‘Trump Had A Bad Night’: Conservative Pundits Say Harris Won

Conservative pundits acknowledged on Tuesday that Vice President Kamala Harris bought the higher of former President Donald Trump in Tuesday’s presidential debate in Philadelphia, citing her success in getting below his pores and skin.

“Let’s make no mistake. Trump had a foul evening,” Fox News host Brit Hume stated. “We simply heard so most of the outdated grievances that everyone knows aren’t winners politically.”

“She was exquisitely well-prepared, she laid traps, and he chased each rabbit down each gap,” added former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R), who usually seems as a commentator on ABC Information.

“Whoever ready Donald Trump ought to be fired. He was not good tonight in any respect,” Christie stated.

Harris baited Trump by bringing up the attendance at his marketing campaign occasions, saying folks go away his rallies early out of boredom and exhaustion. She additionally bought below Trump’s pores and skin by mentioning his requires the execution of the Central Park 5, the teenagers who have been later exonerated within the 1989 rape of a jogger, calling him a weak one that is mocked by world leaders and questioning his psychological acuity.

“We’ve got the most important rallies, probably the most unbelievable within the historical past of politics,” Trump shot again at one level, veering off his message on immigration.

Trump additionally bought into bother by once more denying he misplaced the 2020 presidential election regardless of solely days earlier acknowledging he misplaced “by a whisker.” However probably the most weird second of the evening might have been Trump mentioning false reports of migrants consuming folks’s pets in Springfield, Ohio, which Republicans have seized on as a motive to crack down on migration on the U.S.-Mexico border.

“In Springfield, they’re consuming the canine, they’re consuming the cats, they’re consuming the pets of the people who reside there,” Trump stated. “The folks on tv are saying my canine was taken and used for meals.”

The remark drew a rebuke from ABC Information debate moderator David Muir, who stated there was no proof of such claims, including that Springfield’s metropolis supervisor denied any such circumstances existed.

“Trump misplaced the talk, and whining concerning the moderators doesn’t change it,” conservative radio host Erick Erickson wrote on X, previously Twitter, referring to the Trump workforce’s complaints concerning the ABC moderators. “He didn’t lose due to their habits. He misplaced due to his personal efficiency whereas his lips have been transferring, not theirs.”

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) was equally important of Trump’s efficiency. He stated afterward that the previous president’s debate workforce ought to be fired and that Trump was unprepared, calling the talk a “catastrophe,” in accordance with The Bulwark’s Tim Miller.