The 1st Democratic Presidential Debates: What You Should Watch For

The NPR Politics Podcast

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🗓️ 24 June 2019

⏱️ 21 minutes

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On Wednesday and Thursday night twenty candidates will debate for the first time in the 2020 election. While they are all vying for the Democratic nomination, some are looking for a breakout moment, and others will be fending off attacks from rivals. The NPR Politics Podcast gets you ready for the two night special. This episode: political correspondent Scott Detrow, Congressional correspondent Susan Davis, 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, this is Kelly and I'm recording this from the town of Ulce, just south of Oslo in Norway.
0:06.1	I've spent the year here as a full-bright teaching assistant and tomorrow is my last class of the year.
0:11.2	Tomorrow's lesson will include eating American snacks,
0:13.9	featuring flamenha, cheetos, and pop-tarts. When I'm not eating snacks in class,
0:18.9	I'm usually teaching American politics and culture, like trying to explain how a U.S. government
0:23.6	shutdown works. This podcast was recorded at-
0:26.8	Oh, I like that guy. We need Pete Buttigieg to say like thanks in Norwegian, Tram.
0:31.7	It's um, it's 12-08 Eastern on Monday, June 24th.
0:36.0	Things may have changed by the time you hear this. All right, here's the show.
0:45.2	Hey there, it's the NPR Politics podcast. I'm Scott Detro, I cover politics.
0:48.8	I'm Danielle Kurtz, Lavin, I also cover politics. I'm Susan Davis, I cover Congress,
0:52.4	and I'm Mara Lias and National Political Correspondent.
0:55.0	This week it is a party in the city where the heat is on all night on the debate stage
0:59.2	until the break of dawn or from 9-11 p.m. Eastern.
1:04.5	Mara and I are welcoming ourselves to Miami, along with 20 candidates over the course of two
1:09.3	nights. Wednesday and Thursday, the first debates, really big deal, really big stakes, even if
1:15.0	as NBC put it in their advertising, it might not quite be two nights that changed the course of history.
1:20.1	I mean, that was insane. In a butterfly, flapping its wings,
1:25.7	certainly, we don't know. We can't be predicted. Yeah, why not?
1:31.4	But, um, whether or not it changed just the course of history, this is a big moment for candidates
1:37.7	to really introduce themselves to a lot of people who might be tuning in for the first time, right?
1:41.8	Totally, I mean, especially the ones who nobody knows who they are.
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