Vice Presidential Debate Recap
The NPR Politics Podcast
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4.4 • 25.7K Ratings
🗓️ 2 October 2024
⏱️ 20 minutes
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This episode: voting correspondent Miles Parks, campaign reporter Stephen Fowler, senior White House correspondent Tamara Keith, and political correspondent Susan Davis.
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| 0:24.0 | Hey there, it's the MPR politics podcast. |
| 0:27.0 | I'm Miles Parks. |
| 0:31.0 | I cover voting. |
| 0:32.0 | I'm Tamara Keith. I cover the White House. I'm Miles Parks I cover voting I cover the White House I'm |
| 0:34.2 | Stephen Fowler I cover the campaign and I'm Susan Davis I cover politics the time is |
| 0:38.6 | 11 20 p.m. on Tuesday October 1st, the CBS News Vice Presidential Debate has just concluded, |
| 0:46.4 | and I just want to start with some takes. |
| 0:48.5 | So what was your biggest takeaway from what we just watched? |
| 0:51.1 | You know, if you think of the guiding principle of vice presidential debates is do no harm, |
| 0:54.4 | I thought tonight was a big success for both JD Vance and Tim Wall's. |
| 0:58.4 | It was a substantive debate. |
| 1:00.6 | They went deep on issues, but they both defended their candidates and attacked their opponents and all the ways they're supposed to do. |
| 1:06.4 | And it was also pretty cordial. I think a lot of us were bracing for what could have been a personal, nasty debate based off of a lot of the tone and |
| 1:14.2 | tenor of 2024 so far and you know they were they were nice to each other agree I believe in. |
| 1:18.5 | Yeah I mean this debate did not reflect the election we've been covering at all of this debate. |
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