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- politics@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- politics@lemmy.world
GOP lawmakers and analysts virtually unanimous that Trump was second best to Harris in first presidential debate
Donald Trumpās campaign was in damage control mode on Wednesday amid widespread dismay among supporters over aĀ presidential debate performanceĀ that sawĀ Kamala Harris, his Democratic opponent, repeatedly goad him into going wildly off-message and missing apparent opportunities to tackle her on policy.
Even with TrumpĀ insistingĀ to have won the debate āby a lotā, Republicans were virtually unanimous that Trump had come off second best in a series of exchanges that saw the vice-president deliberately bait him on his weak points while he responded with visible anger.
The Republican nominee ā who took the unusual step afterwards of visiting the media spin room, a venue normally frequented only by candidatesā surrogates ā was non-committal on Wednesday to the Harris campaignās proposal for a second debate. Despite widespread opinion to the contrary, Trump suggested she needed it because she had lost. āIād be less inclined to because we had a great night. We won the debate,ā he told Fox & Friends.
That barely holds up if you consider this argument in a vacuum. Brought into the context that Trump said he had better plan than Obamacare since 2016, your argument is utter bullshit.
And thenā¦ you say
Soā¦ you arenāt putting it in a vacuum, you are putting it in the context of something 8 years ago. (Relevancy here is a stretch)ā¦
My argumentā¦? What was my argument?
Waitā¦ You are arguing just about semantics but say stuff like arguing about points made by someone else would be waisting time? Be gone troll.