September 11th, 2024.

Today's fallout from last night's presidential debate between Democratic nominee Vice President

Kamala Harris and Republican nominee former President Donald Trump has shown Harris solidifying

her dominant position.

Trump increasingly looks as if the anger he has been displaying

is a way to hide the fear that he is losing control.

After debates, surrogates for a nominee talk to journalists in what's known as a spin room,

where they try to spin the event in favor of their candidate.

John Bowden of the independent described his time in

last night's spinroom as the strangest moments of my political career. As usual

Republican surrogates immediately attacked the moderators for fact-checking the debate.

But it was clear, Bowden wrote, that the campaign officials were panicking.

Even Fox News Channel reporters said that Trump had

performed badly and Senator Lindsey Graham, a Republican of South Carolina, called

the debate a disaster. But MAGA Republicans, whom Trump has elevated far beyond any

position they could achieve without him, were lashing out on his behalf. Republican Vice Presidential candidate J.D. Vance attacked the moderators and doubled down on the

lie that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio were eating their neighbor's pets,

despite statements from Springfield Police and the

town manager that there is no evidence for such a statement.

Anti-immigrant Trump advisor Stephen Miller melted down when Hispanic reporter Jose Maria

del Pino asked him where he got his figures saying that crime in Venezuela had

dropped dramatically. The Trump campaign had told reporters that Vance would be the top surrogate for the evening.

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