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National politics with Ken Rudin

President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden exchange points during the first presidential debate Sept. 29, 2020, at Case Western University and Cleveland Clinic, in Cleveland, Ohio. President Joe Biden is trying to focus the campaign on former President Donald Trump's comments and policy proposals, sometimes more than his own. It's a time-worn strategy of White House incumbents to try to negatively define their rivals in the public's eyes.
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President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden exchange points during the first presidential debate Sept. 29, 2020, at Case Western University and Cleveland Clinic, in Cleveland, Ohio. President Joe Biden is trying to focus the campaign on former President Donald Trump's comments and policy proposals, sometimes more than his own. It's a time-worn strategy of White House incumbents to try to negatively define their rivals in the public's eyes.

Unless you’ve been sequestered, it’s been hard to avoid media coverage of tonight’s presidential debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump.

In addition to happening five months before the election, it’ll be different from past debates.

There won’t be an audience and no opening statements. And the mics will be cut off when a candidate is speaking to prevent interruption.

The U.S. government finally settles with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

And the progressive house group known as "The Squad" suffers its first election loss in New York.

Ken Rudin, host of the "Political Junkie" podcast, joins us this hour to preview the debate and discuss other national political headlines.

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