Hello from the FT newsroom. Kamala Harris and Donald Trump went head to head in a hotly anticipated presidential debate on Tuesday night. The vice-president was the clear winner, wrote our US national editor Edward Luce. But that is no reason for her to be complacent with the polling as tight as it is — as our poll tracker shows.
It was nothing like the Biden-Trump clash back in June; Harris delivered a series of blows to a rattled Trump, before topping off the evening with an endorsement from Taylor Swift.
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2 个月You need really smart observers for things like this. It was a non-event. Interesting though, that key platforms like YT attempted to shadow ban Trump- positive videos following the debate.
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2 个月I’m not here to choose sides, and I honestly don’t care where your politics lie, I’m a bit of a hybrid, but calling this a victory is a stretch. Trump was actually at a disadvantage. Harris has had such a poor track record that any small improvement on her part, or even the slightest mistake from Trump, would make her look like the winner in comparison. It’s like the bar so low that even a 1% improvement gives the illusion of a victory. This debate was anything but a fair contest—it was a 3-on-1 setup, and that only serves to fuel the other side’s narrative. Let’s not forget, she’s been shielded from the public eye for months during the start as the VP due to a disastrous mistakes on the campaign trail and after a series of public missteps in the seat, and the one major task she was given, because the press was asking why Biden was hiding Harris after the presidency started—the border situation—is worse than before. Trump’s got his own baggage, no doubt, but to claim this was some kind of clear win just shows how shallow our political landscape has become. It’s embarrassing that these are the leaders we’re left with, and the truly qualified individuals don’t even want to touch politics because of how toxic it’s become.