Harris has to dazzle in the debate

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : The hopes that Harris would get a real bounce in the polls after the Democratic convention -- and open up a substantial lead over Trump -- were not met.
49% : In the recent poll some 28 per cent say they need to learn more about her; compared to just 9 per cent who want to learn more about Trump.
48% : Harris should take the opportunity to underline that she has lived a much less privileged life than Trump, who was born into money and privilege.
41% : This Tuesday's face-off with Trump may be her last real chance to shift the momentum of the race -- since no further debates are yet scheduled.
36% : The former Republican vice-president labelled Trump as the greatest threat to the American republic in its 248-year history.
32% : The last major poll taken before the debate suggested that Trump now has a one-point lead over Harris.
20% : Trump and the Republicans are trying hard to define Harris as a San Francisco liberal and a "DEI" candidate -- who has risen to the top because she is a Black woman, rather than on merit.
17% : Biden's debate performance was unexpectedly awful; but Trump also did unexpectedly well.
15% : In June's debate, Trump delivered the killer line that summed up Biden's shocking deterioration -- "I really don't know what he said at the end of that sentence.
11% : In keeping with her campaign's strategy to define Trump as weird -- and to come across as joyful, rather than angry -- Harris may look for an opportunity to laugh at Trump, rather than to denounce him.
8% : Hoping that Trump will self-sabotage with some horrible outburst -- or for the opportunity to deliver a quick put-down -- the Harris campaign argued for both candidates' microphones to remain open throughout the debate.

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