Former President Donald J. Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris faced off in a debate on Tuesday night in what at times appeared to be a three-against-one tag-team swiping at the GOP nominee.
The highly anticipated event saw Trump land a series of blows against the smug, smirking establishment candidate but the second presidential debate was every bit as unfairly moderated as many critics warned it would be.
ABC News moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis repeatedly interrupted Trump with their “fact checks” while failing to apply the same standards to Harris whose performance was chock full of lies, including the regime’s bread and butter hoax, the Charlottesville very fine people “on both sides” lie.
Despite the tilted playing field, Trump got in some good shots on the “Marxist” Democrat, including using her own line against her when he brought up her support of defunding the police and she could be seen saying something although at that point, the mic was muted.
TRUMP: “I’m talking now. If you don’t mind. Please. Does that sound familiar?” pic.twitter.com/gQuTmro6zI
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) September 11, 2024
“I’m talking now. If you don’t mind. Please,” Trump said, a line she made famous when using it during her debate against former Vice President Mike Pence.
Trump also hit the target when he reminded Harris, her ABC News friends, and a national television audience that he nearly had his head blown off as a result of Democrats and their media mouthpieces inciting violence against him with their incendiary rhetoric.
“I probably took a bullet to the head because of the things that they say about me. They talk about democracy. I’m a threat to democracy. They’re the threat to democracy,” Trump said.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: I probably took a bullet to the head because of the things that they say about me. They say I’m a threat to democracy — THEY’RE the threat to democracy! pic.twitter.com/QHhj3rL4Hd
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) September 11, 2024
Trump also quipped that Harris has stolen so many of his policies that he was going to send her a MAGA hat.
Trump on Kamala: I was gonna send her a MAGA hat!
Kamala stole Trump’s border wall policy and no tax on tips policy
pic.twitter.com/LEyLB0Jaci— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) September 11, 2024
Years of anti-Trump demagoguery from the deposed Joe Biden, Harris, and other Democrats likening him to Hitler culminated in Trump being narrowly missed by a would-be assassin’s bullet at a July rally amid a series of inexplicable Secret Service failures.
Muir and Davis showed that Trump was absolutely correct when he called out ABC News for their bias against him, and even though “Liddle George Slopadopolus” didn’t get the call, the two leftist anchors more than made up for his absence, and it was noticeable.
This debate is three vs one — the ABC moderators clearly shilling for Kamala Harris. https://t.co/DbpaSLIUi0
— Tulsi Gabbard (@TulsiGabbard) September 11, 2024
These moderators are a disgraceful failure and this is one of the most biased, unfair debates I have ever seen. Shame on you @ABC
— Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) September 11, 2024
She completely lied about Charlottesville and the ABC moderators did absolutely nothingpic.twitter.com/owPOsrMmhU
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) September 11, 2024
“Fine people on both sides” lie. “Stand back and stand by” lie. “Bloodbath” lie. Where are the ABC moderators fact-checking? Or are their heads too far up Kamala Harris’ ass to speak at this point?
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) September 11, 2024
Trump is having to fight all three other people on stage. I’ve never seen such an unfair debate. This is worse than Candy Crowley “correcting” Romney — and then admitting she was wrong … hours after the debate.
— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) September 11, 2024
These are elite Manhattan debate questions – the American people are suffering and can’t pay for groceries and deserve answers how it will get better.
I don’t know what the hell this is but these moderators are doing the American people a grave disservice.#Debate2024
— Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) September 11, 2024
I am so sad for this country. Americans are struggling. Dangerous people are entering the country illegally. Freedom of speech is under attack.
And ABC delivered the worst debate “moderators” I’ve seen since Candy Crowley of CNN.
— Michele Tafoya (@Michele_Tafoya) September 11, 2024
Harris now wants another debate, something that Trump isn’t ready to commit to, telling Fox News host Sean Hannity that he’d have to think about it, but suggested that he would only agree if it was conducted by unbiased moderators on a different network.
“She wants it because she lost,” Trump said.
Hannity: “She wants a second debate.”
President Trump: “She wants it because she lost.” pic.twitter.com/aEfKBsNQpK
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) September 11, 2024
“I don’t know I have to think about it,” Trump said when told by Hannity that the Harris campaign already wants a rematch.
“But if you won the debate, I sort of think maybe I shouldn’t do it. Why should I do another debate?” Trump asked. “That’s, you know, what happens when you’re a prizefighter and you lose, you immediately want a new fight.”
He said “Maybe if it was on a fair network” he would agree, pointing out that it was “three against one” on Disney-ABC.
Whether the debate will convince fence sitters that the best choice is to continue with four more years of the ruination of the Biden-Harris policies remains to be seen, but what went down in Philly isn’t likely to sway those who have already made up their minds.
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