After the first debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, the U.S. presidential race remains tight, but new polling from Leger suggests that it would have been a Trump blowout if President Joe Biden hadn’t bowed out of the race.
Election 2024
Comer Slams FBI for Withholding Information on Tim Walz’s China Ties
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R., Ky.) said Thursday the FBI is withholding the information he requested about Minnesota governor Tim Walz’s trips to China and whether he interacted with Chinese Communist Party affiliates.
The Media As Stenographers for the Ruling Class
To most observers, even on the political Right, it was hard to avoid the conclusion that Donald Trump lost the debate with Kamala Harris. Trump was unfocused, blustery, and unprepared, leaving many golden opportunities to go after the vice president unexploited. This was entirely Trump’s fault, and there’s no point in pretending otherwise. His debate loss is mostly his fault.
Mostly. It is also true, however, that Trump was put at a disadvantage by the ABC News moderators, who repeatedly intervened to “fact-check” Trump’s statements, but let Harris pass unharassed. Moreover, their questions were sometimes bad jokes. For example, race is a major issue in American politics and culture, and Kamala Harris, who is black, has joined just about every major far-left racialist cause. In 2020, she even promoted a fund to bail out leftists jailed in Minneapolis for race rioting. The Biden-Harris administration has gone all-in on the increasingly unpopular DEI (diversity, equity, inclusion) campaigns.
Donald Trump rules out a debate rematch with Kamala Harris for 2024 election
Donald Trump has confirmed there will not be a debate rematch with Kamala Harris in a lengthy Truth Social post after 48 hours of speculation.
After publicly tamping down calls for another debate with the vice president, Trump delivered an unambiguous rejection of the idea Thursday – saying there ‘will be no third debate.’
Trump made the declarative statement in all-caps on his site, hours after a new Reuters/Ipsos poll showed a majority of registered voters concluded Harris won the debate.
Gutfeld: where have I seen this before? Libs of TikTok. @libsoftiktok pic.twitter.com/T9tHq7Mmzf
— Karli Bonne’ (@KarluskaP) September 12, 2024
The Debate Was Fixed
Of course I am disappointed that Trump did not score another knockout. Expectations for Harris were low. Trump came in as the guy who just had knocked out the last guy.
In many ways, really, it was a good debate. It really was — in many ways. They got to talk. Trump did not have a crowd to play to, so he remained serious throughout the 90 minutes, without the showmanship and off-topic stories. The mikes were shut off while the other person spoke, so he could not interrupt her. That was great because it is terrible graphics to see a tall, strong, white man interrupting a weak, small, colored (black, Indian) woman. If anything, it was she who interrupted him — twice — and, as I had hoped, he responded with: “Excuse me, I am speaking.”
Widespread problems with U.S. mail system could disrupt voting, election officials warn
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — State and local election officials from across the country on Wednesday warned that problems with the nation’s mail delivery system threaten to disenfranchise voters in the upcoming presidential election, telling the head of the U.S. Postal Service that it hasn’t fixed persistent deficiencies.
Telegraphing their plans? h/t patthedog
Who Rigged the Debate for Kamala? Her Best Friend and Her Sorority Sister
This is no effort to alleviate Donald J. Trump, who has been involved in the most debates this side of Abraham Lincoln, of his responsibility for his less-than-great performance on September 10, but to explain the forces working against him. These forces include best friends, sorority sisters, and Hollywood.
Why Trump Is More Likely to Win Than Not
Terminally online political geeks like me (and probably you) were mostly frustrated by the debate and fear it may help Kamala Harris and hurt Donald Trump.
I don’t know if you agree with me on this, but by most measures, Trump blew the debate, and Harris greatly overperformed. On points, she won because she got Trump distracted and lured him into defending himself on totally irrelevant issues such as the crowd size at his rallies.
The debate about the debate.
Debate winner: CNN’s Candy Crowley. In 2012, she — the moderator — interjected herself into a Romney-Obama debate to fact-check Mitt Romney with a lie. But unlike ABC’s crack moderators on Tuesday night, at least she only did it once.
I’m exhausted from fact-checking ABC’s fact-checkers, so I’m just going to tell you about a brilliant experiment that pretty clearly established who won the Trump-Clinton debates in 2016.
h/t DS
Trump Debates Harris, Muir, and Davis to Stalemate
Kamala Harris crossed the stage, extended her hand to Donald Trump, and introduced herself. She won, unlike her dazed boss in June, the first 10 seconds of the presidential debate. This orchestrated civility yielded to angry squints, interruptions, shaking her head, inappropriate laughter, and face dances when her opponent spoke.
The debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump in Philadelphia broadcast on ABC News came across as a far more competitive and combative affair than June’s debate between Trump and Joe Biden.
Crowd shouts "we need you Donald" in front of Biden, Harris, Schumer pic.twitter.com/vZo2uNL6Rs
— Defiant L’s (@DefiantLs) September 11, 2024
JD Vance SCHOOLS CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on Immigration and Cat Memes
U.S. Senator and GOP vice presidential nominee JD Vance went into the post-debate spin room and exposed the media’s omissive biases when covering the effects of the border disaster in small towns like Springfield, Ohio. It took cat memes to get the media to look at the story.
21 False Claims & Hoaxes by Kamala Harris that ABC‘s Debate Moderators Did Not Fact Check
Vice President Kamala Harris issued a slew of false claims and hoaxes that ABC debate moderators did not fact check during Tuesday’s debate against former President Donald Trump.
Here are 21 false claims and hoaxes that Harris uttered on live television, in front of millions of Americans …
Australia's Sky News gives the most honest review of the Kamala/Trump debate you will ever see pic.twitter.com/Rd8fJwn0SB
— ULTRA MAGA PARTY (@MaxEvansUMP) September 11, 2024
Top 5 lies that the ABC News moderators refused to fact-check or falsely fact-checked during the debate:
1. Mandatory Firearm Buybacks:
Kamala Harris told Trump to "stop lying" about her wanting to confiscate firearms. Harris has previously stated multiple times that she wants… pic.twitter.com/6aXznDnq7O
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) September 11, 2024
Exactly https://t.co/Gy5Y68A8IN
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 11, 2024
h/t DS and patthedog
What the Heck Happened in the Trump-Harris Debate?
Kamala Harris and Donald Trump finally faced off in what will likely be their only debate, and it went more or less as expected. While this debate probably won’t change the overall trajectory of the race in a major way, it did have its key moments—and not all of them went in Trump’s favor. I predicted Trump needed to perform significantly better than he did against Joe Biden, and frankly, that didn’t happen.
BREAKING: Megyn Kelly just went on an intense rant calling out the disgusting ABC hosts for working with Kamala Harris to sink Trump and STEAL THE ELECTION
“I’m ashamed of those moderators at ABC News. They did exactly what their bosses wanted them to do. The person who runs ABC… pic.twitter.com/Xsq2Mm9Huo
— George (@BehizyTweets) September 11, 2024
President Trump ROASTS the ABC moderators for not debunking Kamala’s lies:
“They’re dishonest. ABC took a BIG hit last night—They ought to take away their license for doing that.” pic.twitter.com/C4j8NvqTwN
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) September 11, 2024
ABC News: ‘There is no evidence of migrants eating pets’
YouTuber: ‘Here’s 30 minutes of firsthand accounts of residents in Springfield Ohio where many who live there say the pets are disappearing’
ABC News: ‘Let’s talk about climate change…’
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) September 11, 2024
h/t Mauser
Governor @RonDeSantis: The moderators tried to fact-check President Trump on things that he was RIGHT on, like the late-term abortion laws in blue states. He was right about that. They NEVER fact-checked Kamala Harris. pic.twitter.com/ODRGmD6nwv
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) September 11, 2024
Weird how David Muir didn't even fact-check her with the exact thing she said to him the last time they debated! https://t.co/bLZffG3g4z
— Jack Poso (@JackPosobiec) September 11, 2024
Presidential Debate: Trump Vs. Willie Brown’s Side Piece
Start time is 9 PM.
Twitter – #Debate2024
RFK JR. TAKES DOWN BIASED ABC NEWS MODERATORS:
"Unfortunately we had moderators who are CLEARLY biased—who were constantly 'fact-checking' Donald Trump, but none of these 'WHOPPERS' that the Vice President was saying!"
"They simply SAT THERE on the sidelines!" pic.twitter.com/YUivPbhtvt
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) September 11, 2024
Trump vs Harris is just a front – America’s political parties no longer exist
When Donald Trump and Kamala Harris step into the ring this evening, America will be treated to an illusion. For the past month, we’ve been told that tonight’s showdown in Pennsylvania will be pivotal — that, finally, the nation will witness the chosen tribunes of its two parties slugging it out for the presidency.
But appearances can be misleading. Yes, there is something called the Democratic Party and something called the Republican Party. But these entities bear little resemblance to the grassroots, mass-membership party federations that existed half a century ago. Rather, today’s organisations are made up of various groups as different from each other as from those across the aisle.