What Went Wrong Last Night
Let's be honest, last night's debate was a disaster. Donald Trump seemed aloof, defensive, underprepared, and easily distracted. He jumped into every trap that was set for him by Harris and the moderators while blatantly missing countless opportunities to sell his economic message and tie Kamala Harris to the failings of this White House.
Some people woke up this morning claiming the debate felt like it was 3 against 1 with both moderators working against Trump. Technically, it was 4 against 1 because the same people who fictionalized stories of cat-eating Haitians tricked the former President into repeating their lie on stage.
While Donald Trump had a bad debate against blatantly biased moderators, does it really matter? In 2016, Donald Trump handily lost every single debate against Hillary Clinton according to snap polling but went on to win the general election.
If this is going to be a vibes election, Donald Trump will lose. But if the Trump campaign can make this race about policy, there is a significant portion of undecided Americans who tuned in last night to hear policy specifics from Kamala Harris and learned nothing. Last night was bad, but this race is far from over.
Agree and disagree. Trump didn’t have his best night but it appears that undecideds were not moved by Harris at all. Harris lied at least 20 times and wasn’t called out one time. The elite are saying that’s a loser line, but I’ll place money on the fact the mainstream media is hated more today than yesterday.
At the risk of beating the dead horse, Senator Vance had a great exchange about Springfield on CNN. As quoted by Red State, he wrapped up a factual discussion on the issue with
“And I think it's interesting Kaitlan, that the media didn't care about the carnage wrought by these policies until we turned it into a meme about cats and that speaks to the media's failure to care about what's going on in these communities. If we have to meme about it to get the media to care, we're going to keep on doing it because the media could, should care about what's going on.”
Taken that way, this might not be a bad strategy.