Swamp Notes: Harris and Trump meet on the debate stage
FT News Briefing
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🗓️ 14 September 2024
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s special episode of Swamp Notes, four FT journalists discuss the historic first debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, and answer all your most-pressing questions about the US presidential race. The FT’s US managing editor, Peter Spiegel, moderates the discussion alongside deputy Washington bureau chief, Lauren Fedor, global business columnist, Rana Foroohar, and chief foreign affairs columnist, Gideon Rachman.
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| 0:00.0 | The UK's energy partner. |
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| 0:10.0 | Hey there it's Sonia Hudson. |
| 0:12.0 | This week we're doing something a little different on Swamp Notes. |
| 0:15.6 | It's been just a few days since Donald Trump and |
| 0:18.0 | Kamala Harris had their first debate, |
| 0:20.0 | and we thought it might be a good time to hear from all of you. |
| 0:23.4 | So we're going to play you a recording of a webinar that happened this week where |
| 0:27.4 | FT subscribers got to ask our panelists a bunch of questions. |
| 0:31.6 | The FT's Peter Speiegel hosted the event and I'll let him take it from here. We are here for our post debate session with our subscribers with |
| 0:46.1 | FT Live to talk about the presidential race. I am joined by our greatest of |
| 0:51.8 | experts on US politics here at the F.T. |
| 0:54.1 | Lauren Fidor is our U.S. political correspondent based in Washington. |
| 0:57.8 | Lauren was, well, covered the, was in Atlanta for the famous Biden debate debacle and also was traveling with the vice president |
| 1:05.3 | ahead of the Philadelphia debate so she's been on the ground and give us some color on that. |
| 1:10.4 | Rana Florhar is in the is in Chicago. |
| 1:14.0 | She is our global business correspondent and one of our swap |
| 1:16.4 | columnists and join me on the night to give live commentary on the debate. |
| 1:21.6 | She is a proud daughter of the state of Indiana. So we'll have some |
| 1:26.0 | mid-Western sensibility to share with us. And from across the ocean, Gideon Rockman, who's |
| 1:31.6 | our chief foreign affairs columnist, can give us the international perspective on the craziness that is here in the U.S. |
| 1:38.0 | Gideon joined Lauren and I in Milwaukee for the Republican Convention, so he got some first-hand view of our |
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