Surprise: There Was A Lot Of Policy Talk At The Final Presidential Debate

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🗓️ 23 October 2020

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden sparred over immigration, energy, and pandemic policy in the final presidential debate. But in race with historically stable polling, the debate had few surprises and seems unlikely to change the state of the race.

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This episode: congressional correspondent Susan Davis, campaign correspondent Scott Detrow, White House reporter Ayesha Rascoe, and national political correspondent Mara Liasson.

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0:39.6	Hey there, it's the MPR Politics Podcast. I'm Susan Davis, I cover Congress.
0:43.9	I'm Scott Detro, I cover the presidential campaign.
0:46.0	I'm Aisha Roscoe, I cover the White House.
0:48.0	And I'm Mara Liason, National Political Correspondent.
0:51.1	And it is 11.27 p.m. on Thursday, October 22nd, and the final presidential debate
0:58.2	between President Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden has just concluded.
1:03.0	And unlike that first debate, tonight was much more traditional.
1:08.4	There was a lot of substantive policy debate.
1:11.9	And of course, some personal attacks.
1:14.0	We did, Joe. I ran because of you.
1:16.6	I ran because of Barack Obama because you did a poor job.
1:20.0	If I thought you did a good job, I would have never run.
1:22.6	You know who I am. You know who he is.
1:25.6	You know his character. You know my character.
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