Wow, Actual Trump-Biden Debates?

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🗓️ 15 May 2024

⏱️ 73 minutes

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The offer this morning from Joe Biden to debate Donald Trump twice, in June and September, was semi-accepted by Trump a few minutes after it was proposed, so the game might be afoot. Why does Biden want this? What could it mean? And what do the very interesting primary results last night suggest about the state of the Republican party in particular? Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hope for the best.
0:07.0	the worst.
0:09.0	Expect the worst.
0:11.0	Some drink champagne, some die of furs.
0:15.0	No way of knowing, which way it's going.
0:19.0	Hope for the best expect the worst.
0:22.0	So for the best, I'm
0:27.0	Welcome to the Commentary Magazine Daily Podcast. Today is Wednesday, May 15th, The Ides of May.
0:30.0	I'm John Potth, the Ides of May.
0:31.0	I'm John Potthoritz, the editor of Commentary magazine importuning you to go to
0:35.5	commentary.org to read our June issue, the contents of our June issue. We discussed
0:41.0	yesterday a greenwald's magisterial piece, the woke jihad. There is much, much more there that is
0:49.7	extraordinarily rich. Our own, Matt Connedy sitting here with a piece on how
0:54.9	Biden is lousy at politics, which
0:56.8	we might be getting to in just a second.
1:00.4	I have a piece on why Biden might actually want to believe that Israel is committing war crimes in Gaza and that he has troubles in Michigan, what psychological benefit he accrues from that,
1:16.4	and many other things, so that's the June issue of commentary at commentary.org, you can read a few things, and then we ask you to subscribe.
1:23.8	It's time for you to subscribe if you are not subscribing because it also helps to support
1:28.5	the continued daily publication of this podcast, which features the following cast of
1:34.3	characters executive editor A Greenwald. Hi Abe. Hi John. Senior editor Seth
1:38.9	Mandel. Hi Seth. Hi, John. And the Washington commentary columnist in whose column the
1:45.1	Biden is lousy a politics article appears Matthew not netti hi Matt hi John
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