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The Press Box

Trump-Biden Debate Preview. Plus: MSNBC’s Jacob Soboroff

The Press Box

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4.43.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2020

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Bryan Curtis and David Shoemaker offer a debate preview prior to the second and last 2020 presidential debate. They then discuss anti-Trump rhetoric, including a New York Times editorial highlighting Trump’s failures. Then, MSNBC’s Jacob Soboroff joins to discuss his new book, Separated: Inside an American Tragedy, as well as his career as an MSNBC correspondent. Plus, The Overworked Twitter Joke of the Week and David Shoemaker Guesses the Strained-Pun Headline. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

David, last week you explained to listeners here at the press box how you intend to vote

0:07.5

on November 3rd.

0:09.5

Turns out a few of our listeners had some concerns.

0:12.5

What I want to know is would you like to clarify your position, Mr. Shoemaker?

0:18.0

Oh, I appreciate the opportunity, Brian.

0:22.0

It turns out I probably should have been spending less time painting dining rooms and installing

0:27.9

laminate floors and more time actually investigating how one votes as a new resident in the state

0:33.1

of New Jersey.

0:34.1

It's not as I previously claimed votes are not counted by wonko vision.

0:38.4

So I just want to make that clear.

0:40.0

No, I said that I was going to vote in person because I had been sufficiently scared into

0:47.7

that state by our president.

0:51.3

There was a part of me and my wife as well that we knew was a little bit irrational or

0:54.9

a lot of rational, but we felt like it was our sort of doing our civic duty.

0:59.2

As many people, many listeners pointed out to me and I want to just up front thank Phil

1:04.1

Swabinski, who I think is doing work for the New Jersey Democratic Party, John Schuman,

1:09.4

Dan Braci, Theresa Bolano, Daniel Cain, all these people pointed out, helpfully wrote

1:14.2

into point out to me that all all voting in New Jersey, all the all kind of first ballot

1:19.3

voting is by mail.

1:21.4

And if you go in person, you can cast a ballot, but it will be considered a provisional

1:24.8

ballot until they've confirmed that you did not also vote by mail.

1:29.0

So going in person doesn't really do anything.

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