Why You Should Watch the Biden-Trump Debate ... On Mute | Roundtable

The Dispatch Podcast

The Dispatch

Politics, News

4.4 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Sarah, Mike, and Jonah analyze Donald Trump and Joe Biden’s debate strategies, or lack thereof. Plus: the futility of fighting political headwinds, executive overreach, and a new Dispatch newsletter. Agenda: — Why presidential debates don’t (and do) matter — Improving Biden’s comms strategy — Veepstakes for Trump — Politics of Biden’s immigration policy — Congress, do your job! — This weekend: the new Dispatch Faith Show Notes: — The Dispatch’s The Collision — Advisory Opinions’ Living Anachronism — Bump stocks decision — The Skiff’s Interview with David French The Dispatch Podcast is a production of The Dispatch, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch’s offerings—including members-only newsletters, bonus podcast episodes, and weekly livestreams—click here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Welcome to the last pod. We just need to start. This is the last podcast episode
0:25.6	that we will do before the first debate
0:28.6	between Joe Biden and Donald Trump.
0:31.0	This is the earliest that we've ever had a general election debate.
0:34.2	Will you just give us like a lay of the land?
0:35.9	Why are we having a debate in June?
0:37.4	What is going on?
0:38.2	What are the rules?
0:39.9	Why are we having a debate in June? Is a really good question.
0:44.2	It seems to be a weird kind of trench,
0:51.9	the result of like some trench warfare mentality between the
0:56.1	Biden and Trump campaigns, where both sort of acted as if the other wasn't going to be willing to debate and then negotiations happened and as far as I can tell,
1:09.7	bluffs were called on both sides and here we are having this debate in June
1:16.7	which which actually makes a lot of sense I think I've never quite understood why
1:21.2	the debate I guess I understood intellectually why the debates
1:25.2	happened in September and October of the presidential election year, that's supposedly
1:32.0	when people are starting to tune in. But this is such a weird
1:36.9	election cycle where you basically have two incumbent presidents running
1:42.2	against each other.
1:43.0	Of Trump, effectively the Republican incumbent,
1:47.0	it was the nominee long before,
1:49.0	presumptive nominee for a while,
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Dispatch, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of The Dispatch and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.