The 1st Democratic Debates: Night 1 Takeaways

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🗓️ 27 June 2019

⏱️ 24 minutes

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NBC hosted the first Democratic presidential debate, which was split into two nights because of the sheer number of candidates running. In the first night, Sen. Warren stood front and center while lesser known candidates fought for face time with the country. This episode: White House correspondent Tamara Keith, political correspondent Scott Detrow, political reporter Danielle Kurtzleben, and national political correspondent Mara Liasson. Email the show at nprpolitics@npr.org. Find and support your local public radio station at npr.org/stations.

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0:00.0	Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast.
0:05.3	I'm Tamer Keith, I cover the White House.
0:07.1	I'm Scott Detre, I cover politics.
0:09.0	I'm Danielle Kurtzleben, I also cover politics.
0:11.2	And I'm Mara Liason, National Political Correspondent.
0:14.1	And the time now is 12.02 a.m. on Thursday, the 27th of June.
0:20.8	And the first democratic debate ended just a few minutes ago.
0:24.5	And we have thoughts.
0:26.5	But first, Danielle, you and I are here in the studio and to see.
0:30.5	That is true, yeah.
0:31.5	And Scott and Mara, where are you?
0:33.5	We're in the spin room.
0:35.5	We are in Miami.
0:37.5	We're in the big filing center and the spin room, where currently all of the candidates
0:42.9	are continuing to talk Elizabeth Warren's talking to MSNBC.
0:47.3	A few feet away and I think Cory Booker is talking to CBS.
0:50.9	And there's just a lot going on here.
0:53.0	So before we get to the substance of the debate,
0:55.6	let's just acknowledge that this was a very big debate with a lot of people on stage.
1:02.1	Yeah, quality and quantity, it was big.
1:04.7	I mean, the first one and also you're 10 people as we saw,
1:07.7	led to a lot of talking over moments and just a lot of wide shots of everybody trying
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