Your Guide to a Trump vs. Biden Debate
The Run-Up
The New York Times
4.4 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2024
⏱️ 53 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Get ready to hear the truth about America on a show that's not immune to the facts. |
| 0:09.0 | Back in February, Donald Trump called into this conservative radio program called the Dan Bongino show. |
| 0:15.2 | President Donald J Trump, President Trump, welcome back to the show, it's always good to |
| 0:20.0 | have you my friend, how are you you well thank you Dan very much and for lack of a |
| 0:25.0 | better term he threw down the gauntlet but I'd like to go for |
| 0:30.0 | immediately debates I'd like to debate him now because we should debate |
| 0:33.2 | challenging President Joe Biden to debate him even though Trump had skipped the GOP primary |
| 0:38.5 | debates. Oh wow look at that we're breaking news mr president |
| 0:44.6 | Donald J Trump calls for debates against uh Joe Biden I mean that's great we can |
| 0:49.3 | break his news here problems stand and get him to change his ways but I am officially doing that. |
| 0:54.4 | I also... |
| 0:55.4 | Eventually, Biden accepted and he even up the ante with the campaign pushing the schedule the matchup earlier than most people expected. |
| 1:06.8 | As in tonight at a CNN studio in Atlanta. |
| 1:11.4 | And while we can't know exactly what will happen on stage, we've seen the show before. |
| 1:17.0 | Bitter insults, a constant blame game. |
| 1:20.5 | And more than anything, a political spectacle that's often judged on the optics, more than the substance. |
| 1:27.0 | But considering both candidates, offering radically different visions for the country. |
| 1:33.6 | It's hard to imagine an election, where the substance matters more. |
| 1:38.8 | So today, there's no buzzer, no mic muting, and instead just the policy. |
| 1:47.0 | I call four of my colleagues to talk about what the candidates are actually promising for a second term on some of the issues |
| 1:54.4 | Americans care the most about. From the New York Times I'm a Stead Herndon. |
| 2:00.4 | This is the run up. Four issues that usually rank high on the list of voter concerns are the economy, immigration, abortion rights, and foreign policy. |
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