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The Rachel Maddow Show

Special MSNBC coverage of the Kamala Harris-Donald Trump debate

The Rachel Maddow Show

MSNBC

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4.534K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2024

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Plus, 'She put a bully in his place': Gov. Tim Walz celebrates Kamala Harris debate performance (and Taylor Swift's endorsement)

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0:00.0

Lindsey Davis and David Muir wrapping this presidential debate between

0:06.3

former President Donald Trump and Vice President of the United States

0:09.5

Kamala Harris. You could not have two more different candidates with two more different

0:18.0

approaches to the task at hand here. I had a television executive once tell me that everything you need to

0:26.1

know about a live event on television you can tell with the sound off.

0:33.4

And if you had the sound off for this debate, which I'm sure nobody did, what you would have seen

0:37.1

was Trump looking physically hunched, angry, squinting, I never saw the whites of his eyes the entire debate. Shouting.

0:48.0

Constantly interrupting himself not just going downents, but being unable to finish a thought,

0:55.4

seeming very frustrated, very angry, very negative, and very tired. In contrast, Kamala Harris appeared to be light on her feet,

1:07.3

quite puzzled by him.

1:09.0

The two shot of him squinting and hunching and having seeming to be having physical trouble

1:15.4

squeezing the words out certainly squeezing the sentences out while she just

1:19.2

looked at him absolutely puzzled by where it was he was going I think that visual maybe as much of a

1:25.7

takeaway as anything that was said that said boy what was said

1:30.6

Trump repeatedly coming back to the same lines over and over again about world

1:36.7

crime rates being low and because and not being the explanation for America having

1:42.0

high crime rates.

1:44.5

He said strange things like all Democrats wanted Roe versus Wade overturned.

1:49.2

He said that it is legal to kill children in the United States.

1:52.8

He insisted that he saw something on television

1:55.4

about eating dogs.

1:56.6

That was one of the weirdest moments of the debate,

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