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Anderson Cooper 360

Debate Night in America: Harris - Trump Post-Debate Analysis Part 1

Anderson Cooper 360

CNN

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3.73.8K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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It was a historic night in the race for the White House with a current vice president debating a former president of the United States. Our panel of political analysts review the key moments from the debate as voters decide which campaign to support.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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An historic night with a current vice president, the first ever woman and first ever person of color to be vice president, debating a former president of the United States. Before the

0:15.4

debate, Trump supporters expressed hope that the former president would stay focused

0:20.6

on issues such as in inflation and immigration and that did appear to be

0:25.6

a struggle for Donald Trump perhaps too often most notably when he invoked what

0:29.6

authorities in Springfield or Ohio are Ohio is saying is just false a debunked meme that

0:35.8

Haitian migrants are stealing and eating pets. He said that on the debate stage

0:42.4

tonight if illegal immigration is the most important He said that on the debate stage tonight.

0:43.0

If illegal immigration is the most important issue to you as a voter, he did talk about it aggressively,

0:48.5

but Vice President Harris's supporters have got to be pleased with her performance this evening which was

0:53.8

focused on an a telling voters that she cares about them and she has a plan for

0:57.8

them and over and over baiting Donald Trump into talking about crowd sizes and court cases and

1:06.2

Nancy Pelosi and Russiagate and grievance and he took the bait almost every time, if not every time, he cited fox hosts as fact checkers.

1:16.0

He invoked Hungarian strongman, Victor Orban, as a character witness.

1:19.6

It was like a four-chan post to come to life.

1:21.8

He really took her bait almost every time. If you're a fisherman,

1:26.0

as I struggle to be, you would be lucky to have your bait taken so often. Instead of focusing on Trump filling in the blanks for those

1:35.6

voters unfamiliar with her, he focused on stuff as if he was the incumbent. I'm not

1:42.0

sure Harris necessarily did enough to fill in the blanks that undecided voters might

1:45.6

have about specifics about her plans, but there's no question.

1:49.8

Democrats have to feel good tonight about the trade of Biden for Harris who showed herself to be a

1:53.9

strong candidate she delivered a strong message and yes she prosecuted the case

1:58.3

against Trump she started the debate she began the debate approaching Donald

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