Trump's dour negativity contrasted with Harris's optimism about America | Robert Reich

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : She set the tone by walking over to Trump at the start of the debate to shake his hand and introduce herself.
40% : Despite a month of favorable coverage, 28% of voters in the recent New York Times/Siena College poll said they still needed to learn more about Harris, compared with only 9% who said they needed to know more about Trump.
36% : Her third challenge was to goad Trump into exposing his out-of-control self.
34% : Trump interrupted, even though his mic was supposed to be muted - which is how he managed to get nine more minutes of talk than Harris.
31% : Harris won hands down, but what matters most is whether the few voters who before the debate were uncertain about how to vote now decide to support Harris over Trump.
25% : And she drew sharp contrasts with Trump.
24% : She rattled Trump to the point where he couldn't contain his nastiness.
24% : Harris's closing statement didn't even mention Trump.
22% : Most pundits thought Hillary Clinton had won her three debates with Trump.
21% : But Trump was worse than he has ever been.
21% : On the issue of abortion, Trump claimed Democrats want to kill babies after they are born.
19% : She made Trump look and sound like the blubbering idiot he is.
18% : In fact, under Trump, America lost almost 3m jobs.
11% : Trump tried to paint Harris as the candidate of the status quo, but he failed because he came across as a messTo say that Kamala Harris nailed it in Tuesday night's debate is an understatement.
10% : Trump tried to paint Harris as the candidate of the status quo.
10% : On and on Trump went, into the dark depths of his personal malignancy - accusing her and Biden of everything Trump himself has done (such as take money from foreign governments) and everything he aims to do (such as bring down American democracy).
1% : Trump claimed that the American economy under him was better than the economy under Biden and Harris, and that under Harris the economy would be ruined.

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