Trump team braces for a presidential self-own

The Conversation with Dasha Burns

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🗓️ 25 September 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Donald Trump will face Joe Biden for the first of three presidential debates on Tuesday. POLITICO's Gabby Orr and Scott Bland dive into how the president is prepping — or not — for the big day ... and why some of his supporters worry Trump has set a trap for himself by attacking Biden’s mental acumen. Scott Bland is the host of Nerdcast and a politics editor at POLITICO.Gabby Orr is a White House reporter for POLITICO.Adrienne Hurst is an associate producer for POLITICO audio. Jenny Ament is a senior producer for POLITICO audio. Irene Noguchi is the executive producer of POLITICO audio. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	All right, race and violence in our cities.
0:02.8	Well, that's an easy one also.
0:04.6	I mean, law and order.
0:05.7	The nation needs law and order.
0:08.7	Welcome to Nerdcast.
0:11.1	I'm Scott Bland.
0:12.3	The president sort of has these prepackaged ways of circumventing the actual topic to talk about what he likes to talk about, which is just a classic of sort of the pundit class.
0:23.5	The first presidential debate between Joe Biden
0:25.7	and President Donald Trump is only a few days away.
0:28.7	Answer the question that you want to answer
0:30.7	not the one that was asked. Here's the deal.
0:34.0	They've got three 90 minute debates.
0:36.0	So altogether, that's 270 minutes.
0:38.0	Each one is divided up into these 15 minute topic segments.
0:42.0	So that adds up to 18 sets of... 15 minute topic segments.
0:42.6	So that adds up to 18 sets of 15 minutes, basically.
0:47.1	Each one of these 15 minute segments
0:49.1	is really valuable real estate.
0:50.9	Sorry, your time is up.
0:52.0	Thank you, your time is up. Thank you.
0:53.0	Your time is up.
0:54.0	Oh, wait a minute.
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