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The Guardian’s Hugo Lowell New — some intel from Trumpworld: Trump has taken debate prep for tonight unusually seriously and done the most of any of his prior debates, aides say, suggesting he knows the high stakes for his own campaign. BUT the prep has been mainly w Tulsi Gabbard and Rep. Matt Gaetz.
And Laura Loomer on the plane up. Looks like Team Crazy ran debate prep.
I’m so glad abortion came in early, she clobbered him on that. A focus group pollster I follow wrote on X: “Forty point difference with undecided voters on their abortion answers. Widest gap I’ve ever seen in debate dials.”
Right Wingers know he’s losing, going after each other. Erick Erickson is pissed, wrote this to Charlie Kirk: YOU STUPID MF’ers JUST GOT TRUMP TO REPEAT YOUR LIE ABOUT THE PETS. CONGRATS ON SETTING THE NEWS STORIES TOMORROW BY LYING SO TRUMP PICKS IT UP AND SAYS STUPID SHIT.
tRUMPsky took out ads wanting to reinstate the death penalty for those five men who were finally found innocent, and he’s still saying they’re guilty. Lawsuit? Does Hunter have a lawsuit against him, too?
She baited him in the first 20 minutes with the comment on his rallies, and he fell for it . . . and then went unhinged for the rest of the night, starting with the dogs and cats. Insane.
Shaky start, Kam came through in the clutch, nice job, Madam Vice President 🫡 🇺🇸
i also had a shaky start because of panic about him getting away with lying but Muir did as good a job as i’ve heard in realtime holding him accountable 🫡 🎥
The resident MAGAt conceded that she won the debate. Doubtful it’ll change their vote, though.
A lot of things were lost on them, like McCain saving ACA with his tie-breaking vote…but the thing about eating pets made them question Adolf’s sanity.
Mike Murphy @murphymike Trump ad libbing his close too. No prep; just a case study of an out of control ego maniac. Incoherent. Insecure. Imbecilic. Trump actively lost this debate. Big.
Oh, jeez. The spokesperson from Gilead is yakking. JD, we do know what she’d do on the border. She’d sign the bill Adolf stopped after it’s finally put up for a vote. He’s trying his darndest to do that Jedi thing where you tell someone what they heard. Not gonna work.
We have the best economy in the world. Would like to have heard that.
Ivy – I was dreading it. Think they had a worse night, though. LoL
Taylor Swift just posted she is voting for Kamala Harris! and she posted it with a pic of her holding one of her cats! and she’s leading them to registration and early voting info!!
BID, they must’ve liked what he said, it was all his greatest hits. Just maybe not the way he said it? Or that she took his words and shoved them like a pie in his face?
In the spin room tonight, California Gov. Gavin Newsom noted the icy moment at the top of the debate where Kamala Harris strode toward Trump and extended her hand, introducing herself by name. “She had the character and decency to shake his hand, and he was clearly uncomfortable…. She commanded the stage. She commanded this debate. She put him on the defense. She won it walking away. If it was a prize fight, literally they would have called it as a technical knockout in Round 2.”
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The Guardian’s Hugo Lowell
New — some intel from Trumpworld: Trump has taken debate prep for tonight unusually seriously and done the most of any of his prior debates, aides say, suggesting he knows the high stakes for his own campaign. BUT the prep has been mainly w Tulsi Gabbard and Rep. Matt Gaetz.
And Laura Loomer on the plane up. Looks like Team Crazy ran debate prep.
Live fact checking on Snopes.com
Nice catch, Jamie. Snopes fact checker update page looks promising: https://www.snopes.com/live/harris-trump-debate-live-updates/
the news anchors are so happy they’re finally getting ratings that they’re beaming
i’d venture one reason Hitler cam to power was German media portrayed him as just “then other side of the argument”, despicable complicity
Looks like Russian tools ran tRUMPsky’s debate prep.
Reince mispronouncing her name like the ugly, little MAGAt he’s become.
I hope ,la can get under Orange Adolf’s peel.
First Impressions In A Word
Harris: Assertive
Trump: Stunned
So there was a handshake
Trump is doing his Mussolini face
Yep she forced him to do it.
First Question was about her and Trump being elected in 2020.
Lying about tarriffs
They put him on lithium
Kam using her camera time with “you lie” face
He always remains calm for first 20 minutes or so
“what you’re going to hear tonight is a bunch of lies, grievances ….
He looks like he might fall asleep…
That dig got to him
why doesn’t she just cite current economic data that shows world-leading strength after a full Biden term?
I am enjoying him have to deal with someone challenging his bull shit to his face
Ha!
