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Kamala Harris emerges unscathed from debate, dancing round her flip-flops
WASHINGTON: She ducked, she weaved, and he or she danced round questions on her coverage flip-flops and sketchy file in workplace. In between, Kamala Harris landed sharp blows on Donald Trump, reminding American voters of not simply his chaotic years in workplace but additionally poking his ego. She mentioned world leaders and US generals assume he’s a “shame,” she taunted him concerning the dimension of his rallies, and he or she mocked him for his inherited fortune and his bankruptcies.
In flip, Trump referred to as her a “Marxist” and savaged her for top costs and inflation, for letting in thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of unlawful immigrants which he mentioned had led to rising crime, for not having any coverage plans of her personal and copying his, and for weaponizing the courts in opposition to him. However he spent lots of time and vitality defending himself and repeating worn strains from his marketing campaign rallies.
On the finish of 90 minutes of fierce forwards and backwards within the Presidential debate on Tuesday, Kamala Harris acquired away largely unscathed and smiling. Donald Trump regarded offended and annoyed after being baited. The distinction was evident within the Harris marketing campaign, buoyed by her efficiency, instantly in search of a second debate; Trump, on his half, stormed into the post-debate spin room (which presidential candidates by no means do) to claim he had gained the face-off, at the same time as his marketing campaign claimed it was a 3-1 struggle with the ABC Information’ moderators ganging up with Harris.
There have been a number of outstanding moments in debate, none greater than when Trump, in an effort to stoke voter fears over unlawful immigration, resorted to validating the grisly rumors that unlawful immigrants are consuming pets in Ohio. “In Springfield, they’re consuming the canines, the folks that got here in, they’re consuming the cats, they’re consuming the pets of the folks that stay there and that is what’s occurring,” Trump mentioned, as Harris first regarded on with an incredulous expression after which started to snicker, even because the moderators fact-checked former president, saying metropolis officers had debunked the studies.
On the 2 points she is most susceptible on — inflation and the Afghanistan fiasco — Harris pushed again, blaming Trump for leaving the Biden administration with a cratered economic system after mishandling Covid and for negotiating “one of many weakest offers you may think about” with Taliban and welcoming its leaders to Camp David. She additionally talked her approach out of her acceptance of fracking, explaining that her place is that “we’ve acquired to spend money on numerous sources of vitality, so we scale back our reliance on international oil.”
Distracted by her tactic of getting beneath his pores and skin, it appeared Trump was merely unable to nail her to the failures of the Biden administration or for such coverage reversals, as he meandered into the inefficacy of photo voltaic vitality, immigrants consuming pets, and international dictators admiring him. Many occasions in some ways, Trump appeared to let himself down.
Whereas the MAGA media talked up on how Trump would trample over Harris, what transpired was something however that because the vice-president skillfully needled the previous President, projecting confidence from the get-go though there was a touch of nerves. She strode as much as Trump’s lectern earlier than the beginning of the talk to proffer a handshake, saying, ” Kamala Harris. Let’s have an excellent debate.”
Trump: “Good to see you. Have enjoyable.”
And enjoyable she had, needling him repeatedly to take him away from specializing in her dodgy file, after she danced away from the very first query she confronted: do you consider People are higher off than they had been 4 years in the past? Quite than responding sure or no, she launched into her plans to spice up the economic system, slipping in a cost that her opponent’s tax minimize proposal would quantity to a “Trump gross sales tax.”
Trump needed to clarify and defend himself in opposition to a number of such darts. Amongst them “not all people acquired handed $400 million on a silver platter after which filed chapter six occasions” “Donald Trump was fired by 81 million folks… and clearly, he’s having a really troublesome time processing that” (concerning the 2020 elections)
In flip, Trump referred to as her a “Marxist” and savaged her for top costs and inflation, for letting in thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of unlawful immigrants which he mentioned had led to rising crime, for not having any coverage plans of her personal and copying his, and for weaponizing the courts in opposition to him. However he spent lots of time and vitality defending himself and repeating worn strains from his marketing campaign rallies.
On the finish of 90 minutes of fierce forwards and backwards within the Presidential debate on Tuesday, Kamala Harris acquired away largely unscathed and smiling. Donald Trump regarded offended and annoyed after being baited. The distinction was evident within the Harris marketing campaign, buoyed by her efficiency, instantly in search of a second debate; Trump, on his half, stormed into the post-debate spin room (which presidential candidates by no means do) to claim he had gained the face-off, at the same time as his marketing campaign claimed it was a 3-1 struggle with the ABC Information’ moderators ganging up with Harris.
There have been a number of outstanding moments in debate, none greater than when Trump, in an effort to stoke voter fears over unlawful immigration, resorted to validating the grisly rumors that unlawful immigrants are consuming pets in Ohio. “In Springfield, they’re consuming the canines, the folks that got here in, they’re consuming the cats, they’re consuming the pets of the folks that stay there and that is what’s occurring,” Trump mentioned, as Harris first regarded on with an incredulous expression after which started to snicker, even because the moderators fact-checked former president, saying metropolis officers had debunked the studies.
On the 2 points she is most susceptible on — inflation and the Afghanistan fiasco — Harris pushed again, blaming Trump for leaving the Biden administration with a cratered economic system after mishandling Covid and for negotiating “one of many weakest offers you may think about” with Taliban and welcoming its leaders to Camp David. She additionally talked her approach out of her acceptance of fracking, explaining that her place is that “we’ve acquired to spend money on numerous sources of vitality, so we scale back our reliance on international oil.”
Distracted by her tactic of getting beneath his pores and skin, it appeared Trump was merely unable to nail her to the failures of the Biden administration or for such coverage reversals, as he meandered into the inefficacy of photo voltaic vitality, immigrants consuming pets, and international dictators admiring him. Many occasions in some ways, Trump appeared to let himself down.
Whereas the MAGA media talked up on how Trump would trample over Harris, what transpired was something however that because the vice-president skillfully needled the previous President, projecting confidence from the get-go though there was a touch of nerves. She strode as much as Trump’s lectern earlier than the beginning of the talk to proffer a handshake, saying, ” Kamala Harris. Let’s have an excellent debate.”
Trump: “Good to see you. Have enjoyable.”
And enjoyable she had, needling him repeatedly to take him away from specializing in her dodgy file, after she danced away from the very first query she confronted: do you consider People are higher off than they had been 4 years in the past? Quite than responding sure or no, she launched into her plans to spice up the economic system, slipping in a cost that her opponent’s tax minimize proposal would quantity to a “Trump gross sales tax.”
Trump needed to clarify and defend himself in opposition to a number of such darts. Amongst them “not all people acquired handed $400 million on a silver platter after which filed chapter six occasions” “Donald Trump was fired by 81 million folks… and clearly, he’s having a really troublesome time processing that” (concerning the 2020 elections)
