Posted on 09/10/2024 8:04:28 PM PDT by bitt
Harris chose to spend five days of rigorous preparation by engaging in mock debates against someone posing as Trump. According to news reports Trump used informal policy review sessions with aides, not actual debate practice sessions.
Harris practiced under fire and memorized responses to questions thrown at her. Trump did not. He chose an ad lib approach to the debate.
Ultimately both candidates made decisions, and own, their debate prep strategies. Trump chose to wing it during the debate. As a result he was often playing defense.
As to fairness of the moderators, both candidates knew the bias of ABC and the moderators. Both candidates agreed to the terms. If you choose to dive into a pit of angry snakes expect to be bitten. Ultimately Trump owns his preparation decisions and performance, good or bad.
Trump had the option of not debating. All he had to do was agree to debate Harris on a liberal network with liberal moderators and insist she debate him on a conservative network with conservative moderators. Fair is fair. Harris would never have agreed to this condition. It would have been her backing out, not Trump.
I watched the entire debate, PDJT did a great job in spite of having the entire deck stacked against him.
“ David Muir should get a check from the DNC.”
Ha..he likely does, big ones from the DNC and probably the Intelligence Community (sic) too.
Hopefully they WILL get to the polls....and MAGA.
Exactly.
I bet they get the David Hasselhoff endorsement next.
This was for a very narrow audience. 3? 4%? that can be swayed one way or the other. And, as always, the events upon which the election turns may not yet have occurred. .
I dont think he did any prep. This was a total repeat of 2020 when Trump debated Biden/Chris Wallace the only difference being tonight he debated 3 people.
This is not good, the commies are succeeding with their Obama puppet and their propaganda, the only good thing is we still have about 58 days left and a lot could happen in that time but Trump has to get his campaign in high gear.
The commies and their Obama puppet have hundreds of hired, volunteers, absolutely flooding social media, especially apps like Tik Tok with constant pro-Kamala anti-Trump videos, live shows and I’m seeing almost none of that from Trumps side. Matter of fact I cant even think of one Trump ad I saw on TV.
“He did this so people could see her.”
I hadn’t considered that, I believe that you are right. He let millions of people see what she really is, a pathological liar. She blatantly lied about her position on guns, fracking and healthcare in front of millions of people.
But what good is it if people don’t know they’re lies.?
You live in NY…they aren’t running there.
I live in Las Vegas, far more Trump and anti-Harris ads here than pro-Kamala ads.
The difference is that the ads are running in competitive states.
“But what good is it if people don’t know they’re lies.?”
How do you compensate for stupid people who don’t pay attention to what is going on around them?
“Harris proved to be an exceptionally good liar.”
No. She’s a prolific liar. But she’s not very good at it. Her lies are obvious and can be easily proven.
L
You think he lost. I don’t.
He refrained from calling out Muir as a partisan.
He refused to be baited by gotcha questions.
He called her out as being awol on the border.
He redirected multiple questions and conversations back to the illegal aliens and the destruction of the fabric of society.
He put her on defense about positions she has espoused but now pretends never to have espoused.
He tied her to the admin of which she claimed to be no more than an innocent bystander.
I think we should watch for the bulletin board material each side can glean from the debate, to be shown in future ads.I think Trump won the lion’s share of those clips.
He was swimming upstream against 3 opponents and into a headwind of partisan fact-checking, and came out very well, I think.
But I know opinions vary.
I would agree. In his closing statement Trump essentially said: “You’re telling me you’re going to do these things, but you’ve had 3.5+ plus years to do them, but you haven’t”.
You have the same take on the debate as I did. PDJT was against three people who were very hostile. He did an excellent job of bringing the discussion back to the failed Biden Administration and how Harris is a major player.
Absolutely true. There are almost two months left, which is an eternity in politics. I expect to see an "October surprise."
And very good at wearing wireless earring headphones-— on camera.
https://patriots.win/p/1994p18Kzg/nice-earrings-/c
For the first time since 1998, I didn’t come here for a major political event. This place is a cesspool of fifth columnists, concern trolls, and liberals.
Reading the threads, I’m going to do it more often.
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