July 24, 2019

Episode 38: Starting Gate Debates, Part 2

1 hour 3 minutes

We're back for the second night of the Democratic Debates. This one features some heavyweights - Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and Pete Buttigieg.

We've chosen to pick one segment from each issue/topic to analyze how the different candidates responded, and persuaded, one another and the audience. Listen to this episode to find out:

How transitional phrases are used by multiple candidates to not answer questions, and the exact words candidates are using to transition to a new topic

How Barack Obama's campaign messaging has been hijacked by Bernie Sanders to illustrate the difference between him and other candidates

The moment when Bernie gets caught off-guard and accidentally says the whole truth

The ways that moderators were trying to create a pit fight between moderate and progressive candidates, and why they picked certain candidates to go against each other

Why Kamala Harris jumps in when she did on the contentious questions about race and ethnicity, and what we should know about this from a persuasion standpoint

How candidates broaden their messaging by first diverting to values and then swinging back to policy points

The rhetorical technique of antimeria and which 2020 candidate won the "rhetoric award" for this debate

Necessity vs. possibility languaging and how candidates might be painting themselves into a corner

How Kamala Harris changes scope on a moderator and launches an implied threat

Eric Swalwell's attacks on Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg and why it makes sense to examine them more closely

The illogical but persuasively sound argument that one candidate made while on the debate stage that caused roaring applause

And much more!

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Ten candidates: Joe Biden, Sanders,Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, Kirsten Gillibrand, Michael Bennet, Marianne Williamson, Eric Swalwell, Andrew Yang, John Hickenlooper

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