Senior Republican says Trump's performance was the 'worst debate' ever

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

78% : Harris is a lackluster candidate but in Trump she has a formidable ally.
65% : She is a lackluster candidate but in Trump she has a formidable ally.
55% : Harris was let off the hook again and again by the moderators -- and, more importantly, by Trump.
53% : But so did Trump.
48% : But alongside Trump she came across as a woman of substance.
44% : But Trump is a big spender too.
39% : Trump just sounded petulant.
35% : At no stage did Trump seize the initiative, even on issues like the economy, immigration and crime where voters regard her as weak.
28% : Trump clearly hankers for the return of Joe Biden as his opponent.
26% : But Trump got round to neither.
25% : Unsurprisingly, ABC was less enthusiastic about calling these claims out than they were Trump's.
24% : It's hard to see how Trump can refuse.
22% : One senior Republican, not hostile to Trump, confided in me that it was the 'worst debate performance' he'd seen in a long time.
17% : Trump trotted out his usual litany of lies on everything from Ukraine to the military to NATO to the economy.
5% : But Harris had familiar lies of her own to tell, from falsehoods about what Trump had said about Charlottesville to Project 2025 (the Trump 'manifesto' that never was), to IVF treatments (he is not against), to his alleged calls for bloodshed.

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