The Election Wars of 2020
The Political Scene | The New Yorker
The New Yorker
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🗓️ 1 October 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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On Tuesday, Donald Trump and Joe Biden met for their first Presidential debate. For ninety minutes, Trump repeatedly shouted over and attacked both his opponent and the debate moderator, Chris Wallace. He also challenged the legitimacy of the election, and warned, “this is not going to end well.” Evan Osnos joins Dorothy Wickenden to talk about how political discourse has changed in recent decades, and whether Joe Biden's vision of a return to “normalcy” is possible.
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| 1:16.6 | politics. It's Thursday, October 1st. I'm Dorothy Wickenden, executive editor of the New Yorker. |
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