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Who won the Trump-Harris debate? The Times analysis: One of them realized the loss

2024-09-12 08:35:24Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Who won the Trump-Harris debate? The Times analysis: One of them realized the
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The Republican presidential candidate's appearance in the 'pressroom' to defend his performance hinted at the winner of this race.

Americans watched the former president lose as he debated an intense 100-minute duel for the White House.

Kamala Harris was known for her "word salad" answers to complicated questions, but her sharp, forensic performance left those answers behind her, while Donald Trump's answers got more and more jumbled the deeper she went. under his skin, writes The Times in an analysis.

Despite the empty hall in Philadelphia, the temperature quickly rose as the arguments became personal and provocative.

Harris, as expected, showed her ability as a lawyer to preserve and put the facts to her advantage. The surprise in her performance wasn't her poise and refusal to be swayed by Trump's personal attacks, but the ferocious number of criticisms she leveled at him as she rolled up her sleeves and went head-to-head with a man who believes that the best form of defense is attack.

The mistakes started small, with one mention that economists at the Wharton School of Business, which Trump attended, had judged her economic plans to be better than his.

Trump said Wharton thought his plans were "great," but he took the bait after about 25 minutes, when Harris criticized his rallies and claimed people are "tired and bored."

The former president's angry reaction suggested there was something he cared about deeply, taking valuable debate time during a segment on his strongest immigration issue to defend his “most incredible rallies in the history of politics". Trump then started talking about Haitian immigrants eating American pets in Ohio — an internet rumor with no evidence.

Harris again managed to remind viewers of her opponent's fragile ego by using one of his favorite attacks against him, saying that "world leaders are laughing at Donald Trump".

Trump, for whom there is no greater insult, launched a defense of his international credibility based on the support of Viktor Orban, the prime minister of Hungary, whom he called a "strong man".

These passages showed that, while Harris did not have all the answers, she clearly had prepared some effective diversions when pressed about her most vulnerable issues.

On the first major topic of economics, the pair were closely aligned, each claiming their own successes and pointing out the other's failures. When Harris attacked Trump over his plans for more import taxes, he effectively countered that the Biden administration had retained all of his previous tariffs.

The vice president used this as an opportunity to outline her specific cash assistance plans for new parents and small businesses — a smart move given that the first 15 or 20 minutes get most of the attention.

Then came a section on abortion, an issue on which most voters side with Democrats, when Trump characteristically doubled down by claiming that it took "courage" to end Roe v. Wade, and with it and the constitutional right for women to perform the procedure. Harris had one of her most effective moments conjuring up images of battered women, letting Trump fall back on a weak response to student loans.

But it was Trump who kept repeating himself, regardless of the question, in his argument that the Biden-Harris administration had allowed in millions of illegal immigrants who were "destroying" the country. This was no surprise given that he is consistently rated as the most trusted candidate to handle migration after record numbers of arrivals last year.

Harris reminded viewers that Trump told Republicans in Congress to kill a bipartisan bill to strengthen border security earlier this year, and that's when she effectively approached Trump's rallies.

Trump failed in several ways: he continued to attack Biden and not his opponent; he never delivered a blow that knocked Harris out of the game, as she did him; and he gave little indication of his plans for America.

Trump went back on his claim that he won the 2020 election, allowing Harris to launch another prepared attack: "Donald Trump got away from 81 million people and it's clear he's having a hard time accepting it this".

Harris also tried to interrupt, playing the same card as Trump, saying: "Wait a minute, I'm talking now ... does that sound familiar?"

Another question that played to Harris' strengths came in Trump's remarks at a meeting with black reporters that Harris "a few years ago ... turned black."

At the debate podium, Trump said: "I couldn't care less, whatever she wants to be is fine with me." He then claimed that he read that Harris turned out that she was not black "and then I read that she was black". There is no evidence that Harris made such statements.

She used the discussion as a chance to pledge to be "a president for all Americans," saying, "Frankly, I think it's a tragedy that we have someone who wants to be president who long throughout his career tried to use race to divide the American people."

Unlike CNN's Biden-Trump debate, the ABC moderators corrected some of Trump's statements, such as his claim about abortion, saying, "There is no state in this country where it is legal to kill a baby after it is born." born."

Afterward, Trump supporters like Vivek Ramashamy called the moderators biased, calling it a three-to-one debate.

As for Trump himself walking into the room where reporters are conducting interviews to claim victory afterward, it hinted that he, too, realized he had been hit by Harris that night.


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