She’s facts. He is the same ignorant noise
No one explaining what a tariff is. Americans have no clue.
Keep laughing at him Kamala… he is definitely unhinged!
She triggered him with the China stuff. He’s already gone to “Marxist” — that only took 15 min
OMG going with murdering infants
Yep, you know he’s losing it when he whips up “execution after birth”
Take the gloves off Kamala c’mon let’s go
His resting shit face.
He’s sniffling
Student loans? He really doesn’t want to talk about abortion.
She’s a little talking-pointy, but overall strong. He sounds like a lunatic and looks like a tired, glowering, cranky old guy spewing nonsense.
Biden is a beach bum …. Who knew…
He’s a leader on fertilization. Eeeew!
Trying to bully “ I have to respond”
I love this so much! Reciting his lamest hits to his face!
And now he’s stuck on crowd size!
They’re EATING THE DOGS!!
Dining on the cats and dogs
OMG… he’s nuts!!!
SLAM DUNK!!! “Watch his rallies”. Great point and it triggered him
She can coast now. The cats, dogs stuff is a deal breaker for sane Americans
He’s going to implode before this night is over.
Thought they were muting mikes
apparently noy
i give her B- so far
trump- F as usual, frigging buffoon
The Daily Show goes to his rallies. Folks walking away from his rally on the beach. It’s like a sideshow. He’s just a curiosity.
Haha he’s listing his crimes
This is becoming elder abuse. SAD!
Love how the moderators are quickly correcting him.
wow the visual makes a huge difference, was listening until now
looks like an old coot with a bad haircut
What sturg said.
Bink, he’s an old coot with a bad haircut.
i think he let JD cut his hair
He got what he paid for
I… can’t… stop.. laughing…
The moderators need to stop his shit
They have to do more of that, Ivy.
They let him run amok there but he came off like a nut job.
David Muir > Hack Tapper
enjoy your future Newsmax gig, Tapper
They’re not stopping him
yeah i guffawed at “they want the solar, you ever see a desert? big fan of solar btw”
He is failing to make the debate about her. It’s about him, and he’s only too happy to talk about himself
When he “smiles” (upturned grimace) he looks like a serial killer.
I think she is doing well being Kamala rather than just saying nyuh un.
Amen, Craig…
They’re letting him break in with tants
Ashley Babbitt was shot while trying to break down the doors to the House.
she just said “bullshit” 💕
He’s losing it!
My maggers are right, stupid is funny.
Oooooh disgrace
Smart is funny too, she’s gotten in some good ones.
Orban? Really?
Quoting Orban.. Bring on the dictators
Runaway train of brain farts.
SLAM DUNK: “Donald Trump was fired by 81 million people”
They’re not letting her respond like they let him
He is losing his shit!
Can’t wait to see the analysis of this shit show…
Jamie, I think it was while climbing through a window she broke. Small difference. Same result.
he knows two world leaders- his master Putin and Orban
He’s lost all his shit now.
OMG… now he’s Nostradamus!
They’re pissing me off letting him rant but not Kam
Nostradumbass
He’s scaring the shit out of everyone.
fucking guy makes me dumber just listening to him
I wish they had a buzzer like Simon Cowell.
Sturg… maybe it’s the old adage of giving someone enough rope to hang himself.
The longer he talks… the more unhinged he becomes.
Mr. Ivy’s take: so far she’s said everything he wants to hear.
Rebren ………yup
I’m so glad abortion came in early, she clobbered him on that. A focus group pollster I follow wrote on X: “Forty point difference with undecided voters on their abortion answers. Widest gap I’ve ever seen in debate dials.”
We got some bingos on our cards!
He can’t answer direct question about Ukraine
Putin’s Russia invaded sovereign Ukraine unprovoked
Still running against Biden. Major butt hurt over losing the opponent he wanted to run against.
Frank Luntz @FrankLuntz
My phone and my X mentions are being flooded by Trump supporters complaining about the debate.
I think they know he’s losing.
Cut him OFF!
Who’s controlling the mics?
his vocabulary hasn’t improved since last week, guys
ooooh what she just did will take up a weeks news cycle 🤩
Yanking his chain.
holy **** he just did a mock accent
if that ain’t a meltdown, MSM…
Spewing incoherently.
Nothing about race-dividing on my bingo card, but she’s hitting him where it hurts.
She’s killing him on the race issue.
OH MY GOD, he’s still calling the Exonerated Five guilty!
Ivy – Yeah, but does it count if he isn’t the one who said, “Hannibal Lector.”
