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Letters from an American

September 12, 2024

Letters from an American

Heather Cox Richardson

Politics, News, History

53.8K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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September 12th, 2024.

0:07.0

Today, Trump backed out of another debate with Vice President Kamala Harris.

0:15.0

He tried to spin his fear as a sign of strength, claiming that polls clearly show that I won

0:20.3

the debate, and so there was no reason to debate again but boy is that going to be a

0:25.0

hard sell first of all as journalist Ahmed Baba points out this man has never in his

0:31.8

life denied a stage with millions of viewers.

0:36.0

Trump's post-debate internal polls must be brutal.

0:40.3

Second, he hardly looks dominant as Tik-Toc is overflowing with memes making fun of his

0:46.4

They're Eating the Dogs moment, and as Vice President Harris made fun of his concepts of a plan to replace the Affordable Care Act to a

0:55.6

packed 17,000 seat stadium in Greensboro, North Carolina. Tim Miller of the

1:02.3

Bullwork wrote,

1:03.0

Impedant Trump was too intimidated to even look Kamala's direction at the debate

1:09.0

and now he wooses out of the rematch.

1:12.0

Cannot recall a more dramatic demonstration of beta weakness in a

1:16.5

campaign setting.

1:18.8

Harris posted on social media that we owe it to the voters to have another debate and reiterated that

1:24.8

sentiment to her cheering supporters in Greensboro. In a speech to about 550

1:31.1

people in Tucson, Arizona.

1:33.3

Trump insisted he had scored a monumental victory

1:37.1

in the debate, referred to Minnesota Governor Tim

1:40.2

Walls as the Vice President, slurred his words and appeared to be having trouble reading

1:45.2

off the teleprompter's.

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