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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)


    This post is the seventh and hopefully-final discussion thread for tonight's debate. The first through sixth threads were locked and refreshed when they gathered too many comments, and the first, the second, the third, and the fourth, and the fifth, and the sixth threads are available at the preceding, embedded links.

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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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    2. HandSack135 on

      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

    3. CrotchoMan on

      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.

    4. CodyFinishedTheStory on

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

    11. rabid89 on

      Things Kamala didn’t talk about nearly enough:

      – Trump being a convicted criminal

      – Project 2025 and how terrifying it is

      – Trump being a rapist

      – Trump grifting money from every source possible (selling bibles, shoes, pieces of his suit, NFTs….). A consummate scam artist.

      But overall a very strong debate by Kamala. She was fantastic. Strong, well spoken, talking about actual plans on how she wants to improve the country, defending Women’s rights, and point out that all Trump sows is fear, hate and chaos.

      Many people in this country probably haven’t heard her speak. And might have had notions about her being a “weak woman”.

      I hope she changed their minds.

      Also, questions that Donald Trump was too scared to definitively answer:

      – Why did he stop the border bill from going through?

      – Would he veto a federal abortion ban?

      – Would Ukraine winning the war with Russia be the best thing for America?

    15. Parallel-Quality on

      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.

    19. Snuffaluffakuss on

      Shameful ass coverage and you let that fuck gain ground when he was getting slaughtered, ABC.

    24. Dangerous-Guard-8014 on

      She had three and a half years? Dude she was VP…YOU WERE PRESIDENT FOR FOUR YEARS. WHAT DID YOU DO?

    25. ieatalphabets on

      Lefties are still going to vote left, Righties are still going to vote right. But the Independents? He offered us nothing, she offered us vision and competence. That goes a long way.

    27. iambgriffs on

      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.

    28. Citizen_Lunkhead on

      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.

    30. Saint_Skeeter on

      Kamala – I care about you all.

      Trump – I got involved with the Taliban.

      My sincerest thoughts and prayers to those still undecided.

    31. heardworld on

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

    32. linknewtab on

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

      The quote of the debate.

    34. HylianTomOnReddit on

      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.

    35. I_really_enjoy_beer on

      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.