Vice President Kamala Harris, in the biggest political event of the year, grimaced, squinted, sneered, twitched, pursed her lips, and made faces at Donald Trump during their first debate meet-up, hosted by ABC News on Tuesday evening.
Trump accused Vice President Kamala Harris of copying his plans because she had none of her own during the Tuesday night debate. He called her a Marxist and said she will destroy the United States if elected president.
“She has no policy. Everything that she believed three years ago and four years ago is out the window. She’s going to my philosophy now, in fact, I was gonna send her a MAGA hat,” Trump said, trolling her. “She’s gone to my philosophy, but if she ever got elected, she’d change it. It will be the end of our country. She’s a Marxist. Everybody knows she’s a Marxist. Her father’s a Marxist professor in economics, and he taught her well.”
Harris said she had the support of all the major economists of the world, including those from Goldman Sachs and professors from Wharton School of Business. She said the Biden-Harris Administration had “cleaned up” the mess that Trump had left.
Neither candidate scored points enough to persuade detractors to change their minds, however. Trump was polite to the nervous and twitchy Harris, who made exaggerated facial expressions at Trump, not unlike a teenager.
She was not able to bait him into some of his more legendary interruptive behaviors, however. Trump remained stoic and disciplined to his message, but repeatedly called out Harris on every lie that she told about him — and there were dozens.
Trump criticized the Biden-Harris border policies that have ravaged cities and towns across America.
“They’re criminals. Many of these people are criminals, and that’s bad for our economy too. Well, bad immigration is the worst thing that can happen to our economy. They have, and she has, destroyed our country with policy that’s insane. Almost policy that you say ‘they have to hate our country,” Trump said.
On social media, several commentators said that Harris was wearing earrings that doubled as high-end hearing devices, and that she may have been getting help.
Topics of immigration, the economy, and abortion all came up, but there was no solid talk about energy policy for the United States or security in the Arctic.
The Lincoln Project, which is an anti-Republican organization, immediately published a statement that said, “Harris lit him up and melted his orange face paint like the Nazis in Indiana Jones.”
But an ABC poll done during the debate shows that 92% of viewers thought Trump won the debate, while just 4% thought Harris won. A CNN poll conducted after the debate showed Trump inching up from 53% to 55% and Harris inched down from 37% to 35% with poll participants.
