I existed when the Clinton project was all set to celebration. This race isn’t over till it’s over– even if Trump leapt the shark.
Upgraded Sep. 11, 2024 3:40 PM EDT / Published Sep. 11, 2024 3:37 PM EDT
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For those who hyped Tuesday night’s face-off as a reverse of the June dispute, where 78-year-old Donald Trump would provide as the dementia-ridden old guy to 59-year-old spry Kamala Harris were simply plain incorrect.
A doddering old guy, he was not.
Donald Trump didn’t limp onto the phase, his eyes were not uninhabited, his skin was not gray and his sentences were meaningful, even when ridiculous.
And in the very first half an hour, Trump battled like a guy who– actually– has his life on the line.
And after that, he ended up being Donald Trump.
Rather of concentrating on the extremely genuine vulnerabilities Harris’ project has around concerns crucial to the narrow piece of the swing state electorate who will choose the election– generally the economy and border security– he leapt the shark in common Trump style.
Unexpectedly we were lost in an alternative truth word salad where migrants are consuming felines and pets, guvs in blue states are permitting children to be performed after they are born, and locked up prohibited aliens are getting gender shift surgical treatment in their cells.
In order to win on Tuesday night (and perhaps in November), Trump required to show discipline and focus, showing to the nation that the Vice President is what he has actually made her out to be: weak, inexperienced and precariously liberal– a job he stopped working at in amazing style.
Kamala Harris is not Joe Biden: she is young, dynamic and can string together a sentence.
That’s not why she provided a squashing blow to Donald Trump last night. Kamala Harris didn’t win the argument since she’s not Joe Biden– she won due to the fact that she is Kamala Harris. Her prosecutorial abilities were on complete screen as she sliced and diced the previous president on whatever from Russia to his rap sheet. She showed depth and understanding on a broad range of complicated policy and geopolitical concerns. She was polished and poised.
Trump and Harris’ argument might have appeared terminal for the previous president however the election stays a dive ball.
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Ladies are constantly anticipated to surpass the bar set for them, while their male equivalents just need to appear. Kamala Harris understood that– and she cleared the bar and after that some.
A CNN snap poll taken instantly after the dispute verified as much: 63% of audiences stated Harris the winner, while just 37% boiled down in favor of Trump’s efficiency. And while this might appear like cause for event, Democrats require to tamp down the festivity, put the champagne away and keep in mind the not-so-distant past. In the very same CNN survey taken right away after the very first basic election argument in between Trump and Clinton in 2016,