He didn’t save ACA—McCain did
Right Wingers know he’s losing, going after each other. Erick Erickson is pissed, wrote this to Charlie Kirk: YOU STUPID MF’ers JUST GOT TRUMP TO REPEAT YOUR LIE ABOUT THE PETS. CONGRATS ON SETTING THE NEWS STORIES TOMORROW BY LYING SO TRUMP PICKS IT UP AND SAYS STUPID SHIT.
They’re not controlling him at this point. We’ll have to see how well his diarrhea of the mouth helps or hurts him.
“I have concepts of a plan” Too funny
BID, I counted it.
Kamala sounds presidential…. Trump sounds like a drunk uncle at Thanksgiving. You just want him to leave.
Bad as he is, there’s nothing he can say or do that will make his supporters turn on him.
tRUMPsky took out ads wanting to reinstate the death penalty for those five men who were finally found innocent, and he’s still saying they’re guilty. Lawsuit? Does Hunter have a lawsuit against him, too?
Remee, hammer, nail, head. Bravo.
She baited him in the first 20 minutes with the comment on his rallies, and he fell for it . . . and then went unhinged for the rest of the night, starting with the dogs and cats. Insane.
i didn’t like David Muir before, respect him now
As a boy of 14, my old man…
“Concepts of a plan”Solid gold.
She also got the most zingers
He still needs a remedial civics lesson.
IvyGreen, you are correct, his supporters will never abandon him BUT they weren’t enough last time and they won’t be again.
headlines also better say “old and tired”
Shaky start, Kam came through in the clutch, nice job, Madam Vice President 🫡 🇺🇸
i also had a shaky start because of panic about him getting away with lying but Muir did as good a job as i’ve heard in realtime holding him accountable 🫡 🎥
Orange Adolf is gloom, doom and threats.
Kamala Harris is solutions and the future.
The replays tomorrow should be fun. Good night.
The resident MAGAt conceded that she won the debate. Doubtful it’ll change their vote, though.
A lot of things were lost on them, like McCain saving ACA with his tie-breaking vote…but the thing about eating pets made them question Adolf’s sanity.
Craig, his supporters are dying off and not being replaced, but their views are receiving outsized coverage by the media.
Mike Murphy @murphymike
Trump ad libbing his close too. No prep; just a case study of an out of control ego maniac. Incoherent. Insecure. Imbecilic. Trump actively lost this debate. Big.
Chris Wallace: “Kamala Harris pitched a shutout”
Sleep well, y’all, if only for this night, you should 🙂 🇺🇸
BID, you watched it with a maga? That must’ve been painful.
Oh, jeez. The spokesperson from Gilead is yakking. JD, we do know what she’d do on the border. She’d sign the bill Adolf stopped after it’s finally put up for a vote. He’s trying his darndest to do that Jedi thing where you tell someone what they heard. Not gonna work.
We have the best economy in the world. Would like to have heard that.
Ivy – I was dreading it. Think they had a worse night, though. LoL
I doubt he’ll submit to another debate. He was routed.
His botox and bronzers couldn’t cover his real flaws.
a masterstroke when she decided not to call him an invective… “what was she going to say??”
Don’t ever answer, like Carly Simon
Remember Putin lies too. He doesn’t really want Kamala to win.
We don’t see that she made any mistake.
Boom. Taylor Swift endorses Harris tonight
Taylor Swift comes out!
Taylor Swift just posted she is voting for Kamala Harris! and she posted it with a pic of her holding one of her cats! and she’s leading them to registration and early voting info!!
So, what was the weird, AI pic of cats, ducks, and Dumbass?
What worries me is that his MAGAts in Ohio will go out and start kidnapping pets.
Old and in the way.
not in the way because he’s old, just in the way
an obstruction that must be coughed up
Hack to the Future
AI makes him look all the more fake. A match made in heaven.
She beat him like the neighbor’s mule.
He folded like a cardboard suitcase.
He got beat by a woman. A woman of color. That’s sweet.
He’s shown that he was right to be scared.
BID, they must’ve liked what he said, it was all his greatest hits. Just maybe not the way he said it? Or that she took his words and shoved them like a pie in his face?
Well said.
i think i might have to watch the replay now
replay liveblog, let’s go, who’s with me???
Hit play…………………………….NOW
Taylor Swift. Game, set, match (tonight, anyway).
Dumbass, give me a break.
Same group on who they expected to win the debate
Harris: 50
Trump: 50
Anybody still undecided after tonight is not fit or qualified to vote.
Whoa she just shook his hand
ok, liveblogging 3 hours after something happened is the best joke i can make, and the last for the night since it’s Sep. 11
✌️ 🙏 🇺🇸
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