Suddenly, Donald Trump looked older than his age. He grimaced. He shrank. He gesticulated, short of sarcasm and oxygen. On Tuesday, September 10, during their first televised confrontation, the former president clung to his invectives like a leaky lifeline, facing the “Marxist” Kamala Harris. He kept coming back to his obsession, which serves as his program: illegal immigration. But his Democratic rival destabilized the billionaire as he has rarely been since he entered politics in 2015. To the point that after the show he felt obliged to go meet the press, to defend his performance himself. Kamala Harris, she, all confidence, said she was ready for another debate.
At the end of June, on CNN, Donald Trump had watched, almost stunned, as Joe Biden sank during their televised joust. This time, it was he who was cornered, stunned by precise blows. In a public opinion already largely divided between the two contenders, the impact of this television moment remains uncertain. It could be less than the support given in the wake of the singer Taylor Swift to the Democrat. Kamala Harris nevertheless passed an essential test: that of credibility. She managed to impose the idea that it would be necessary “turn the page” on the excesses of the Trump era, as if the Biden presidency had been a parenthesis. This is the failure of the Republican candidate: his inability to confront Kamala Harris with the weaknesses of the current administration.
Held without an audience at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the debate broadcast on ABC offered the American public a sharp contrast. Questions about Kamala Harris’s ability to hold up were allayed when she entered the set to shake hands with her opponent, who seemed hesitant. This offensive spirit never left the vice president. She looked the viewers in the eye; Donald Trump spoke to the moderators. She made an argument, detailed her « plans » successive, continued the political indictment of his opponent; frustrated, angry, Donald Trump had difficulty finishing a thought.
Illegal immigration, the Republican’s obsession
“I have concepts of plan, I am not president now”he replied, when asked about Medicare and the possibility of replacing Obamacare. His traditional staircase wit seemed to spiral downward. He was occasionally interrupted by the two anchors, David Muir and Linsey Davis. They played their roles excellently, correcting some falsehoods, such as the fact that Haitian refugees in the city of Springfield, Ohio “eat dogs”according to the billionaire. The journalists have logically attracted the acid criticism of the supporters of the former president.
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