The Catastrophe in Cleveland: The First Presidential Debate

In this installment of our “Election 2020” series featuring six Northern Kentucky University students, we discuss the first presidential debate, held on Tuesday September 29 in Cleveland, Ohio. Topics we cover include: if debates matter and if this one might matter more than usual whether the American public wants substantive policy debate who ‘won’ the debate -  and what winning a debate means where Trump and Biden were strongest and weakest what each candidates hoped to accomplish, and whether they were successful Be part of the discussion on the Politics Guys ‘BipartisanPolitics’ community on Reddit. Join the conversation on The Politics Guys Facebook page. Listener support helps make The Politics Guys possible. If you’re interested in supporting the podcast, go to patreon.com/politicsguys or politicsguys.com/support. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-politics-guys/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesThe Politics Guys on Facebook | XListener support helps make The Politics Guys possible. You can support us or change your level of support at patreon.com/politicsguys or politicsguys.com/support. On Venmo, we’re @PoliticsGuys.The Politics Guys is part of The Democracy Group, a network of podcasts that examines what's broken in our democracy and how we can work together to fix it.