Yesterday we all watched the debate together, and I loved seeing the discussion in The Preamble chat as it was happening. Y’all have a lot of thoughts!
Let me give you my impressions.
Donald Trump did not have a good night.
And I am not alone in this – media on both the right and the left mostly arrived at the same conclusion:
Harris set out to take the offense, and she did that, starting with walking across the stage to Trump’s podium and sticking out her hand to introduce herself.
Her strategy was clearly to get under Donald Trump’s skin and knock him off his game by provoking him. And it worked.
Let me give you an example. Kamala Harris was asked by the moderator what she would do differently than President Biden with regard to immigration and the surge of migrants at the border.
Instead of saying, “Here are the ways I differ from Biden on this topic,” she used a tactic to: