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Philadelphia Face-off

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The Washington Post

True Crime, News, Politics

4.14.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

This week, The Washington Post's Libby Casey, Rhonda Colvin and James Hohmann are joined by Senior Critic-at-Large Robin Givhan, as they discuss how former president Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris performed at the Sept. 10 presidential debate – and the impressions each left voters with


Plus, why is Pennsylvania one of the key states in the 2024 presidential election – and can either candidate win without it?


And later, the crew dives into Taylor Swift's endorsement of Harris – and considers whether celebrity endorsements actually move the needle in elections.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Rhonda I re-watch the debate because I love it so I love politics so much I had to relive it all over again and you know it's not we need to get you and

0:10.0

hobby. It's true. We will never give up, we will never conceive,

0:15.0

we bigger better and bolder than ever before.

0:18.0

We are not going back. I'm going back. Welcome to Sidebar from the Washington Post.

0:29.0

I'm Libby Casey.

0:32.0

I'm joined today by Rhonda Colvin and James

0:34.7

Homen who are here in the studio with me and we're also joined by senior

0:38.3

critic at large Robin Gervon. Welcome Robin.

0:41.0

Hi, thanks for having me.

0:43.6

So we're together less than 48 hours after the first and maybe only presidential debate between

0:49.1

former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris.

0:52.9

And the first votes of the 2024 general election will be cast in just four days.

0:59.0

That's right, early voting starts Monday in the key swing state of Pennsylvania.

1:03.0

So on today's show, we'll talk about what all those big moments at Tuesday's debate

1:07.2

mean for the rest of the campaign as November looms.

1:11.0

And later, we'll get into why the state that hosted the debate, Pennsylvania, could be the one that decides the presidency in November.

1:17.0

Plus, look what he made her do.

1:20.0

I had to do it guys.

1:21.0

Taylor Swift's endorsement of Vice President Harris happened moments after Tuesday's debate ended.

1:27.0

Taylor Swift wrote online that she decided to do it after realizing that a fake AI image of her falsely endorsing Trump was posted to his website.

1:35.2

So her post so far has more than 10.3 million likes on Instagram, but what do celebrity endorsements

1:41.4

amount to? And is this one of the most meaningful?

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