Trump has been on the defensive since half-way through the abortion exchange
Muir, for the third time, sides with Harris in a fact check.
Trump actually succeeds, as best he can, in parrying the criticisms of him by people who worked for him by arguing that Biden & Harris go to the opposite extreme: never fire anybody so nobody writes books criticizing you.
Trump’s record of falling out with people he hires is a real vulnerability, and it should be. But he notes that they’ve had the opposite issue.
So many better ways Trump could be making his points on immigration
Donald Trump has done nothing to capitalize on the fact that one-third of voters nationally (more in the swing states) feel like they don’t know enough about Harris. He is not defining her. He’s taking her bait, which is designed to get him to focus on himself.
Trump always good on firing people.
We covered the wholly unfounded claims that Haitian immigrants ere “eating dogs” here earlier today: https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/god-trump-save-the-cats/.
It is, however, beyond stupid for Trump to go there on the nonsense viral crap about Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, eating cats and dogs.
Imagine telling someone in 2005 that in 2024, the Democratic nominee would bring up in the presidential debate, as a positive thing, an endorsement from Dick Cheney. And the Republican nominee is Donald Trump.
Instead, of hitting back hard on the Lankford point, Trump enters pets-eating morass