Will Debates Reset the Race?
Beg to Differ with Mona Charen
The Bulwark
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🗓️ 17 May 2024
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Mona: Thousands sign petition urging canceled concerts by Israeli ensemble to go ahead in Amsterdam (Times of Israel)
Sarah: GOP Sen. Mitt Romney says Biden should have pardoned Trump (NBC)
Biden killing the presidential debate commission.
Chris: The beauty of no audience at the Presidential debate.
Bill: Can the Declaration of Independence’s Ideals Hold America Together? (Colin Woodard, Washington Monthly)
Lowlight: The reports from the battlefield in Ukraine, after the GOP delayed aid for so long.
Will: RFK Jr.’s Rich Running Mate Just Added $8 Million to His Effort.
The hypocrisy of Congressional Republicans who voted against aid to Ukraine and Israel but lectured Biden over withholding 2,000 pound bombs for Rafah.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Beg to |
| 0:09.4 | Beg to Differ, the Bulwerks Weekly Roundtable |
| 0:12.4 | discussion featuring civil conversation across the political spectrum. |
| 0:17.0 | We range from center left to center right. |
| 0:19.0 | I'm Mona Charon, syndicated columnist and policy editor of the Boerck. |
| 0:23.0 | And I'm joined by one of my regulars, that is Bill Galston, |
| 0:27.0 | of the Wall Street Journal and the Brookings Institution. |
| 0:30.0 | Linda Chavez is under the weather today, |
| 0:32.0 | so my Boerke colleague Will Salitan is sitting in for her |
| 0:36.0 | Damon Linker is on vacation so Chris Saliza is joining us in his place. Chris writes the sub-stack newsletter So What, which I highly recommend. |
| 0:46.7 | And our special guest is Bullwork founder and publisher, Sarah Longwell. Also, Sarah, I think it's fair to say now you are a pundit extraordinary. |
| 0:58.9 | So we are delighted to have you all and I thought we would start this week by talking |
| 1:07.6 | about the biggest news which is of course that like all of the sudden this news bursts that there are going to be two debates and it all happened incredibly rapidly |
| 1:18.4 | It wasn't like one person proposing and another think maybe I'll get back to it. No, it was like immediate. |
| 1:24.4 | So the first thing that strikes me, and Sarah, |
| 1:28.4 | I'm curious to see your reaction to this, |
| 1:30.2 | first thing that strikes me is it's usually the person who's ahead who does not want to debate |
| 1:37.2 | But Trump seems to have jumped in here and agreed to all of Biden's terms it seems? |
| 1:44.6 | Did he get played? |
| 1:45.8 | What do you think? |
| 1:46.8 | I'm not sure he got played. |
| 1:48.0 | I think, look, Trump's whole thing |
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