During Tuesday's debate, Harris was in command; Trump was incoherent
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🗓️ 11 September 2024
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| 0:00.0 | Tuesday night at 9 o'clock, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris strode onto the debate stage at the National Constitution |
| 0:07.4 | Center in Philadelphia. |
| 0:08.8 | Kamala Harris. |
| 0:09.8 | It's up good debate. |
| 0:11.8 | You see, have fun. Thank you. |
| 0:13.0 | In something of the ultimate power move, Harris walked over to Trump and held out her hand to shake. |
| 0:19.3 | Some observers noted Trump seemed reluctant or caught off guard by the act of civility. |
| 0:25.0 | Then it was off to the races and it became clear what Harris's strategy was |
| 0:30.4 | beat the former president and he latched on hookline and sinker. |
| 0:34.4 | Is that people start leaving his rallies early out of exhaustion and boredom. |
| 0:39.4 | She said people start leaving people don't go to her rallies there's no reason to go and the people that |
| 0:44.7 | do go she's busing him in and paying them to be there using precious debate time to |
| 0:49.4 | talk about crowd size was not the only time that Trump went off message. |
| 0:53.2 | In Springfield, they're eating the dogs, the people that came in, they're eating the cats, |
| 0:59.7 | they're eating, they're eating the pets of the people that live there. |
| 1:05.0 | Trump is talking there about a debunked conspiracy theory about Haitian migrants eating pets in an Ohio town. During these moments when Trump veered off to |
| 1:16.2 | extremes or repeated falsehoods, the Vice President lifted her eyebrows as if to say |
| 1:21.6 | really or laughed or propped her hand on her chin with a |
| 1:25.9 | smirk or side as if in disbelief as one CNN commentator put it. |
| 1:30.7 | She was aware as she must have been as a prosecutor that the second you |
| 1:34.2 | were inside of a courtroom the jury is looking at everything you're doing. |
| 1:37.8 | Muted microphones doesn't matter. And then there were the times when Trump seemed to |
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