Trump refusing to say that he wants #Ukraine to win when asked a “simple question,” “directly,” should be significant news.
#Election2024 #debate #HarrisWalz2024 #trump
debate
It's your Kamala v. Trump Debate Thread!
LET'S GET IT ON!!
🇺🇸 Keep smiling and grab a drink: We'll get through this together, kid 🇺🇸
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This is the #drudgereport , #nottheonion
Taylor Swift has fulsomely endorsed Kamala Harris on Instagram, describing her as "a steady-handed, gifted leader," making clear that she plans to vote for her in the forthcoming U.S. election, and signing off as a Childless Cat Lady. "I believe we can accomplish so much more in this country if we are led by calm and not chaos. I was so heartened and impressed by her selection of running mate Tim Walz, who has been standing up for LGBTQ+ rights, IVF and a woman's right to her own body for decades," she continued, ending her post with a reminder to followers that they should register to vote. Here's more from USA Today.
#TaylorSwift #KamalHarris #HarrisWalz #Celebrity #USPolitics #USElection #Debate
PREDICTION
Trolls will be out in force on social media following Trump's colossal embarrassment last night at the hands of a smart, capable Black woman. They were already popping up in my feed here, purporting to be from all over the world, picking, picking away at what they want to pretend is bad journalism (when it exposes Trump) and at Western liberal arrogance — and on and on.
My advice: don't take their bait.
Harris dominated Trump in #debate
#KamalaHarris, who was under pressure to define herself…, did so less by outlining her policy positions, though she did some of that, & more by being vigorous & unrelenting in attacking #Trump. She played prosecutor from start to finish. She called him a threat to the future of the country….She portrayed him as obsessed w/himself rather than the people he seeks to serve. She detailed his #criminal convictions & #indictments against him.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/09/11/harris-trump-debate-analysis/
Trump was up by 1.1 points in 538’s average the day after the Biden debate. Harris is up by 2.8 this morning.
We won’t see a dozen stories every day about Republicans freaking out or a zillion polls showing voters questioning Trump’s fitness for office.
This will be about the size of it.
#debate #HarrisWalz2024 #trump #Election2024
How #Harris Roped a Dope
She stayed human when #Trump went feral.
By David Frum
Vice President #KamalaHarris walked onto the #ABC News debate stage w/a mission: trigger a Trump #meltdown.
She succeeded.
Trump had a mission too: control yourself.
He failed.
Trump lost his cool over & over. Goaded by predictable provocations, he succumbed again & again.
#debate #election #HarrisWalz2024
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/09/how-harris-roped-a-dope/679779/
#Trump claimed in a social media post Wednesday that #KamalaHarris was “beaten badly last night” [🤣] & asked, “so why would I do a Rematch?”
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It was another signal that Trump is wavering on whether to participate in another #debate against #Harris despite previously calling for 3.
Meanwhile, Harris’s campaign posted a “new ad” Wednesday that was, simply, footage of Tuesday’s debate in its entirety.
#KamalaHarris’ victory on Tues was so clear that even #FoxNews had to accept #reality.
“Make no mistake about it: #Trump had a bad night,” Brit Hume, #FauxNews chief political analyst, said shortly after the #debate. “He lost the debate repeatedly when she baited him, something I’m sure his advisors had begged him not to do. And we heard so many of the old grievances that we’ve long thought that Trump had learned were not winners politically.”
#HarrisWalz2024
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/09/fox-news-brit-hume-trump-debate/
From Mary L. #Trump
Not only did Vice President #Kamala Harris expose my uncle’s #weakness on the #debate stage last night, which left him seething with rage and reduced to sputtering #incoherence, she also gave millions of us something we have needed for almost a decade — catharsis.
And Harris did it in a way that was not just masterful, it was almost surgical. She #dominated Donald from the outset, crossing the stage to his lectern and forcing him to do something he did not want to do—shake her hand. (I confess, I did not want her to shake his hand—not because I thought it was a tactical mistake, but because I didn’t want her to have to touch him.) And then, while addressing policy issues and giving us substantive answers to the moderator’s questions in a way that underscored how incapable Donald was of doing the same, she slid the knife in again and again. She told him to his face in front of the world that he is a #disgrace. She looked at him with bemused condescension, pity, and outright #contempt. She called out his lies and, worst of all for him, she #mocked his rallies:
“I'm going to invite you to attend one of Donald Trump's rallies because it's a really interesting thing to watch. You will see during the course of his rallies he talks about fictional characters like Hannibal Lecter. He will talk about windmills cause cancer. And what you will also notice is that people start leaving his rallies early out of exhaustion and boredom.”
Donald never recovered from that accurate and damning assessment of one of the most important metrics by which he measures his worth This bit of rhetorical evisceration, which happened at about the 25-minute mark, undid him and he spent the next hour defensive, desperate, and flailing.
We needed someone to call out Donald’s lies in a context he did not control. We needed someone to set the record straight while he had to stand there and listen. Harris did that while laying out his decades’-long patterns of #racist, #corrupt, and #disturbing behaviors that are utterly disqualifying.
For over nine years, this country has been in thrall to a cruel and deranged man who cares only about himself. His constant war on truth and basic human decency has worn us down, #demoralizing those of us who care about other people, who want a better world, and who crave a leader who exhibits empathy and understanding.
We’ve been waiting for somebody in a position of authority to stand up to Donald in a way that would matter, that would loosen Donald’s grip on power and perhaps even undo him. Instead, we’ve watched helplessly as the entire Republican Party bent its knee to him; as corrupt judges give him a pass; and as the #illegitimate super-majority of the Supreme Court ripped up the Constitution in order to give him, this man who has earned nothing and deserves nothing, more power.
Trump debate quotes as read by The Simpsons! By Jayden.
Sure, #womensrights are under attack in the #USA but if you go back 350 years you'll find levels of deranged sadistic #misogyny and #women #hatred that we will just no way, no way return to....
"#MAGA Pastor Claims Kamala #Harris Deployed '#witchcraft' in #Trump #Debate"
https://www.newsweek.com/maga-pastor-claims-kamala-harris-deployed-witchcraft-trump-debate-1952902
...uh, nevermind