The 3 Realities From the Trump-Harris Debate

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : "More broadly, Harris anticipated that Trump would resort to "Donald's Greatest Hits."
55% : She all but invited Trump to profess a remarkable neutrality between Russia and Ukraine, and then argued that with Trump in power, Putin would be sitting in Kyiv and then staring down Poland -- and that there just so happens to be hundreds of thousands of Polish Americans in Pennsylvania.
47% : She certainly wasn't afraid of being seen as smaller than Trump.
42% : First, Harris did herself a world of good; second, Trump confirmed the most serious doubts of anyone not firmly in his corner.
42% : Trump looked doggedly ahead -- something the occasional two-shots made clear.
41% : But no, Trump isn't leaving the GOP ticket; his control over the party is complete, and he surely has a strong chance to return to the White House even after a dismal debate.
40% : But the third conclusion is yet to be determined: If Trump does not suffer any political damage from this debate, it means he is even more invulnerable to the traditional ebb and flow of politics than we have imagined.
34% : Not only did Trump take the bait, he brought a couple of his own, which he tripped over again and again.
34% : but we're about to find out how baked in sentiment really is about Trump, and whether Harris needs to find some other way to win over the few remaining swing voters in a polarized electorate.
32% : She trumped Trump at the outset of the debate by going over to him and shaking hands.
30% : Harris knew exactly what she was looking for when she taunted Trump about crowds leaving his rallies "out of boredom and exhaustion."
18% : The campaign armed Harris with a series of trip wires hoping that Trump would be unable to resist setting them off.
18% : The fact that Trump had more speaking time will not be a source of complaint from the Harris camp; they'd likely have ceded him a lot more minutes.
11% : But even the Harris team could not have expected that Trump would pivot immediately back to the "millions and millions" of undocumented immigrants and claims that they're "eating the dogs!
10% : It was one of a number of key differences between the debate Trump had with President Joe Biden, who often looked listless in the split screen on television.
2% : She wants to convince the country to turn the page on Trump and as soon as she said that Trump had been "fired by 81 million voters," she watched Trump dive deep into the rabbit hole of the "stolen 2020 election."

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