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The First Presidential Debate: “Will You Shut Up, Man?”
Welcome back to Flux, a weekly newsletter from GEN about the powerful forces reshaping America.
What’s in flux?
A strongman versus sanity. But what can a debate actually achieve in the chaos year of 2020?
By releasing his taxes yesterday, Joe Biden signaled that he wanted last night’s debate to be about economic fairness. He’s paid more taxes than Donald Trump — I mean, didn’t we all? — despite earning significantly less money. Can the candidate from Scranton out-populist the man from Mar-a-Lago? Our digital watch party included Tressie McMillan Cottom, Max Ufberg and Andrea González-Ramírez, and myself, as we buckled up for the worst Zoom meeting of the year.
— Garance Franke-Ruta, executive editor, GEN
“The First Presidential Debate: ‘Will You Shut Up, Man?’”
A digital watch party with Tressie McMillan Cottom and editors from GEN. >>>Read the full story.
The debate, by-the-numbers
50-129 million: The number of non-elderly Americans with a pre-existing condition, according to a study from the Department of Health and Human Services.
