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PBS News Hour - Segments

Strategists on what Biden and Trump need to do in the CNN debate to win voters

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

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4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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The candidates are in Atlanta for CNN's Presidential Debate. To discuss the showdown between President Biden and former President Trump and what to expect, Amna Nawaz sat down with Amy Walter from The Cook Political Report with Amy Walter, Republican strategist Kevin Madden and Democratic strategist Guy Cecil. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

All right?

0:01.0

All right, let's turn now to our panel of analysts.

0:03.6

Guy and Kevin, I'm going to ask you to jump in here from your perspectives because, as

0:07.1

Lisa referenced, our poll has shown the majority of registered voters are unsatisfied

0:11.8

with these two candidates, right? And it's across both

0:13.8

parties 51% of Democrats, 42% of Republicans, 70% of independents. Kevin, how much

0:20.0

of tonight is about the candidates calming those concerns just within their own parties.

0:24.8

Well look I think you know you probably have about 95% of the audience tonight is going to be

0:30.5

tuning in with a rooting interest like even if they're not happy with the candidates

0:34.2

and they wish somebody else was running,

0:35.8

they're probably more inclined to already vote

0:37.8

for if they're already a leaning Republican or leaning Democrat.

0:40.9

And so this debate has more of an opportunity for that 4 to 5% that hasn't not yet made up their mind.

0:48.0

And while a lot of the candidates are going to be trying to juice their base and remind as one voter said like remind everybody that

0:53.7

they're the fighter and that they are you know the candidate that they need to get

0:57.0

out for we still have those voters that have not made up their mind and that is

1:01.2

the issue sets that those voters care about.

1:04.6

These candidates now have an opportunity to talk directly to those voters about those issues.

1:09.0

For Trump, it's voters, you know, motivating these voters on immigration and inflation, things like the economic

1:16.6

sentiments that they have right now, the anxiety that they have about the economy.

1:20.0

He has to speak very directly to those voters on those concerns.

1:23.9

And as we heard earlier, for Biden,

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