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Inside the Trump-Harris Debate Prep: Method Acting, Insults, Tough Questions
The New York Times ^ | Sep 07, 2024 09:04 AM | Jonathan Swan, Maggie Haberman, Katie Rogers, Reid J. Epstein

Posted on 09/07/2024 10:48:56 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

Vice President Kamala Harris is holed up for five days in a Pittsburgh hotel, doing highly choreographed debate practice sessions ahead of Tuesday night’s clash. There’s a stage and replica TV lighting and an adviser in full Lee Strasberg method-acting mode, not just playing Donald J. Trump but inhabiting him, wearing a boxy suit and a long tie.

The former president’s preparations are more improv. They are pointedly called not “debate prep” but “policy time,” meant to refresh him on his record. Nobody is playing Ms. Harris; sometimes his aides sit at a long table opposite him and bat questions back and forth, or other times he pulls up a chair closer to them. Mr. Trump has held just a handful of sessions so far, interrupting one at his Las Vegas hotel so he and his advisers could go up to his suite to watch Ms. Harris’s convention speech.

While the two camps’ preparations for the big night in Philadelphia could not be more different, both sides view the debate the same way, according to interviews with nearly two dozen people close to the candidates, many of whom insisted on anonymity to discuss the private preparations. The Harris and Trump teams see it as a crucial moment to define Ms. Harris for millions of swing voters who know what they think about Mr. Trump but are still curious about her.

Bringing out Mr. Trump’s most self-destructive instincts is a priority for Ms. Harris, as is coming across as coolheaded and presidential.

“She should not be baited, she should bait him,” Hillary Clinton, the last woman to debate Mr. Trump, said in an interview on Thursday. “When I said he was a Russian puppet, he...”


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TOPICS: Humor
KEYWORDS: awkward; jonathanswan; katierogers; maggiehaberman; newyork; newyorkcity; newyorkslimes; newyorktimes; reidjepstein
Four bylines means four times the gaslight, Astroturf, projection and lies normally found in a New York Times article.
1 posted on 09/07/2024 10:48:56 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

All Harris has are insults, she has NO agenda to run on except the communist agenda..All Trump has to do is stand there and say “If you want to spend 90 minutes insulting me that’s fine..for 3 1/2 yrs your administration has been nothing more than an insult to the American people, open borders, crime, inflation, botched Afghanistan withdrawals, I will stand here today and explain to the American people how I am going to fix things to make things better for EVERYONE!


2 posted on 09/07/2024 10:56:02 AM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
She has never before been in the position of doing an hour and a half 2 person debate with an enormous viewing audience. She'll be on some type of anxiety medication like Xanax.

Trump will Bidenize her. I predict a meltdown.

3 posted on 09/07/2024 11:01:44 AM PDT by CaptainK ("No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up” -)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
"Four bylines means four times the gaslight..."

It takes four heads to write this kind of $hit? I bet it takes the four of them to screw in a light bulb too.

4 posted on 09/07/2024 11:04:59 AM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

So nothing positive about Kamala. No uplifting vision for the country. Just “rattle Trump!”.


5 posted on 09/07/2024 11:08:45 AM PDT by silent_jonny ("it was God alone who prevented the unthinkable from happening." ~ President Trump 7-14-24)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Excellent!


6 posted on 09/07/2024 11:09:52 AM PDT by silent_jonny ("it was God alone who prevented the unthinkable from happening." ~ President Trump 7-14-24)
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To: CaptainK

I need to add while standing up and with the mike on only when speaking.

She sat during the Pense debate. Her 5’2 will be dwarfed by Trump’s 6ft plus.


7 posted on 09/07/2024 11:10:06 AM PDT by CaptainK ("No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up” -)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Here is what President Trump should say at the closing statement:

Joe Biden admitted that the Harris-Biden administration lied to you when they called it the Inflation Reduction Act in order to pass the Green New Deal. Kamala was the tie-breaking vote to get that bill passed, and then inflation shot through the roof.

Now she's running a campaign of forgetting about the past because she's responsible for it and what they did to you. She lied about passing the Green New Deal, she lied about Biden's health, she lied about her flip-flopping positions, and she's going to lie to you now just to get elected. And her running-mate Tim Walz lied about his entire adult life!

Don't fall for it. You know my record. You know my accomplishments. You know what they tried to do to me. Vote for Donald J. Trump for President.

-PJ
8 posted on 09/07/2024 11:20:42 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: CaptainK

She might have a nip or two before the main event.


9 posted on 09/07/2024 11:24:10 AM PDT by maro (MAGA!)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

He needs to look at old Reagan debates. They worked very well.


10 posted on 09/07/2024 11:40:24 AM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

It’s okay - she is going to screw it up anyway.


11 posted on 09/07/2024 11:54:26 AM PDT by Rummyfan ( In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
“She should not be baited, she should bait him,” Hillary Clinton, the last woman to debate Mr. Trump, said in an interview on Thursday. “When I said he was a Russian puppet...

So bait him by spouting the most outrageous lie you can imagine? That cuts both ways too, and President Trump would nt have to even lie.

12 posted on 09/07/2024 11:57:02 AM PDT by Rummyfan ( In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.)
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To: CaptainK
She'll be on some type of anxiety medication like Xanax.

The risk is that she'll end up looking too much like Joe Biden. It's good to be nervous. So she'll be at the top of her game. If she can handle it.

13 posted on 09/07/2024 12:02:39 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I STILL WANT CLINT EASTWOOD & THE EMPTY CHAIR TO MODERATE.


14 posted on 09/07/2024 12:20:56 PM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“Which Kamala are you tonight...the black Kamala from Cabrini Green, or the Indian Kamala from the rich suburbs in Canada?


15 posted on 09/07/2024 12:41:52 PM PDT by Fireone ("and dumb & silent we may be led, like sheep, to the Slaughter." G. Washington 1783)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Harris has no experience to do this. She will be nervous even if not externally obvious.

Trump will be calm steady and informed.

The deep state will try their best, but it wont be enough to hide their commie candidate.


16 posted on 09/07/2024 1:12:43 PM PDT by reviled downesdad (Abortion is the genocide of people of color by Democrats.)
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To: silent_jonny
So nothing positive about Kamala. No uplifting vision for the country. Just “rattle Trump!”.

One would think it would be so easy to point to, 4 more years of him or 4 more years of me.

Which serves the American people better ?

I guess that is too obvious

17 posted on 09/07/2024 1:23:04 PM PDT by onona
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To: mass55th

This 💩 didn’t come from their heads, it came from the other end.🙄


18 posted on 09/08/2024 4:41:05 AM PDT by BiteYourSelf ( Earth first, we'll strip mine the other planets later.)
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