Reaction to President Trump & VP Biden holding dueling town hall events

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🗓️ 16 October 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Chris chats with a team of experts after President Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden hold dueling town hall events on the same night. The president's coronavirus diagnosis, distribution of a potential vaccine, and packing the supreme court were some of the major topics discussed. Daniel Dale also joins Chris to fact check both candidates on the pandemic and mail-in voting. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I am Chris Cuomo and welcome to Primetime.
0:02.8	President Trump didn't want to virtually debate Biden
0:05.9	in a safe way, and he wasn't willing or able
0:09.3	to come up with a negative COVID test,
0:11.5	so the debate was delayed.
0:14.3	We've thought that was gonna be the end of it.
0:16.1	Hardly, and what we are seeing in real time tonight
0:20.2	really may be the most stark contrast I've ever seen
0:23.4	between two candidates.
0:25.0	So Trump finagled himself a counter-programming slot
0:27.9	on a competing network to Biden's town hall tonight.
0:30.9	Biden would be on ABC, he was on NBC.
0:33.8	That caused a lot of controversy.
0:36.6	But now that I got to see it,
0:38.6	I have to tell you, in a way this may
0:40.9	have been better for you.
0:41.9	There is no question that seeing two candidates together
0:45.7	is better as a basis of comparison
0:47.8	than having to make choices
0:49.0	about which one to watch in isolation.
0:51.2	However, if you watched any of the President,
0:54.9	it is so incredibly concentrated as a version
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