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Good morning, everyone.

I'm play with co-author, Ryan Lizza.

And what's driving the day?

Today is, of course, the first debate

between Vice President Kamala Harris and Donald Trump.

And who else to help me break that down?

But my co-authors, Rachel Bade and Eugene Daniels. Hey, guys. Hey there. Hello. Thanks for doing this first time in a while on video. All right, we're recording this right after the debate, about an hour after the debate. Let's start with you, Eugene. I want you to talk about Harris. Just give us 30,000 feet how she did. And then Rachel, I want you to talk about Harris. Just give us, you know, 30,000 feet how she did.

And then Rachel, I want you to talk about Trump. Eugene, you start. This was her debate, 30,000 feet, right? Like at the end of the day, she came in and did exactly what she wanted to do. And if you look at how she walked into the debate, her, you know, I talked to some A's. They said they were, she was going to shake his hand no matter what.

He went straight behind the leg turn.

She walked over to him behind the lectern to shake his hand from the very beginning, kind of putting her stamp on the whole debate saying, this is my shit, right? And she did that over and over and again. She was able to bait him on everything from crowd sizes to Wharton School on the autonomy to even the Central Park Five.

And she had one of them in the spin room for her.

I think when you look at all of the people who have debated Donald Trump over since 2015, Republicans and Democrats,

she was probably the most adept.

She's had a lot of time to study him, but the most adept at figuring out how to piss him off

and get him off his game, right?

Yeah.

I think Harris, getting him off his game is going to be kind of like the story of this debate.

Absolutely. And better than Biden, you think? Better than Biden in the last week.

Much better.

Yeah.

Girl. You were genuinely surprised by that question.

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