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Explain It to Me

Trump’s last stand

Explain It to Me

Vox Media Podcast Network

Politics, Society & Culture, Education, News

4.48K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Ezra and Matt on the final presidential debate. Hosts: Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias), Senior correspondent, Vox Ezra Klein (@ezraklein), Editor-at-large, Vox Credits: Jeff Geld, (@jeff_geld), Producer The Weeds is a Vox Media Podcast Network production Want to support The Weeds? Please consider making a contribution to Vox: bit.ly/givepodcasts About Vox Vox is a news network that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. Follow Us: Vox.com Facebook group: The Weeds Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Well, I didn't say it.

0:03.6

Did you say it?

0:06.0

I just said the polls show.

0:07.6

Oh, you said if you believe the polls, which I believe the polls, I my little weasel,

0:12.7

my little weasel words there.

0:13.8

Hello, welcome to another episode of the Weeds on the Vox Media Podcast Network.

0:31.4

I'm Matthew Eglace, here with Ezra Klein.

0:34.1

We have both just watched, um, Donald Trump and Joe Biden debate.

0:39.2

This was a much less weird spectacle than the first Trump Biden debate.

0:44.2

It bore, I would say like a strong resemblance to other presidential debates that you've

0:49.2

like seen in the past.

0:52.2

And that's sort of good from like a Weeds perspective.

0:55.8

There were real policy arguments, glossed.

0:59.2

There was even, I think some moments where people, you know, candidate shorthanded things

1:05.4

that could stand for some kind of spelling out here.

1:09.5

But on a high level, what did you, what did you see?

1:12.4

So a couple of things.

1:13.8

I did think this was Joe Biden's strongest debate, particularly for long stretches that

1:17.6

I've seen him in with the exception, maybe of the one-on-one Biden Sanders debate.

1:22.7

He was just much more in command.

1:25.9

He was clearer.

1:26.9

He had sort of a long period, particularly around the family separation debate of being able

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