For Harris and Trump, facial expressions did much of the talking...

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

69% : When the candidates did have the floor, Trump and Harris both gesticulated with their hands, mannerisms that are by now familiar to Americans who've spent a lot of time watching them.
49% : With their microphones muted unless it was their turn to speak, according to the debate rules, body language took on outsized importance for Harris and TrumpHarris in particular leaned into the nonverbal communication, keenly aware that her every reaction was being broadcast to the world, "speaking" to the audience even while Trump ostensibly had the floor.
25% : Trump sometimes scowled, sometimes smiled curtly.
21% : At various points she looked amused or befuddled by whatever Trump was saying, as if w ordlessly saying he was lying.

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