Merge said:

On the debate, Harris came in with a plan to stay calm, say very little substantively and bait Trump into going off the rails. Any other sane Republican would have crushed her on the issues.

I wouldn’t make the case that Harris “won”. She didn’t respond to many of the questions, and didn’t really convey a strong understanding of many issues. In any other year, she would be viewed as a very bad candidate. Standing next to Trump makes her look a lot better.

Much easier to make the case that Trump lost though. He was unfocused, took the bait from Harris every single time and just sounded crazy at times.

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SHUHoopsFan said:

She’s never come out and said she’s for Israel.

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chickenbox said:

Overlooked, that Harris wants to do transgender surgeries on illegal immigrants. What a ****ing clown.

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SHUSA said:

right so might as well go with the cool calm collected one

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SHUHoopsFan said:

You’re right if you think cool calm and collected is what undecided people are looking for. If you’re undecided at this point I’m betting you’re concerned about 2 or 3 issues and we got zero answers on any issues. In 2 weeks people are going to care about the issues they didn’t get answers to

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cernjSHU said:

There is no question about who Harris wants to win the war. There was a question of who Trump wants to win the war. It’s clear he wants the enemy of the USA to win the war. That why she wasn’t asked the same question.

Second, yes she ducked the first question but that is not the same type of softball question that was asked of Trump. Every other person who has been in the Whitr House would say Ukraine. But not Trump. Just another example of that he is a puppet of Putin. Let’s not excuse this. He is telling you exactly where his loyalties are. And it’s not America First.

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SHUHoopsFan said:

Her first question was are people better off now and she responded about being brought up middle class. Both candidates dodged answering every question. She just did it better than him. Don’t you think it’s silly they asked him who he wants to win that war but not ask her who she wants to win the other war? That would be fair right?

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SOpirate said:

IMO Harris won some undecided voters tonight. She appeared calm cool and collected compared to Trump’s ranting. If you didn’t know much about her coming in you left with the impression that she has a very strong aura.

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SHUSA said:

and of course the best sound bite. immigrants eating dogs, cats, and pets.

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SOpirate said:

Perhaps as important as the debate as whole are the individual soundbites that come out of it. Harris was able to get her line in on every issue she wanted to while Trump was stuck defending crowd sizes and debating Biden.

I don’t know if this debate will move the needle, but it was an unmitigated disaster for Trump. He did not look Presidential in the slightest.

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SHUHoopsFan said:

If people were unsure of who they were voting for I don’t think they got an answer tonight. You knew going into tonight Trump could hurt himself and you didn’t know what plan Kamala has. You turned off the TV watching Trump hurt himself and got no answers on topics from Kamala. If you went into tonight undecided I’m not sure what new knowledge you walked out with.

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cernjSHU said:

I think Trump was terrible. One very telling point was when asked directly yes or no, do you want Ukraine to win the war, Trump refused to answer and say he wants to stop the war. How disgraceful that he wants our enemies to win the war and to give up our friends. Kamala had some good moments. She was adequate. She should have landed knockout blows and she failed to take advantage of the many deranged comments made by Trump.

She should have stated that he negotiated with the Taliban who was the accomplices of Bin Laden. And on the anniversary date of 9/11, he invited the terriers of 9/11 to Camp David. She missed on some vital details.

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SOpirate said:

He could have pinned her down on any issue. The economy, Afghanistan, the border. Instead he went down the rabbit hole all night and all it took was a few simple bait lines. Hillary is somewhere kicking herself.

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SHUHoopsFan said:

trumps chose to defend the crowd size. He should have forced her to answer the first question are people better off now than years ago which she never answered.

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