Should Biden Agree To Debate Trump?
Brian Lehrer: A Daily Politics Podcast
WNYC Studios
4.4 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2024
⏱️ 21 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | From WNYC Studios, I'm Brian Lerer. This is my daily politics podcast. It's Monday, April 29th. |
| 0:15.0 | This might make you cheer or it might make you cringe, but on Friday's Howard Stern show, of all places, |
| 0:22.6 | President Biden seemed to commit for the first time, |
| 0:25.8 | well, maybe commit is too strong a word, |
| 0:28.1 | to debate Donald Trump in their election campaign this fall. |
| 0:31.8 | Here it is, don't blink or you'll miss it. |
| 0:33.5 | Howard Stern speaks first. |
| 0:35.6 | Can I tell you what fantasy I had? |
| 0:37.1 | Sure. |
| 0:37.3 | I don't know if you're going to debate your opponent. I am you a fantasy I had? Sure. |
| 0:39.8 | I don't know if you're going to debate your opponent. |
| 0:40.9 | I am somewhere. |
| 0:41.6 | I don't know when. |
| 0:43.0 | I'm happy to debate him. |
| 0:46.9 | Happy to debate him if you didn't catch it. |
| 0:50.5 | Biden said somewhere, I don't know when, but I'm happy to debate him. |
| 0:55.4 | Remember, it was Trump who refused to debate any of his Republican opponents in the primaries, right, which are now basically over, and Trump, who pulled out of one of the debates in |
| 1:00.9 | 2020 against Biden. We'll see if that happens again. But on the record, at least, it's been |
| 1:06.1 | Trump saying, anytime, anywhere, he used those words last week, and Biden more reluctant to commit. |
| 1:13.2 | And not everyone who supports Biden or democracy thinks it's a good idea. |
| 1:18.2 | Former George Bush speechwriter David Frum, you know him, an anti-Trump Republican in recent years, |
| 1:24.7 | wrote an Atlantic magazine article just last week, before Biden said this on |
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