October 23, 2020
Pod Save America
“Abraham Lincoln over here.” (Debate recap special)
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In This Episode
Jon, Jon, Tommy, and Dan break down what will hopefully be the last presidential debate ever to include Donald Trump.
Show Notes
The Debate
- Rev: Donald Trump & Joe Biden Final Presidential Debate Transcript 2020
- NYT: Trump tries to rattle Biden, who responds with a disciplined performance.
- AP: Analysis: Debate is brief interlude of normalcy in 2020 race
- WaPo: Final Biden-Trump meeting covers coronavirus, race, climate change
- CNN: Fact check: Toned-down Trump continues his onslaught of falsehoods
- NYT: Fact-Checking the Final Presidential Debate
- Vox: 4 winners and 5 losers from the last Biden-Trump debate
- NYMag: Highlights From the Final Trump-Biden Debate
- Politico: Trump, Biden get their do-over: Key moments from the final debate
- WaPo: 4 takeaways from the final 2020 presidential debate
- LA Times: Key takeaways from the second and final Trump-Biden debate
- WaPo- Opinions: The last debate is the final straw
- WaPo- Opinions: The only thing worse for Trump than an unwatchable debate is a watchable one
- NYT: Biden calls Trump ‘one of the most racist presidents we’ve had in modern history.’
- NYT: NBC’s Kristen Welker Manages to Keep Order at Final Debate
- WaPo: The mute button was a godsend. It also amplified the candidates’ differences
- NY Mag: Could’ve Used More Mute Button
- NY Mag: The Debate Guardrails Were a Gift for Trump
- WaPo: Second Trump-Biden debate has fewer interruptions but more counterpunches
- Vox: In the final debate, Trump interrupted twice as much as Bide
- Politico: Trump comes out strong. But is it too late?
- NY Mag: ‘Grand Slam’: GOP Insiders Texted Me Their Honest Feelings About the Final Debate
- WaPo: 5 takeaways from the final 2020 presidential debate
- NY Mag – Trump Started the Debate Disciplined, Then Lapsed Into Being Himself
- NYT: A Mandate to Be Less Like Himself? It Can Be Said That Trump Tried
- Atlantic: Trump Doesn’t Care
- WaPo: Trump did what he came to do in Nashville, but Biden was ready for what came at him
Robust Substance
- Vox: Trump on Covid-19: “I take full responsibility.”It’s not my fault.”
- BuzzFeedNews: “We’re learning to live with it”: Trump Dismissed the Virus That’s Killed 220,000 Americans and Put Him in the Hospital
- MotherJones: People Are Still Dying. Trump Is Still Lying
- Vox: “It just went away”: Trump used his son’s positive Covid-19 test to downplay the pandemic
- Guardian: Biden mauls Trump’s record on coronavirus in final presidential debate
- NBC: Dialed down, Biden, Trump clash over Covid-19 response, fracking in final debate
- Reuters: COVID-19 surges across U.S. as some hospitals stretched
- NYT: Trump tries to rattle Biden, who responds with a disciplined performance.
- NYT: Trump lashes out over Hunter Biden. Biden hits back, calling Giuliani ‘a Russian pawn.’
- Daily Beast: Biden Hits Back Against Trump’s ‘But His Emails’ Attack: ‘The Guy Who Got in Trouble in Ukraine Was This Guy’
- ABC News: For Trump and Biden, debate fuels allegations of improper family foreign deals
- USA Today: ‘Nothing was unethical’: Joe Biden defends Hunter Biden under pressure from Trump in debate
- Vox: There’s only one presidential candidate who we know accepts money from foreign sources
- Politico: Hunter Biden, Rudy Giuliani and the ‘hard drive from hell’
- NBC News: Trump heads into final debate with little formal prep, expects to focus on Hunter Biden, China
- WaPo: Trump campaign trots out former business associate of Hunter Biden ahead of debate
- WaPo: We’ve reached the Tony Bobulinski stage of the campaign
- Vanity Fair: TRUMP’S PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE SURPRISE: INVITING A HUNTER BIDEN ASSOCIATE NO ONE’S EVER HEARD OF OR CARES ABOUT
- Vox: Mysterious emails and convenient leaks: The Trump campaign’s Hunter Biden attacks, explained
- WSJ: Hunter Biden’s Ex-Business Partner Alleges Father Knew About Venture
- Daily Beast: Wall Street Journal’s News Side Releases A Piece Debunking Opinion Side’s Hunter Biden Screed
- Politico: Trump, Biden clash over what raising minimum wage means for small businesses
- Vox: Trump’s disappearing populism was on full display at Thursday’s debate
- The Atlantic: Biden Seizes Trump’s Populist Mantle
- NYT: Biden calls Trump ‘one of the most racist presidents we’ve had in modern history.’
- Vox: No, Trump hasn’t been the best president for Black America since Lincoln
- NYT: Asked about the environment and race, Trump did not mention the environment or race.
- Vox: No, Trump hasn’t been the best president for Black America since Lincoln
- NYT: Asked about the environment and race, Trump did not mention the environment or race.
- Vox: Trump on COVID-19: “I take full responsibility. It’s not my fault.”
- Politico: Trump, Biden clash over what raising minimum wage means for small businesses
- Politico: Biden wants to transition from the oil industry
- Axios: Trump claims COVID “will go away,” Biden calls his response disqualifying
- DailyBeast: Trump Knows ‘More About Wind’ Than Biden, Says Windmills ‘Kill All the Birds’
- The Hill: Trump falsely claims Green New Deal calls for ‘tiny little windows’
- AP: Biden calls for ‘transition’ from oil, GOP sees opening
- Bloomberg: Trump Seizes On Biden Oil Comment to Warn Swing State Voters
- Axios: Climate change goes mainstream in presidential debate
- TIME: Joe Biden Said He Wants to ‘Transition From the Oil Industry.’ That Shouldn’t Be a Surprise
- NYT: Asked about the environment and race, Trump did not mention the environment or race.
- Politico: Biden wants to transition from the oil industry
- WaPo: Biden vows to move U.S. off oil to tackle climate change as Trump attacks the plan’s cost, economic impact
- The Guardian: Aggressive push to 100% renewable energy could save Americans billions- study
- Pew: How important is climate change to voters in the 2020 election?
- The Guardian: A second Trump term would be ‘game over’ for the climate, says top scientist
- CNBC: How Biden’s $1.7 trillion climate plan would change America after Trump’s Big Oil presidency
- Politico: The Hidden, Eat-Your-Vegetables Side of Biden’s Climate Policy
Takeaways
- Political Polls tweet
- CNN Poll: Biden wins final presidential debate
- CNN: What Republican internal polling can actually tell us
- NYT: In their closing statements, Trump attacks Biden while Biden offers a vision for the country.
- YouGov: Viewers say Joe Biden won the final presidential debate
- FiveThirtyEight: Where The Presidential Race Stands Before The Last Debate
- Politico: Biden’s big lead: A field guide to the swing-state polls
- NYT: A slight tightening but a big Biden lead before the debate .A clear picture emerges.
- Vox: The fight is for democracy
- WaPo: The U.S. has hit 100% of total 2016 early voting
- Vox: Obama delivers a blistering critique of Trump in his first stump speech of the 2020 cycle
- The Atlantic: The Case Against Donald Trump