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🗓️ 11 September 2024
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0:00.0 | September 10th, 2024. |
0:10.4 | Former President Trump has always approached debates as professional wrestling events in which the key is not to explain policies or answer questions, but rather to demonstrate dominance over your opponent. |
0:22.0 | In 2016, the Democratic nominee straight dominance over your opponent. |
0:22.8 | In 2016, the Democratic nominee, |
0:25.1 | former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, |
0:27.4 | had a hard time countering this strategy effectively |
0:30.2 | because of the many expectations |
0:32.0 | of what was appropriate behavior for a female |
0:34.2 | presidential candidate. In 2020 and then again in the June 2024 debate |
0:40.0 | Democratic candidate Joe Biden's stutter made it difficult to counter Trump's |
0:45.0 | scattershot attacks. The question for Democratic presidential nominee Vice |
0:49.8 | President Kamala Harris in tonight's presidential debate was not how to answer |
0:54.4 | policy questions but how to counter Trump's dominance displays while also |
0:59.0 | appealing to the American people. She and her team figured it out and today they played the |
1:05.2 | former president brilliantly. He took the bait and tonight he self-destructed in |
1:10.8 | a live debate on national television. |
1:15.0 | The Harris campaign began the day trolling Trump with a new campaign ad featuring the pieces of former President |
1:22.0 | Barack Obama's speech at the August |
1:24.0 | Democratic National Convention that concerned Trump. |
1:26.9 | Here's a 78-year-old billionaire, the ad cuts to a photo of Trump and a golf cart who has not stopped whining about his problems |
1:37.2 | Then a Trump then a clip of Trump shows him complaining about Harris's crowds before Obama notes Trump's weird obsession |
1:45.0 | with crowd sizes, complete with Obama's hand motions suggesting Trump sizes |
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