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Some shows may have ads. Hello and welcome to the FT's U.S. election podcast. I'm Courtney Weaver, the

F.T.'s U.S. political correspondent and I'm joined here in Washington with Barney Jopsin,

the F.T's US policy correspondent.

Good to be here.

This week we're going to be talking about Monday night's debate,

the first face-off between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump and

digesting what happened there.

We'll also be looking at African-American voters,

a demographic, we once thought was in Hillary Clinton's corner and now seems to be a little bit

more apathetic about her candidacy. And thirdly we'll be looking at the

ground game in Florida of both campaigns. So let's start with the debate.

Barney, we've been waiting for this moment since

since June, since we knew who the two general election candidates were. What did you

think? Well the consensus of the pundits in the last couple of days has become very firmly that Hillary won in a big way.

I think it's a little more mixed than that. The debate kind of divided into two halves if you like.

I mean initially Trump did very well and this is certainly what the conventional wisdom says now in the first 20, 30 minutes

when he was talking about economics and trade.

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