Will Kamala Harris’s Debate Win Be Enough to Move the Needle?
The Political Scene | The New Yorker
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🗓️ 11 September 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Kamala Harris successfully prosecuted a case against Donald Trump on issues ranging from abortion to the January 6th insurrection at last night’s debate in Philadelphia. How will that fare with voters against Trump’s “fan service” recitation of Internet conspiracies? Tyler Foggatt sits down with the New Yorker staff writers Clare Malone and Vinson Cunningham to examine each candidate’s performance, along with a surprise Taylor Swift endorsement for Harris, and what it means with less than two months until Election Day.
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| 0:37.8 | from the New Yorker. The first and likely only debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former |
| 0:49.6 | President Donald Trump was a fierce showdown. |
| 0:52.4 | Now she wants to do transgender operations on |
| 0:56.0 | illegal aliens that are in prison. Not everybody got handed, 400 million dollars |
| 1:01.3 | on a silver platter and then filed bankruptcy six times? |
| 1:04.4 | They're eating the dogs, the people that came in, they're eating the cats, |
| 1:08.6 | they're eating, they're eating the pets of the people that live there and this is what's happening in our country. |
| 1:16.8 | Donald Trump left us the worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War. |
| 1:25.0 | And now I'm here with New Yorker staff writers Claire Malone and Vincent Cunningham. |
| 1:29.3 | We went straight from live blogging the debate to the studio to unpack whether Harris's strong performance |
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