If I were Harris, I would rather the debate did not focus on the economic record of the Trump administration, particularly before the Covid pandemic hit, as most Americans are fairly nostalgic about the job and wage growth during those years.
“It’s like four sentences. Run, Spot, run,” Trump says, mocking Harris’ policy agenda.
“She copied Biden’s plan and it’s like four sentences, like Run Spot Run.”
Trump going hard on the Boomer humor.
The lie Democrats most consistently tell with no pushback from the mainstream media is that the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act only cut taxes for the rich. If its individual provisions are not extended at the end of 2025, taxpayers with incomes below $400,000 will see a significant tax increase, which would break Harris’s campaign promise to not raise taxes on those taxpayers.
Both candidates insist their opponent has no economic plans, even as they both pick the other’s economic plan apart in their particulars.
Both Trump and Harris are under control to start. Harris opens with “Project 2025,” which Trump bats down fairly effortlessly. Harris, without her “hot mic” gambit, is leaning heavily into theatrical smirking, which — and credit to my wife here, who doesn’t care about politics but knows much about performance — predicted a debate of alternate split-screen face-mugging just by being told the terms of the debate.
Harris: Goldman Sachs prefers me. Nobel Prize winners are on my side.
Populism!
“Donald Trump has no plan for you.” Tonight is going to be a ping-pong game of sad head-shaking disagreement. Both candidates would love to uncork a “there you go again.”
Trump says he has not read the 900-page Project 2025 white paper. If you doubt this, you probably don’t know Trump.
Trump on defense re: Project 2025 produces a smile from Harris….she has him backpedaling within five minutes.
“We did a phenomenal job with the pandemic.” – Trump.