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Real-Time Reactions to the Trump-Harris Debate
Kamala Harris told viewers they would hear from Donald Trump a bunch of the same old attacks, lies, and name-calling, and that’s exactly what they heard.
Asked about his economic plan if reelected, Trump worked in the claim that immigrants are “taking over” America. In one impressive run-on sentence, Trump accused Harris of not having an economic plan, of having Biden’s plan, and of having a “four-sentence plan, like ‘Run, Spot, Run.’” Later, he accused Harris of being a socialist and implied that her father taught her to be one. He described Democrats’ position on abortion as accepting the killing of 9-month-old babies, claiming that Tim Walz specifically endorsed such a thing. All of that was said in the debate’s first 15 minutes.
One of the moderators, Linsey Davis, politely pointed out:
“There is no state in which it is legal to kill a baby after it’s been born.”
Yes, that had to be said at a presidential debate.
Quite unlike a socialist, Harris used a small-government conservative argument for reproductive rights. The government shouldn’t be telling women what to do with their bodies. She highlighted the costs of “Trump’s…
