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The Lincoln Project

388: Trump's Concepts of a Debate

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News, Government, Politics, News Commentary

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🗓️ 12 September 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Rick unravels Trump’s disastrous debate performance and Harris’ expert baiting and craft. The outcome is clear. And no, they’re not eating cats in Springfield, Ohio—thanks, fact-checkers!


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0:00.0

Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well trained, well equipped, and battlehardt.

0:06.0

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America. There is the United States of America.

0:14.0

Good night and good luck.

0:16.0

Hey folks, 54 days until election day, and the elephant in the room is that debate performance.

0:22.8

Donald Trump came to Pennsylvania last night thinking he was going to have another night like he had with Joe Biden.

0:28.3

Instead, Kamala Harris, like Beatrix kiddo in Kill Bill, took out the sword and went to work.

0:34.2

Let's get to it.

0:40.7

Tuesday night of this week is going to go down in political history in this country.

0:44.9

It's going to go down in political history because you saw one of the best debate performances

0:49.7

of our lifetimes. And I mean that by a good order of magnitude. And I also mean that as somebody

0:56.4

who has done debate prep and debate training for debates at this level, who has been in and at,

1:02.8

both as staff and as an eyewitness history, dozens of these events, both primary and national

1:09.8

debates. And I have to tell you, the world has changed.

1:15.8

Kamala Harris was the alpha female in the room last night, or Tuesday night.

1:20.8

She walked up to Donald Trump, stuck out her hand, and at that moment, the debate started to fall apart for Trump.

1:27.1

Before he had even said a word,

1:28.5

before he had even opened his sewer to lie.

1:32.4

She shook his hand with confidence, with the physicality and the presence on the stage that will go down as a visual image,

1:39.7

much like Trump lurking behind Hillary Clinton in 2016.

1:43.9

Donald Trump proceeded to get to the podium and

1:47.8

just be clown himself for the next 90 minutes. It was an embarrassing, painful example of elder

1:55.9

abuse. The staff should have this guy in a care home, not on the campaign trail. The staff should have this

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