presidential debate
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An Exclusive Interview With the Second-Least Racist Person in the Room at Last Night's Debate
In our neverending quest to bring you exclusive content related to the upcoming election, The Root managed to score an interview with a man who, by all accounts, was widely known as the least racist person who attended Thursday night’s match between WWE RAW (Wypipo Working to Elect a Racist-Ass Wombat) champion Donald Trump and…
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Meet Kristen Welker, the 1st Black Woman to Moderate a Presidential Debate Solo in Almost 30 Years
Even though tens of millions of American voters have already made up their minds about who ought to be the next president of the United States, many are still expected to tune into tonight’s final presidential debate between Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and President Donald Trump. In the middle of the brouhaha will be…
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Trump Just Posted the 60 Minutes Video to Facebook Because He’s Petty AF
Because the President didn’t like being called on his bullshit during an interview with 60 Minutes, he beat the news program to the punch and posted the full interview to his Facebook page Thursday before the news show could air it. The president took to Twitter to complain that interviewer journalist Lesley Stahl was rude…
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What is Lindsay Graham Hiding? S.C. Senator Refuses to Test for COVID-19 Ahead of Debate With Challenger Jamie Harrison, Raising Suspicions
If you were browsing Twitter on Friday, you may have noticed that #LindsayGrahamHasCOVID was trending. But you’d be wrong to assume that means we know anything definitively about the Republican senator’s health status as it pertains to coronavirus. The hashtag itself was prompted by the fact that earlier that day, Graham outright refused to undergo…
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Trump Won’t Do Virtual Debate, Wants to Take His Coronavirus on the Road Instead
President Trump wants to yell at Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden in person or he doesn’t want to yell at all. On Thursday, the organizing commission of the debates announced that in order to protect Biden from getting the president’s coronavirus—which the president claims is gone and healed, because God—they wanted to move the debates…
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The Fly and Blood in Mike Pence’s Eye: 5 Takeaways From the Vice Presidential Debate
So it happened. The Mike Tyson and Roy Jones of vice-presidential candidates finally faced off behind plexiglass, and to quote former Arizona head coach Dennis Green, “They are who we thought they were.” Mike Pence proved to be a robotic version of the president’s agenda and Sen. Kamala Harris didn’t have time for the vice…
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White Supremacy's Best Friend: Why Tim Scott Is the GOP's Magical Negro
Black people are literally magic. Now, I don’t believe in magic, but I’m pretty sure white people do. The only reason anyone could subject a people to the invisible-but-natural force of white supremacy is if they believed we possessed a power that they don’t have. There is no way any human being could deny Black…
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Debate Commission Working to Provide More Structure After Tuesday Night's Debacle. Here Are Some Suggestions
Following the shitshow masquerading as the first presidential debate Tuesday night, the Commission on Presidential Debates has promised format changes for the second debate. NBC News reports that the changes come as a result of President Donald Trump constantly flaunting the established rules. The result was a debate rife with interruptions and name-calling, with little…
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Donald Trump Jr. Speaks Rapidly Before Debate; Twitter Wants to Know If He’s on Coke
Tuesday was a big day for the Trump family—and no, the family wasn’t going to meet Melania’s boyfriend. “Big Donald,” as they call him at the Hair Cuttery, was heading into his first presidential debate against Joe Biden and Donald Trump Jr. couldn’t contain his excitement. Either that or “Not Ivanka”—as they call him around…
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America Ain't Better Than This
I forget exactly how old I was. Maybe 9. Maybe 10. It was summer. A Sunday. Dad and I were preparing to spend the day at the hoop courts behind Reizenstein—him running full on the main court with the rest of the oldheads, and me doing Mikans and playing 33 on side hoops with whichever…