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Donald Trump should be very worried going up against Kamala Harris in a debate (www.lgbtqnation.com)
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What a difference two-and-a-half months make.

It was just late June when Donald Trump and Joe Biden faced off in the first presidential debate of the season. As it turns out, thanks to his disastrous performance, it was Biden’s last presidential debate ever.

Tomorrow is the second presidential debate, but it might as well be the first. Kamala Harris will be making her debate debut as a presidential candidate. She and Trump have never faced off before. Indeed, the two have never even met because Trump skipped the 2021 inauguration festivities after his failed coup attempt.

Debates are all about expectations and spin. The expectation for the June debate was that Biden would show Trump up for the blowhard he is, which is why the Biden campaign pushed for a debate so early in the election cycle. We all know how that worked out.

However, it’s hard to imagine that Harris isn’t in a much better position going into the debate than Trump is. For one thing, Trump can’t stop himself from vomiting his inner dialogue, which rightly disgusts a lot of voters. He digresses, he rambles, he struggles to put a coherent thought together. Biden’s poor performance was the spectacle at the last debate. This time out Trump won’t have that foil.

At the same time, Harris is used to arguing her case. After all, she was a prosecutor, where her job was to convince a jury. She knows how to lay out her argument and draw people into it. She knows that this time the voting public is her jury, and she will argue accordingly.

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[–] vegeta@lemmy.world 109 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (15 children)

His cult will claim he won the debate, even if he shits his pants and starts talking like a baby.

[–] satanmat@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

This is the point that non trump people don’t grok.

His supporters don’t care.

His Multists (totally stealing that from now on) won’t be swayed by data or any facts. They won’t That 1/3 of the population would vote for him even if they were being rounded up for the camps.

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