exactly give a straight answer to specific questions, and there was no follow-up to press for that.

The other thing. Because she was scared, you know, what, that she was going to lose control, like this out with Chris Wallace. You know, you could see the fear in her eyes. Like, oh, God, I don't want the train to go off the rails.

Yeah, I think it was a little different scenario now that President Trump was not up there, the stirring the pot a little bit, or maybe it was the plexiglass that was between them that really kept it a little bit more subdued.

But there was that, but you also really did seem obsessed with keeping fair time, which was interesting. Obviously, that became a storyline after also.

CNN actually timed it that they spoke almost exactly the same amount of time while ABC had it that Kamala Harris spoke more, and CBS had it that Mike Pence spoke three minutes more.

So I don't know how, how we all, you know, do our timing, but she was very, I thought you did a good job of really trying to keep it balanced in terms of the speaking time at least.

She did, but I will say as a moderator myself, some of those moments were frustrating. I liked that she left it up to the candidates to beat up on one another. You know, that was good. I thought.

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