‘He Loses Because of This Debate Performance’
Across the board, Trump campaign is being left for dead
It’s not just the funnymen of late-night TV who continue to mock the performance by Donald Trump in Tuesday’s debate against Vice President Kamala Harris.
The Republican is being skewered across the board in the media.
Worse than that: Trump’s run for president this year is already being declared dead and gone.
Harris and Trump faced off for a nationally televised debate in which the Democrat is widely seen as having dominated a scowling former president who was obsessed with his own grievances and bizarre conspiracy theories.
“I've gotta say, we’re still buzzing after the Lincoln-Dumbass debate last night. Couldn’t have gone much better than did for Kamala Harris,” quipped late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel. “She baited him masterfully. I don’t think I’ve ever seen master-baiting like that on television.
“Trump was either — he was either ball in a stack or staring straight ahead, squinting with a sad, mad face. He had the same look on his face said he has when McDonald’s won’t make him a McGriddle after 10:30 am,” Kimmel joked. “More than 67 million Americans watched the debate on television last night, and of that 67 million, the only one who seems to think Trump did a good job is Donald Trump.”
Particularly egregious was Trump’s false and unhinged insistence that immigrants were eating their neighbors’ pets.
“That is incredibly shocking. And then I couldn't help but think of ALF,” said Olivia Troye, a Republican one-time advisor to former vice president Mike Pence, referring to the ’80s sitcom about an alien who liked to eat cats.
Troye has become a fierce critic of Trump and spoke in support of Harris at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
“I thought I was watching ALF when he was talking about eating cats. It’s like: that is where we are in the Republican Party right now. That is where we are. How embarrassing for my party, right? I mean, just shocking,” she said.
Most public opinion polls gave Harris a wide edge in who won the debate.
Republican pollster Frank Luntz predicted that this debate performance costs Trump the election.
“I think more accurately is that Donald Trump lost. And this is not the worst debate performance I’ve seen in my career, but it’s very close to it,” he said. “The conversations about people eating dogs and cats, calling the leader of Hungary one of the greatest world leaders, repeatedly missing the opportunity to focus on inflation and affordability, and the complete inability to present his point of view without completely tearing into her, into Joe Biden, into whomever was in his sights. It was a pretty negative performance, pretty pessimistic, cynical, contemptuous.
“And I think that this will cost him, yes. I’m trying to decide if I want to go on record, and the answer is yes. I think that he loses because of this debate performance,” he added.
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