Source: Semafor
by David Weigel
“For most of the night, Harris executed a clear strategy. She invoked a fact from the Trump years that Democrats felt had been forgotten by voters since 2020, she said something that would set her opponent off, and then she used his familiar eruptions in response to urge voters to take the offramp on the Trump era. The effectiveness changed depending on the question. Trump repeatedly spent time rebutting her instead of landing the lines Republicans wanted to hear: Harris’s abandonment of progressive ideas from her 2020 Democratic primary campaign, a constant theme in Republican advertising, and her active participation in Biden’s unpopular presidency. Trump supporters grumbled afterwards that the moderators didn’t interrogate her enough on these topics more themselves.” (09/10/24)