GOP lawmakers and analysts virtually unanimous that Trump was second best to Harris in first presidential debate

GOP lawmakers and analysts virtually unanimous that Trump was second best to Harris in first presidential debate

Donald Trumpā€™s campaign was in damage control mode on Wednesday amid widespread dismay among supporters over aĀ presidential debate performanceĀ that sawĀ Kamala Harris, his Democratic opponent, repeatedly goad him into going wildly off-message and missing apparent opportunities to tackle her on policy.

Even with TrumpĀ insistingĀ to have won the debate ā€œby a lotā€, Republicans were virtually unanimous that Trump had come off second best in a series of exchanges that saw the vice-president deliberately bait him on his weak points while he responded with visible anger.

The Republican nominee ā€“ who took the unusual step afterwards of visiting the media spin room, a venue normally frequented only by candidatesā€™ surrogates ā€“ was non-committal on Wednesday to the Harris campaignā€™s proposal for a second debate. Despite widespread opinion to the contrary, Trump suggested she needed it because she had lost. ā€œIā€™d be less inclined to because we had a great night. We won the debate,ā€ he told Fox & Friends.

  • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
    23Ā·
    2 months ago

    Itā€™s just the_donald now.

    The whole party got taken over by crazies, and all the normal people are realising and getting out.

    Guess itā€™s hard to argue about child starvation being a matter of personal responsibility when the person next to you is wearing a KKK hood with a swastika on it.

    • Emtity_13@lemmy.sdf.org
      4Ā·
      2 months ago

      I still pine the hornets nest, both becuse itā€™s funny to see them get more and more angry, and on the very far off chance that it convices those of them left

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      4Ā·
      2 months ago

      and all the normal people are realising and getting out.

      No. Unfortunately not. They are just shutting up about it because theyā€™re embarrassed.

      Though that was one of the first steps the country took to move past GWB (though unfortunately they moved to the right)ā€¦ People becoming embarrassed to admit they voted for and/or supported him.

      I can speak from personal experience as the first presidential election I voted in was 2004 and at that time I had just begun my deconversion process from Evangelical Christianity, and I voted for Bush.

      I still cringe when I think about it. And it was within 4 years that I had become a progressive atheist. So maybe weā€™re not entirely screwed (though these people donā€™t seem to have the ability to think rationally that came to me naturally).