'The Debate' Recap & Analysis
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 28 June 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Brian Larry Show on WNYC. Good morning, everyone. And listeners, it's not for me to declare any results of last night's debate. It's for you, the public. But before we even play |
| 0:22.0 | any clips or introduce our first guess, or for that reason, I'm just going to give out the phone |
| 0:27.6 | number. 212-433 W-NYC, 212-433-9-692 call or text. And I guess there are at least three ways to think about last night's debate. |
| 0:40.0 | One, more generous to President Biden, is debating is not governing, right? You can think he's been |
| 0:46.7 | a great president and his poor performance on stage last night that everybody agrees he had |
| 0:51.3 | is relevant only to the artificial world of television debates. |
| 0:56.0 | Another kind of generous to Biden is, yeah, he was halting and hoarse and lost his train of thought |
| 1:02.3 | a couple of times, but Trump told a blue streak of lies and promoted an encyclopedia of dangerous |
| 1:09.2 | policies, and that should really be the story this morning. |
| 1:13.5 | And then there's the third way to look at it, which is the way that's dominating the headlines. |
| 1:17.8 | The top New York Times headline this morning, Biden struggles as Trump blusters in contentious debate. |
| 1:24.5 | Next headline, Democrats talk about replacing Biden on the ticket. New York |
| 1:29.2 | Times columnist, Michelle Goldberg, very pro-democrat, writes this about Biden. There will now be a new |
| 1:35.3 | chorus of cries for him to drop out, and I'll be joining it, Michelle Goldberg. It's a similar story |
| 1:41.9 | at the Washington Post. Top headline, Democrats panic over Biden, |
| 1:45.7 | doubting his future. USA Today, Team Biden wanted an early debate to shake up the presidential race. |
| 1:52.2 | This one did, but not in the way they wanted. In the Top Wall Street Journal headline, |
| 1:57.0 | on their site this morning, straightforward. Democrats discuss replacing Biden on presidential |
| 2:02.6 | ticket. So Democratic listeners, are you in any of those camps? Debates don't reflect |
| 2:08.3 | government equality, so don't overplay this. And anyway, it was just one night. Tomorrow's |
| 2:12.2 | another day on the campaign trail. Or Biden was bad, but Trump's lies and other dangers are the real story of last night |
| 2:19.6 | or come on folks get real Biden has to step aside for the good of the party and the good of the |
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