Swamp Notes: After the debate, is this it for Biden?
FT News Briefing
Forhecz Topher
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🗓️ 29 June 2024
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Joe Biden went into Thursday night’s CNN presidential debate hoping to assuage concerns over his mental acuity and fitness for office. But his performance only heightened those concerns — and may even force Democrats to reconsider their standard-bearer. The FT’s deputy Washington bureau chief, Lauren Fedor, and Washington reporter, Steff Chavez, join this week’s Swamp Notes podcast to explain why. Credit: CNN Presidential Debate, NBC News, ABC News
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| 0:09.2 | Kow. UK. |
| 0:11.5 | Debates can define elections. |
| 0:14.0 | You mentioned the Navy, for example, |
| 0:16.0 | and that we have fewer ships than we did in 1916. |
| 0:19.0 | Well, Governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets. |
| 0:22.0 | I am not going to exploit for political purposes my opponents' youth and inexperience. |
| 0:31.0 | And the CNN presidential debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump may define the 2024 race. |
| 0:37.0 | I really don't know what he said at the end of that sentence. |
| 0:40.0 | I don't think he knows what he said either. This is Swamp Notes, the weekly podcast from the FTEs briefing where we talk about all of the things happening in the 2024 U.S. presidential |
| 0:53.8 | election. I'm Mark Filipino and this week we're asking who won the first |
| 0:58.8 | presidential debate and what does it mean going forward for both candidates? |
| 1:07.2 | Here with me to discuss in Atlanta after covering the debate is Lauren FEDOR. She's the F.T.'s deputy Washington Bureau Chief. |
| 1:09.9 | Hey Lauren? |
| 1:10.8 | Hi Mark. |
| 1:11.8 | And we've also got Steph Chavez, the FT's Washington reporter. |
| 1:15.3 | Hi Steph. |
| 1:16.0 | Hi Mark, hi Lauren. |
| 1:17.9 | Lauren, can you set the scene of how we got here? |
| 1:21.3 | June debates are not normally a thing and I guess what was each |
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