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Moustafa Bayoumi, LaTosha Brown, Ben Davis, Lloyd Green, Arwa Mahdawi, and Bhaskar Sunkara

Who won Kamala Harris and Donald Trump’s first debate? Our panel reacts

The candidates on the debate stage.
‘Trump was flailing. He threw invective and invented facts as he went along.’ Photograph: Brian Snyder/Reuters

Moustafa Bayoumi: ‘Trump was flailing’

For the entirety of this debate, Donald Trump never once uttered Kamala Harris’s name, a sign of enormous disrespect. What he did do was try to shush Harris with a “quiet, please”, silence her with an “I’m talking now. Does that sound familiar?” (an apparent reference to her famous line during the vice-presidential debate four years ago), and brazenly state that President Biden “hates her. He can’t stand her.”

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