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Hello and welcome to the Americano podcast.

This is an election year.

Will Donald Trump be re-elected?

What is going on with the Democrats?

And has America gone even more crazy?

We'll be discussing all of these things and more, more than once a week,

because we don't feel you have enough

Americano in your life. I'm joined this morning by Kate Andrews, the spectator's economics correspondent,

and we're going to be talking about last night's first presidential TV debate between

Donald Trump and Joe Biden. We both stayed up quite late watching it. I think

it's fair to say it was a horror show. It was horrendous, Freddie. It was painful. The back of

my left eye hurts, and I'm hoping that was from the debate, not something more serious, but the debate

was pretty seriously bad. It was uncomfortable. It was

angry. It wasn't a debate. It's really hard to believe that any hearts and minds were swayed

watching the two of them go at each other. The president was significantly ruder than Joe Biden was,

but in order to rise to the occasion, you had things coming out of Joe Biden's

mouth that didn't feel right, telling the president to shut up, calling him a clown.

Yeah. You mean sink to the occasion.

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