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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Robert Reich

Trump’s dour negativity contrasted with Harris’s optimism about America

A group of people at a watch party in California view the presidential debate on a TV.
‘Harris rattled Trump to the point where he couldn’t contain his nastiness.’ Photograph: Gabrielle Lurie/AP

To say that Kamala Harris nailed it in Tuesday night’s debate is an understatement. She knocked it out of the park. She combined civility with firmness. She made Donald Trump look and sound like the blubbering idiot he is.

This was Harris’s first presidential debate. It was Trump’s eighth – including his debates with Hillary Clinton in 2016 and Joe Biden in 2020. But Trump was worse than he has ever been. All he did was attack. His only weapon was fear. His only means were lies.

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