Rapid Response: The First Presidential Debate

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

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🗓️ 27 September 2016

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Hillary shimmied, Donald interrupted and Lester Holt tried to keep it all together. The Gist team was at Hofstra University for the first presidential debate, and spoke to everyone from campaign managers to senators to a ribald former general. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:07.8	It's the morning of Tuesday, September 27th, 2016.
0:12.5	From slate, it's the gist.
0:14.4	This is a post-debate, rapid response.
0:17.6	So tonight's showdown was simultaneously the craziest,
0:21.5	most bizarre bit of political theater I've seen since well,
0:25.4	since the last time Donald Trump took the stage.
0:28.3	But it was also in a way the most predictable.
0:30.6	It was expected.
0:32.4	It was set your clock to it for anyone who was paying attention.
0:37.7	It turns out, and this whole thing hinged on this one idea,
0:42.5	that Donald Trump is a poor communicator of ideas.
0:47.9	Wrong.
0:48.7	No not wrong, Donald.
0:50.4	When not speaking to a rabid fan base,
0:53.0	or a group who gets your dog whistle references or understands and fills in the
0:57.9	blanks of your spotty sentences, you are simply bad at putting together an argument
1:04.7	that is compelling.
1:06.0	Wrong.
1:06.5	It's not wrong.
1:07.3	Listen, Donald.
1:08.4	Simply saying wrong into the microphone does not constitute a debate.
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