Transcript: Swamp Notes -- Harris and Trump meet on the debate stage

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : You know, Trump really does consult with these people a lot.
53% : You know, if I were Trump, which is hard to imagine, admittedly, but part of me would be saying, well, hang on, you know who got me here?
52% : Trump was looking to his advisors and then suddenly you got Lewandowski showing up, Laura Loomer showing up.
51% : But actually there are constituencies in Europe that would be more aligned to Trump.
50% : Why is tax optimization more important than preserving liberal democracy?
49% : So I think Trump may have more interest in it than he's letting on.
48% : And she said, you know, I hope the people in Pennsylvania with origins in Ukraine and Poland heard what Trump said or didn't say in that debate, because, again, Pennsylvania, as we all know, the key state.
44% : Lauren FedorYes, I'm sorry to divert with anecdotes, but I, I completely agree with your point that the narrative, (inaudible) the first six months of the year and, you know, I saw this on the ground covering the primaries because believe it or not, there was a time where we weren't quite certain it was a done deal, that Trump was going to be the candidate.
43% : The second part of Robert's question was about the business community and why, despite the business community's worry about the decline in democratic norms, the need for for peaceful transition of power, why is it that the business community has these pre-Harris, putting itself behind Trump?
40% : They look to, they're probably the only forces in Europe that look to Trump.
40% : But then many business leaders back Trump anyway.
40% : And then I think the second question is, okay, let's say Trump two is different, more radical, more sort of, of a man with a plan that is anti-democratic.
39% : And he was saying to me that he's starting to get nervous about some of these Senate races and the House races, and if the Republicans further down the ballot start getting antsy that Trump, by associating with Laura Loomer or doing whatever else he's doing, is trying to hurt them, you could see a lot of fracturing, I think, in . . .
37% : Gideon RachmanI mean I think I think there is a genuine threat to democracy, but I don't think you would have to be catastrophist about it and say it's all over if Trump wins.
37% : Talk about that issue because I know you disagree with this on on whether the business community shifting towards Trump is somehow a rational decision or an irrational.
36% : And I think she, her, her presentation looking presidential and taking on Trump in that debate really could go to that that vote and win them back.
35% : But Trump was nearly killed less than a week before that convention.
33% : It's the FT readership, but it's not necessarily the person in Indiana that has already decided long ago that they were going to vote for Trump.
33% : I wonder if I'm reading too much into this and whether there is anything to be read in from global trends to the US election and whether that spells a problem for Trump, given that it does feel like the fever in some ways is breaking internationally and whether there's a whether to read into the US election in that regard.
33% : So Trump ain't so innocent on what all this means.
28% : On Ukraine, Trump could not bring himself to say, I am going just, I want Ukraine to win the war.
28% : She denies that 9/11 happened from, from, she thinks it was a false flag operation and went to Trump to 9/11 ceremony yesterday.
28% : Now, these may be issues that that many of our readers and listeners think are good things, but if you are a business executive sitting in a suite and you're seeing the Biden administration do these things, you may not like Trump and you may actually hold your nose, but you hear the White House saying these things about you and you're, you're like, it's kind of hard to vote for that guy.
27% : And it's important for anybody, as we saw with Biden's failed debate with Trump.
27% : You know, Trump has violated taboos from day one.
27% : I think earlier in our conversation, Rana brought up that in her speech at the Democratic convention, Harris called Trump an unserious person.
26% : So I guess my question to you is, given everyone's assessment that did she did incredibly well on this and Trump really did badly.
26% : First of all, is Trump two going to be different from Trump one, you know?
20% : And those who want that Trump be Trump and Laura Loomer.
19% : And it's easy to say, well, all Europeans think Trump is crazy, and how can any Americans vote for him then?
17% : Blitzer is a, is a reader who says some reports say that people agree with Trump that the US economy is in terrible shape.
16% : And so I think you could go through a very, very bumpy period where Trump had attempts to do all sorts of awful things.
13% : You know, a lot has been made of Harris coming in there with a strategy to beat Trump and that he fell for it.

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