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WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

On Debate Night, Donald Trump Loses his Cool and Lets Kamala Harris Off the Hook

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Wall Street Journal

News, Society & Culture

4.22.8K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

With jabs about his legal troubles and crowds leaving his rallies, Kamala Harris threw Donald Trump off his game during their first debate. Trump dwelled on the past and missed opportunities to expose her progressive agenda. Harris wants another debate, but does Trump? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:15.0

From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal,

0:21.0

this is Potomac Watch.

0:24.4

Kamla Harris and Donald Trump met him their first,

0:27.4

and maybe their only presidential debate on Tuesday evening.

0:31.2

We'll tell you who we think won and what it means for the election in November.

0:37.1

Welcome to Potomac Watch. I'm Paul Geego, editorial page editor, the journal Opinion Pages.

0:43.7

And I'm here with Kyle Peterson and Bill McGurn

0:46.9

to break down the debate and its consequences,

0:50.6

90 minute to debate on ABC News moderated by David Muir and Lindsay Davis.

0:56.1

Let's start with an exchange on the economy.

0:59.6

I had no inflation, virtually no inflation. They had the highest inflation perhaps in the history of our country because I've never seen a worse period of time.

1:08.0

People can't go out of by cereal or bacon or eggs or anything else.

1:12.0

The people of our country are... or eggs or anything else.

1:12.8

The people of our country are absolutely dying

1:16.7

with what they've done.

1:17.8

They've destroyed the economy.

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