Irish Examiner View: Battle of succession — the rematch

Joe Biden and his team will be hoping Donald Trump’s TV debabte style will jolt voters

Former US president Donald Trump and President Joe Biden have agreed the dates for their television debates. Picture: Steven Hirsch/New York Post via AP, Pool

Viewers of the media/politics HBO mega-series Succession, and there were very many of them, will recall that it ended, this time last year, with a tumultuous election night drama being played out on, and influenced by, network television.

While the series provided an art-imitating-life backdrop to the narrative arc of the Trump presidency, it also brought a plausible and chilling insight into the US political process.