Donald Trump got to Kamala Harris’ core problem in his debate close, waving off all her promises about what she’d do in office: “Why hasn’t she done it already?”
Hard to think of a better riposte to her “We won’t go back” slogan — which aims to appeal to Americans’ desperate desire for change from the Biden policies she shares.
Harris had a pretty smooth night: She did her homework for once, including prepping lines guaranteed to get under Trump’s skin — some of which plainly did put him off-balance.
And of course she had backup from the moderators, ABC’s David Muir and Linsey Davis — who targeted far more tough questions at Trump than at Harris, and all of their “fact-checking.”
Worse: Whenever she started to babble in trying to defend her own record, they rescued her by changing the subject.
And by changing it again whenever Trump was truly on a roll.
Still: Whenever she talked about having “a plan,” it was more of what she and Joe Biden have pushed these last four years — even when it came to the border.
Offered multiple chances to say what she’d do differently than Joe, she dodged every time.
She even fell back on the same seemingly strong support for Israel to defeat Hamas, with the same caveats that “how it does so matters” — a passive-aggressive ratification of Hamas propaganda smearing the IDF’s incredible restraint, sacrificing hundreds of Israeli lives to minimize civilian casualties.
Answering a question about how she’d get a cease-fire, she went on a meandering review of the war before saying it had to end with a cease-fire that releases the hostages — without a hint of how to get one.
Hellbound and Down 