{"id":13609,"date":"2020-10-23T17:52:49","date_gmt":"2020-10-24T00:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=13609"},"modified":"2020-10-23T18:17:40","modified_gmt":"2020-10-24T01:17:40","slug":"special-coverage-of-the-final-2020-presidential-debate-bradcast-10232020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=13609","title":{"rendered":"Special Coverage of The Final 2020 Presidential Debate: ‘BradCast’ 10\/23\/2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

As new coronavirus infections spike to an all-time daily record in the U.S.<\/a> on Thursday (and again today<\/a>), with cases now on the rise in nearly 75% of the nation and hospitalizations increasing again in 38 states, our infected President, Donald Trump, and his Democratic challenger, Joe Biden, faced off<\/a> in Nashville, TN for the (mercifully) final debate of the 2020 season.<\/p>\n

We’ve got full special coverage on today’s BradCast<\/i><\/a> with a very smart panel, including RICHARD “R.J.” ESKOW<\/b> of The Zero Hour<\/i><\/a>; HEATHER DIGBY PARTON<\/b> of Salon<\/a> and Hullabaloo<\/a>; and, of course, our very own Desi Doyen.<\/p>\n

It’s a rather lively hour today as we try to make sense of our collective Nightmare Before Halloween, which continued to play out on Thursday night at Belmont University, even while deftly moderated (with a helpful mute button) by NBC’s Kristen Welker. As CNN’s great fact-checker Daniel Dale explained on Twitter last night: “Biden was again imperfect from a fact check perspective. He made at least a few false, misleading, or lacking-in-context claims. Trump was, as usual, a serial liar,” adding: “From a lying perspective, Trump is even worse tonight than in the first debate.” <\/p>\n

For our part, along with a bit of fact-checking, among the many<\/i> issues we cover on today’s program…<\/p>\n