A little bit of everything
Vice Presidential Debate between Minnesota Governor and former House Member Tim Walz and first-term Ohio Senator J.D. Vance on Tuesday evening was a very surprising – in a positive way – return to the civility and substance of high-level political debates we haven’t seen since Vice Presidential aspirants Joe Lieberman and Dick Cheney debated in 2000.
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So, on September 10, 2024, we had the long-awaited political debate between former President, Donald Trump, and Vice President Kamala
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Ronald Reagan did himself a lot of good when he ran against Walter Mondale. Reagan was 73, which was considered old. Reagan quipped, “I want you to know that I will not make age an issue in this campaign. I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent’s youth and inexperience.” Mondale was 56.
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Vice President Kamala Harris was so much clearer than I expected her to be that I was just incredulous. Former President Donald (Trump was stylistically off his game, and why? Not enough self-discipline.
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Meet the Press, once under the moderation of aggressive, straight-down-the-middle journalists like original moderator Lawrence E. Spivak, hosts Bill Monroe and Tim Russert, has become a purely Democratic Party-supporting vehicle under Chuck Todd and currently under its most ideologically left-wing moderator, Kristen Welker.
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Has anyone in the press not talked about President Biden’s debate performance? Little can be said that has not already
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Whether it is physically true or not, a significant majority of Democratic and independent voters have concluded that Joe Biden is no longer qualified to be President – and will be less and less so during a second term if he is re-elected.
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Finally, the second nail in Biden’s political coffin has been driven in by former and future President Donald Trump. Everything went Trump’s way tonight except that the ABC moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis were more open about their opposition to the former president. When they cut him off, it seemed to be with prurient delight and with reminders that he needed to “answer the questions asked.”
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Using reluctant testimony as the key to credibility, as we often do in political rhetoric, Democrats across the country, including journalists at CNN, are already saying that Joe had a horrible night. No one defended his performance post-debate, although several television liberal pundits claimed that Trump was irresponsible and less than punctilious with the truth.
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Seemingly out of the blue, the 2024 presidential debates have been set. I have a long history of writing about
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