Puck Superfriends Break Down Biden’s Debate Breakdown

Impolitic with John Heilemann

Audacy | Puck

News, Politics

4.8 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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John is joined by his colleagues Dylan Byers and Peter Hamby in the immediate aftermath of the first (and maybe only) 2024 presidential debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump. The three Puck political-media superfriends asses Biden's botched performance and the freakout among Democratic officials, strategists, and donors in reaction to it; analyze Trump’s calm and composed (by his standards) turn on the debate stage; and speculate on whether the suddenly ardent and increasingly public strategizing among elite Dems about how to get Biden to drop out of the race — for the good of both the party and the country. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:27.8	Aloha and mamaste everyone I'm John Heilman down in Atlanta, Georgia for the first and
0:37.0	after what transpired here tonight, almost certainly the only 2024 general election debate between President Joe
0:45.1	Biden and former president and of course convicted felon Donald Trump.
0:49.0	To mark this historic occasion I have joined forces with my puck super friends Peter
0:53.2	Hamby and Dylan Byers to create a special post-debate combined episode of
0:58.1	in politics with John Heilman my twice weekly podcast for Odyssey and puck and and The Powers That Be, Peter's Daily
1:04.7	Podcast for Odyssey and Puck. Almost exactly one hour after Biden and Trump
1:09.5	delivered their closing statements the two of us in Dylan got on the blower and dove right in
1:14.2	offering our impressions observations analyses and assessments as well as emptying our
1:19.8	notebooks and reading out messages from our text threads, which you will probably not be surprised to learn,
1:26.4	we're essentially overloading and melting down due to the deafening wailing, gnashing,
1:31.6	howling, and crying of Democrats collectively freaking the
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