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Vice President Kamala Harris definitely went into Tuesday night’s debate with former President Donald Trump with a strategy: bait him on the issues that everyone knows get under his skin.Harris arguably rattled Trump from the moment the debate began, when she walked over to his side of the stage and firmly shook his hand.Within minutes, the vice president was mocking the nonsensical things he’s been saying at his campaign rallies and suggested it’s been getting old, even for his supporters.
“People don’t leave my rallies,” he insisted. “We have the biggest rallies. The most incredible rallies in the history of politics.”Trump also said it was Harris’ rallies with waning attendance, not his, a claim that Harris responded to by throwing her head back in laughter.
Harris described her travels around the world as vice president, and shared what she said the leaders of other countries have said to her about him. The fact that Trump still can’t admit that he lost in 2020 “leads one to believe that perhaps we do not have in the candidate to my right the temperament or the ability to not be confused about facts,” Harris said as TrumpThroughout the debate, Harris referred to Trump as “weak” on various policies – a buzz word that certainly got under his skin, given his love of using that same attack on others, as well as his penchant...
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