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Hello and welcome to Coffey House Shots

The Spectators Daily Politics Podcast.

I'm Katie Paul, and I'm joined by Fraser Nelson and Sarah Elliot, director of the Special

Relationship Unit at the Largartum Institute.

Now, is the morning after the night before of the first of the US presidential election debates.

Now over the past few weeks we've been dissecting the UK debates, the election

specials and often saying is this a game-changing performance?

The answer was always no.

I think we've just seen what a game-changing performance looks like.

Now, let's listen to two clips to bring you up to speed.

First, here is Biden getting lost for words.

All those things we need to do, child care, elder care, making sure that we continue to

suspend our health care system, making sure that we're able to make every single solitary person eligible for what I've been able to do with the COVID, excuse me, with dealing with everything we have to do with, look, if we finally beat Medicare. And now his Donald Trump summing it all up.

Well he's right he did beat Medicare.

He beat it to death and he's destroying Medicare.

Fraser, just to begin, can you bring listeners up to speed of what really struck you and what happened I suppose last night?

This was an implosion. I reckon it's up there with Nixon JFK debates and the consequential television debates.

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