So you know normally I try to you know drink a little bit of coffee or something before these late night podcast maybe a diet coke, but I honestly

I don't think I need it you're just on a natural high? I don't think I need it. You're just on a natural high?

I don't think I need it.

That's that you, Espresso?

That's that me espresso.

That debate was me espresso.

It was like a punch in the face.

I don't know, I had a cup of coffee.

H.

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Hello. Hello and welcome to this late night post presidential debate

edition of the 538 Politics Podcast. I'm Galen Druk.

We're recording about quarter past 11 PM

on the East Coast after the first presidential debate

between Trump and Harris.

We thought it might be the only. It still may be,

although as soon as the debate ended, the Harris campaign proposed a second debate

with former President Trump.

Perhaps that's some indication of how they think they performed.

We will get into it.

But for starters, it was a pretty fiery debate.

It lasted about 90 minutes. They covered all kinds of policy issues. They started with the economy.

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