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The Gist

Rapid Response: Cirque du Debate

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

News, Daily News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2016

⏱️ 12 minutes

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The first fifty minutes felt…strange. Calm. Like a real debate. Then Chris Wallace asked if Trump would recognize the election as legitimate. Mike Pesca was in the spin room after the third and final presidential showdown.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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It's the early morning of Thursday, October 20th, 2016. From slate, it's the gist I'm Mike Pasca.

0:43.5

This is a debate number three rapid response. Donald Trump is a large headed orange-hued man with

0:50.1

immovable hair who has thrown in with the conspiracy-oriented website Breitbart. He is called past

0:55.2

beauty pageant winners Miss Piggy. We know he has the tendency to engage in I know you are but

1:00.8

what am I is him. Based on this information, it truly advanced algorithm should have predicted

1:07.2

that this charge would have inevitably been leveled by him in this debate. No pop. It's pretty clear.

1:15.4

It's pretty clear you won't admit that the Russians have been. This punch in Judy show offered more

1:21.1

moments that further defined democracy down. This was one he has consistently denied what is a very

1:29.0

clear fact that before the invasion he supported it dozens of sources which verify that he was for

1:36.2

the invasion of Iraq. Actually, it's kind of a motif. So if that was the good, this part was the

1:42.3

bad. We have some bad ombres here and we're going to get them out. And let's not forget this bit of

1:47.9

ugliness such a nasty one. At this point in the electoral process on this last debate stage on

1:55.2

the cusp of the casting of ballots for the office of the presidency, it strikes me that the use of

2:01.6

such phrases as electoral process and office of the presidency elevates Trump in a way he does not

2:08.4

deserve. I had thought that automatically winning the primaries should automatically confer

2:14.7

deference and regard upon a candidate. But Trump stands a thwart all norms of institution and

2:23.2

regard putting aside whether he deserves the deference due to a major party candidate. The case

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