23 June 2024

WONDERING WHETHER DEBATES MATTER...Is it really a debate or just another back-and-forth media-event

 What to Expect from the Biden-Trump Debate, with the Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin

“If anybody’s wondering whether debates matter,” Evan Osnos says, “the truth is that the history on this is pretty eloquent, which is that they do matter in very tight contests.”
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The Washington Roundtable previews next Thursday’s debate between President Joe Biden and Donald Trump, and discusses whether it will affect the outcome of the November election. The historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, who is the author of “An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s,” joins the conversation to look at what the 1960 Kennedy-Nixon debate can tell us about the upcoming event.

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