CHICAGO (CBS) — You’d think debate is all about arguing and disagreement. But as CBS 2’s Lauren Victory discovered, the exchange of ideas is perhaps the best way to Unify America.
It has escalated to the point that Americans called for a mute button. Whether it was Joe Biden vs. Donald Trump in the presidential debate last year, Lori Lightfoot and Toni Preckwinkle in the Chicago mayoral debate in 2019, or Bruce Rauner and JB Pritzker in the Illinois gubernatorial debate the year before that – not to mention many others – snippy and snarky videos of bickering politicians are what most of think of when we hear the word “debate.”
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