Coming up on this episode of the roundtable.

Inside of me there are two wolves, one of which thinks,

good job Trump for saving that last statement.

You knew you got it, you really had it nailed.

The other wolf says, why wasn't that the whole Trump performance?

Why didn't that begin and continue

throughout the whole debate? Debate. Welcome. Welcome once again to the roundtable, the editors and publishers

podcast at the American Mind at the Claremont Institute. We are joining you for a

very special emergency session after the first

and what I suspect will be the only debate between Donald J. Trump and Kamala Harris.

It was an hour and half. It was contentious. They covered roughly the economy and the cost of living. A bit on tariffs is a follow-up, abortion, immigration.

Actually, I was a little,

the moderators were putting their thumbs on the scales a bit for Kamla with some live fact checking against

Trump.

But they did actually have a, as a separate question, basically why have you flip-flopped so much,

why so many policy changes? The peaceful transfer of power in January 6

came up, the Israel question came up, of course, then the war in Ukraine, and then in one of the darkly comedic moments, the two hosts said,

let's talk about race.

And I was watching with Amelia and my wife and she said,

who wants to hear from I these people about race?

Let's not talk about it.

Health care and Obamacare, climate change,

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