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Discussion Thread: First Presidential Debate of the 2024 General Election Between Vice President Kamala Harris and Former President Donald Trump, Part 7 (Post-Debate Thread)
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25 comments

  1. So dumbest line:

    She hates Israel

    She hates Arabs

    Transgendered criminal sex changes in prison

    Immigrants eating dogs

    They are doing after birth abortion

    I have the concept of a plan <— this has my vote.

    Highest level of criminality

    I hate solar, but I am a fan of it.

    Biden hates her

  2. He got completely shit on, so I guess they come out even after all is said and done.

    I hope this performance shifts lots of voters a lot towards Harris, but we’ll see.

  3. Harris absolutely fucking dominated Trump. She is completely in a different dimension than him. Her poll performance is about to skyrocket after this.

  4. “Why didn’t she do it?”

    Why didn’t Trump do any of what he said while he was president?

  5. That closing statement from Trump was really something.

  7. Talking about Germany in a closure statement, Kamala is living rent free hahaha.

  10. Capping off with the Nazi playbook… not a good look…

  11. This was a massacre. Worse than the June debate.

    Trump spent almost 70% of his talk time defending himself rather than talking about what he can do for the American people.

    Even basic bait like “people leave his rallies early” had him so rattled that he wasted the entire segment on immigration, which ironically is the one thing he can’t stop talking about.

    Harris had an answer for everything he said. She consistently referenced facts and it was clear she had done her research.

    You can tell she’s a lawyer because she had a number of “gotcha” moments where she backed him into a corner and made her punches land hard.

    Trump has a lot of room to work in these types of debates because most of what he says are lies. It’s pretty easy to have a rebuttal when you can just make stuff up. Despite that, he lost. Badly.

    He was simply outclassed. What a performance by Harris.

  12. “I have a concept of a plan” – great soundbite from the debate there Donnie

  13. I’d be embarrassed if I were a conservative listening to that.

  14. Anecdotally my undecided dad is now saying he’ll vote for Kamala!!! 🥳🥳🥳

  15. We live in a timeline in which the former President claimed that immigrants were eating peoples dogs and then when presented with a fact check he just said he saw it on TV.

  16. This has to be the most one-sided debate in American history. This is the kind of performance that should give her a Reagan 84′ style landslide. The fact that Trump can still win this despite everything we just watched is an indictment of America society. Hopefully this changes the tide.

  17. > Trump had a bad night.

    FOX news saying things I never expected.

  18. Jake Tapper just called Trump’s debate performance “a 4chan post come to life” on CNN. Damn

  19. > “I’m not Joe Biden and I’m not Donald Trump. I offer a new generation of leadership”

    The quote of the debate.

  20. This………… former president

    Actually made me LOL

  21. Oh god Walz just dropped the “Old man yells at cloud” meme

  22. I pray that this is one of the last times I’ll ever have to watch this man on tv. The only other time I wanna see him speak is when he concedes.

  23. “I have concepts of a plan.”

    HOLY FUCK, PLEASE GOD DON’T VOTE FOR THIS DUDE.

  24. That was a goddamn bloodbath. Harris is a savage.

    I was on the debate team in high school that made it to state and took home a medal. I’ve never seen a better debator than Harris. That was a brutal takedown, and she completely nailed her messaging. He took the bait every time and came off as angry, scared, old liar trying to reclaim his glory days and take out old grievances on his enemies.

    PBS is calling for Harris now too.

  25. I’m absolutely dying. I put on Fox News to hear what they are saying and the first words were Hannity saying, *”We still don’t know if she supports sex change operations for illegal aliens?”*

    Really getting into the issues that voters are passionate about.

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