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National Review
If youâre obsessing over how bad, how in the tank for Kamala Harris, the two ABC news moderators were, itâs because you donât want to come to grips with the brute fact that Donald Trump was a disaster last night. He was unhinged, often incoherent, incapable of completing thoughts and sentences when he had points to make, and led into self-absorbed rabbit-holes â claims that he won the 2020 election, the size of his rallies, whether âmigrantsâ are eating stolen pets â that diverted him from opportunity after opportunity to expose Harris as a radical leftist now pretending to be a pragmatic centrist who suddenly loves her some guns.â
âTrump had one job: stay on message about Harrisâs dizzying renunciations of her positions â so inexplicable that Harris has dribbled them out through nameless campaign sources rather than addressed them in her own voiceâŚâ
âTrump couldnât do it. And yes, thatâs largely because he is an undisciplined solipsist so effortlessly drawn into railing about rally attendance when the subject at hand is Harrisâs indefensible border record â and if you think last nightâs target audience cares whether the interlocutor steering Trump off course was Harris or the moderators, then youâre missing the point.â
âBut thereâs more to it than that. Trump also couldnât stick to deconstructing Harrisâs âvaluesâ bunk because his own values are always negotiable.â
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WSJ
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) called the debate a âmissed opportunity. He had a chance to lay it all out.â
Of Harris, he said: âI think she handled herself well, she had a good disposition. Her biggest failure was to convince people things are going to change if sheâs president. It was all happy talk.â
Sen. Kevin Cramer (R., N.D.) said Trump would have been well served to bring up more details on mortgage rates, inflation data and border crossings during his term compared with the Biden administration.
âI think that was unfortunate last night because I think the details of his broader message are really important,â Cramer said. âHe treated it like a mini-rally in a lot of respects. Youâve got to be talking to those swing voters in swing states. He could do that better with details.â
Cramer said Harris âhelped herself,â adding, âI donât think she knocked him off.â
Republicans accused the moderators of bias but privately grimaced as Trump again claimed that the 2020 election was riggedâsomething his advisers have long hoped he would move pastâand played down the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by his supporters.
Fox News
Itâs pretty clear to me that on Tuesday night, Vice President Kamala Harris won what may be the only debate between herself and former President Trump. The vice president had some help, too. She was aided and abetted by two ABC News moderators who seemingly felt the need to fact-check virtually everything the former president said.
The former president was clearly frustrated and became more strident and divisive as the nearly two-hour debate continued. And the vice president appeared to gain renewed confidence as she saw Trump faltering under relentless questioning from herself and moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis.
Although Harris clearly won the debate in my estimation, it isnât at all clear that this debate, just 56 days before the election, will fundamentally impact the outcome on Nov. 5.
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Just some of the right-wing commentary on the debacle that was Trump. It's about time the right accepted that Trump is not up to the job. He was fired once from the position, so it's unclear why the Republicans would think he would fare any better the second time around.
If youâre obsessing over how bad, how in the tank for Kamala Harris, the two ABC news moderators were, itâs because you donât want to come to grips with the brute fact that Donald Trump was a disaster last night. He was unhinged, often incoherent, incapable of completing thoughts and sentences when he had points to make, and led into self-absorbed rabbit-holes â claims that he won the 2020 election, the size of his rallies, whether âmigrantsâ are eating stolen pets â that diverted him from opportunity after opportunity to expose Harris as a radical leftist now pretending to be a pragmatic centrist who suddenly loves her some guns.â
âTrump had one job: stay on message about Harrisâs dizzying renunciations of her positions â so inexplicable that Harris has dribbled them out through nameless campaign sources rather than addressed them in her own voiceâŚâ
âTrump couldnât do it. And yes, thatâs largely because he is an undisciplined solipsist so effortlessly drawn into railing about rally attendance when the subject at hand is Harrisâs indefensible border record â and if you think last nightâs target audience cares whether the interlocutor steering Trump off course was Harris or the moderators, then youâre missing the point.â
âBut thereâs more to it than that. Trump also couldnât stick to deconstructing Harrisâs âvaluesâ bunk because his own values are always negotiable.â
Trumpâs Trainwreck | National Review
The media are always biased against the Republican, as Trump knew when he agreed to an ABC-moderated debate. That wasnât the main problem last night.
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WSJ
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) called the debate a âmissed opportunity. He had a chance to lay it all out.â
Of Harris, he said: âI think she handled herself well, she had a good disposition. Her biggest failure was to convince people things are going to change if sheâs president. It was all happy talk.â
Sen. Kevin Cramer (R., N.D.) said Trump would have been well served to bring up more details on mortgage rates, inflation data and border crossings during his term compared with the Biden administration.
âI think that was unfortunate last night because I think the details of his broader message are really important,â Cramer said. âHe treated it like a mini-rally in a lot of respects. Youâve got to be talking to those swing voters in swing states. He could do that better with details.â
Cramer said Harris âhelped herself,â adding, âI donât think she knocked him off.â
Republicans accused the moderators of bias but privately grimaced as Trump again claimed that the 2020 election was riggedâsomething his advisers have long hoped he would move pastâand played down the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by his supporters.
Fox News
Itâs pretty clear to me that on Tuesday night, Vice President Kamala Harris won what may be the only debate between herself and former President Trump. The vice president had some help, too. She was aided and abetted by two ABC News moderators who seemingly felt the need to fact-check virtually everything the former president said.
The former president was clearly frustrated and became more strident and divisive as the nearly two-hour debate continued. And the vice president appeared to gain renewed confidence as she saw Trump faltering under relentless questioning from herself and moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis.
Although Harris clearly won the debate in my estimation, it isnât at all clear that this debate, just 56 days before the election, will fundamentally impact the outcome on Nov. 5.
The two biggest losers at the Trump-Harris debate
Vice President Kamala Harris walked onto the debate stage with a mission to articulate a clear vision for how the next four years would be better than under President Biden. And former President Trump had a big job, too.
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Just some of the right-wing commentary on the debacle that was Trump. It's about time the right accepted that Trump is not up to the job. He was fired once from the position, so it's unclear why the Republicans would think he would fare any better the second time around.
