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 Trump’s campaign was in damage control mode on Wednesday amid widespread dismay among supporters over a presidential debate performance that saw Kamala Harris, his Democratic opponent, repeatedly goad him into going wildly off-message and missing apparent opportunities to tackle her on policy.

Even with Trump insisting to have won the debate “by a lot”, 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 – who took the unusual step afterwards of visiting the media spin room, a venue normally frequented only by candidates’ surrogates – was non-committal on Wednesday to the Harris campaign’s proposal for a second debate. Despite widespread opinion to the contrary, Trump suggested she needed it because she had lost. “I’d be less inclined to because we had a great night. We won the debate,” he told Fox & Friends.

  • CileTheSane
    31·
    2 months ago

    How often did Trump actually answer a question versus deflection?
    Okay, so let’s ding them both equally for deflection and now let’s focus on how they deflected: Did Kamala say anything nearly as batshit crazy as “schools are forcing surgery on children”?

    • andrewta@lemmy.world
      14·
      2 months ago

      Let’s put this on a scale of 1-10

      10 is top

      Trump was batshit crazy and lied so he gets a 1

      Harris just plain deflected on a ton of stuff, so I ding her to a 2. She had ample opportunity to answer and just plain didn’t. So instead of being bat shit crazy, she either wasn’t prepared or wasn’t able to think on her feet. Either way I give her a two for lack of answers.

      • CileTheSane
        2·
        2 months ago

        So Harris was twice as good as Trump?

        Again I have to ask how low your bar is. If neither answered questions, but Trump insisted on deranged delusions (he doubled down on the claim that immigrants are eating pets when challenged) how do you consider that only slightly worse than someone who didn’t answer questions but lives in reality?

        When Biden had a bad debate Democrats were willing to admit he had a bad debate. It was presented as “we still have to vote for him because Trump wants to be a dictator, but ya, that wasn’t good.”
        Trump makes up absolute nonsense and people try to insist that “it was close.”

        • andrewta@lemmy.world
          12·
          2 months ago

          Umm if you go from 1 to 2 then that sounds like it’s doubled. But if you go from 1 to 2 on a ten point scale then exactly how is that doubled? By that logic going from 2 to 3 is also doubled. Yeah no.

          • CileTheSane
            1·
            2 months ago

            Of course, the only thing you reply to is the random joke and not the actual points being made. I can only assume that means you consider the rest of my post reasonable and agree with it.

              • CileTheSane
                11·
                2 months ago

                Because you don’t say anything relevant you must not have anything relevant to say.

                • andrewta@lemmy.world
                  11·
                  2 months ago

                  At this point with as many ways as questions have been answered and you still don’t get it. I am going to classify you as a troll and just move on. Good luck out there

                  • CileTheSane
                    1·
                    2 months ago

                    “you keep trying to get me to defend my point, which I cannot do. So I’m going to call you a troll and run away.”