The Second First Presidential Debate and Beyond

The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart

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🗓️ 13 September 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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In an election cycle where debates have been more impactful than ever, what influence has the first, and perhaps only, meeting between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump had on voters? To unpack the debate and its implications for each campaign, we’re joined by Ashley Parker, Senior National Political Correspondent for The Washington Post, and David Graham, staff writer at The Atlantic. Together, we explore how debate formats constrain real messaging, which candidates gained or lost ground, and, of course, where the campaigns go from here. Follow The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart on social media for more: > YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@weeklyshowpodcast > Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weeklyshowpodcast > TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@weeklyshowpodcast > X: https://x.com/weeklyshowpod Host/Executive Producer – Jon Stewart Executive Producer – James Dixon Executive Producer – Chris McShane Executive Producer – Caity Gray Lead Producer – Lauren Walker Producer – Brittany Mehmedovic Video Editor & Engineer – Rob Vitolo Audio Editor & Engineer – Nicole Boyce Researcher/Associate Producer – Gillian Spear Music by Hansdle Hsu — This podcast is brought to you by: ZipRecruiter Try it for free at this exclusive web address: ziprecruiter.com/ZipWeekly Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everybody. Welcome to The Weekly Show, podcast with me John Stewart. We are back. We are back with
0:12.2	Brittany Mamovic. Lauren Walker, our erstwhile producers. We have been away for months.
0:18.9	For years.
0:23.0	When we left, I don't even know who was in the race.
0:26.0	It was Donald Trump versus Michael Dukakis,
0:29.3	and then things switched around.
0:31.0	Now it's Donald Trump-Comelaris.
0:33.6	We've only been gone for two weeks,
0:35.7	and now we come back to the earth-shaking debate,
0:40.4	which will, as ABC told us, will change everything.
0:43.0	Nothing is the same.
0:45.0	It's raining dogs, night is day.
0:48.0	Nothing is the same.
0:50.0	Night is day.
0:51.0	Nothing is the same.
0:52.0	Our lives are changed forever I assume that you both
0:56.3	watched with with baited breath I I found myself really nervous based on just how consequential the last one was where two minutes into it I was like,
1:10.0	oh he's going to have to leave he's not going to be able to to run for president so I was
1:17.0	happy to see it not necessarily be revelatory or answer a lot of questions, but at least bring us back to a slightly more normal
1:26.4	cycle, even if that meant Donald Trump yelling about people eating pets.
1:30.3	Yeah, it's weird that that's normal,, that's where the bar is. I think we've gotten to this point where, because there's so much coverage of everything, there is an expectation that everything is the Super Bowl and I guess the debates are probably
1:44.8	the closest thing that you can have to that but I do think it might be nice to get back to the idea that
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