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Would you be interested in expanding this to other candidates (like those in other races, running for Vice President, or nominated by other parties)? Would it add significantly more work?

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I’d love to. If you’re able to find a repository of transcripts for the speeches, I can add them to the index. May be users can then pick which two candidates to see side-by-side.

I’m not certain exactly what to look for, but ducking “«nominee name» speech transcript” for each of the top three https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_parties_in_the_Unite... brings these acceptance speeches as the respective top results:

https://www.democracyinaction.us/2020/thirdparty/lpconvjorge... https://howiehawkins.us/hawkins-nomination-speech/ https://www.democracyinaction.us/2020/thirdparty/constitutio...

(I can’t seem to find any big repository like rev’s, which for some reason seems to have only speeches from the Democrats, Republicans, and Birthday Party: https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/kanye-west-rally-speech...)

I'm not trying to be snarky here, but are you using 'ducking' as a verb for using duckduckgo? I ask because that makes sense in context, but I naturally assume that word to be a more polite version of 'fucking' because that's how I'm used to seeing it being used. Is ducking something people say?

Yes to the first question, and also to the second if you count me and DDG’s (paid) marketing material’s authors (IDK about anyone else) :)

Here is a repo of every presidential debate in history, in an easy-to-parse format. I'm adding the VP debates in tomorrow: https://github.com/mytakedotorg/us-presidential-debates

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