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| Kamala's Condescending and Mocking Debate Faces May Be What Voters Remember |
| 2024-09-15 |
| BLUF: [LI] So, my hot take—though it’s not so hot, as things have cooled off—is that Trump was Trump. He seems to have resonated with voters focusing on the economy and made gains there. He didn’t score the points he could have and should have scored. Harris was smug—your typical smug liberal. I see it all over X and elsewhere: They’re thrilled with her facial expressions, thrilled with how she mocked him visually while he was talking, and that was deliberate. There’s no question that was deliberate—that was part of their plan. I just don’t know how that’s going to play. I don’t think it’s going to play well. I don’t think anybody’s coming out of this feeling warm and fuzzy about Kamala Harris. If her goal was to raise her stature, I don’t think she accomplished that. I don’t think she did damage to Trump. After everything that’s been said about Trump in the last 10 years, it’s hard to imagine anyone doing damage at this point. People who are going to vote for him will vote for him. But I think she missed an opportunity as well. She needed to elevate herself, and a lot of the focus group comments I’ve seen said she didn’t convince them she would do anything different. One thing I will give Trump 100% credit for was his closing two minutes, where he hit on the theme that if she’s going to do all these things, why hasn’t she done them in the last three and a half years? Very frustrating night—practically throwing things at the computer. I won’t say the TV because I don’t have a TV anymore, but throwing things at the computer. A lot of frustration with the moderators—they manipulate our elections every time. Can we stop going back for more abuse? Can we make that pledge, at least? That’s how I come away from it. My hot take is I’m not sure how this moved the election, but it was a missed opportunity to deal a deep blow to the Harris campaign. Now we move on. There are almost two months left, and we’ll see if the trends, which were moving toward Trump, continue or reverse. All around, if I had to put a single word to what happened last night, it would be: frustration. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #5 Not to mention the most visible and amusing proof of how much she lied! She didn't lie - she really believes this. That's that makes leftists so dangerous - they live in a fantasy world. |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-09-15 15:11 |
| #4 In fairness to Kammie, and Joey B too, their speaking problems actually match how they think, which is not at all. Then somebody else decides what to do. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2024-09-15 15:05 |
| #3 Not to mention the most visible and amusing proof of how much she lied! https://www.youtube.com/shorts/mIdq8tu0FdE |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2024-09-15 14:21 |
| #2 or when asked what she would do to improve the economy she gave a long vignette about when she was growing up people were proud of their lawns |
| Posted by: Lord Garth 2024-09-15 10:00 |
| #1 That was a debate where watchers were generally uninterested in Trump -- the known quantity. Rather, Kamala was being closely observed for the first time. And viewers did not like what they saw. Who actually won the debate was immaterial. |
| Posted by: S MAI 2024-09-15 07:40 |