Starmer vs. Sunak vs. Trump vs. Biden- two TV debates, a world apart
The News Agents
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4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
A week today your Twitter feed will be filing up with dogs at polling station memes.
Yes dear listeners the marathon is almost done.
On today's episode we will be looking at two TV debates - last night we saw the prime ministerial candidates on stage for the last time.
Tonight it’s the turn of the US presidential candidates in Atlanta, Georgia. Do these debates ever change minds or just let audiences get things off their chest?
We will hear from the Trump campaign team and ask if the stakes are higher for Biden or Trump, or Sunak or Starmer?
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.0 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:12.8 | On today's episode, we'll be looking ahead to the next debate. |
| 0:16.5 | No, you haven't tuned in on the wrong day. |
| 0:18.1 | We're looking ahead to the first of the presidential debates, |
| 0:21.5 | but also looking back on last night's prime ministerial one. Yeah. And I guess the question we're |
| 0:28.2 | asking is can a TV debate make or break a president, make or break a prime minister, |
| 0:35.1 | or does it just confirm what we already want to believe? Welcome to the news |
| 0:40.6 | agents. The news agents. It's John. It's Emily. It's Lewis. And later, we'll be looking at the next |
| 0:50.5 | TV debate. No, I know you know that all the election debates have happened here. |
| 0:54.8 | But in America, the showdown between Donald Trump, Joe Biden, going mano and mano. |
| 1:01.7 | Quite a vision that of a sort of wrestling scene by the fire. |
| 1:06.1 | Oh, yes. I mean, I'm imagining stallions. I'm imagining a saloon bar. I'm imagining the shootout. |
| 1:13.7 | An ivy drip. Just, yeah, exactly. The zimmer frames. The clattering of zimmer frames. Yeah. It's going to be quite something. |
| 1:22.4 | Huge amount at stake for Biden. Because if he gets this wrong, it's hard to see how the campaign recovers. |
| 1:27.4 | But we'll come to that in a bit. |
| 1:29.3 | Well, we should talk about our own final debate last night, shouldn't we? The last one. And it felt |
| 1:32.9 | kind of in a way the kind of opposite. If we're saying that the American one actually is really |
| 1:35.8 | sort of high stakes and high jeopardy, there is so much sort of effort by broadcasters, as people like us, to inflate our own debates in that way. |
| 1:46.7 | And it was quite an interesting exchange in different ways. |
| 1:49.1 | But fundamentally, it got to the end of it. |
| 1:52.6 | And 50% of people thought Sunak won, 50% of people thought Stama won. |
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