Minor things got under skin of former president, who was reduced to a pitiful, angry figure over 90 minutes
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee vice president Kamala Harris clashed during a fiery TV debate. Photograph: Alex Brandon/APPhiladelphia is nothing if not a fight town and back in the analogue years, when boxing commanded a prized place at the high table of American culture, Muhammad Ali’s old phrase was the one quoted above all others: “Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee”.
The exchange encapsulated the tone of the night. Harris was cool and sometimes cold, Trump, the more seasoned debater, repeatedly forced into denials and repeatedly falling into the traps she set for him. Harris used her range of facial expressions marvelously when listening: Trump, for whatever reason, stared straight ahead whenever she spoke.
In trying to place the blame with Harris for the nightmare scenario about immigrants and crime he has repeatedly painted at his rallies, Trump at one point repeated the notorious and unfounded rumours that in Springfield, Ohio, migrants were eating local pets. “The people that came in, they’re eating the cats. They’re eating the …they’re eating the pets of the people who live there.”
“She shined, she looked incredibly presidential and she literally beats Donald Trump on every single issue in every moment of the debate,” said Anthony Scaramucci, Trump’s former communications director turned arch critic, on the floor of the Spin Room afterwards. What else would Scaramucci say? His enmity with Trump is hardly news. But it was a message repeated by jubilant Democrats.
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