An Anatomy of the Post-Debate Detritus › American Greatness
Victor Davis Hanson
15–19 minutes
After the September 10, 2024, presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, the Harris campaign became giddy.
And why not?
Pre-debate conventional wisdom had assured the country that underdog Harris would shock the nation with her endless wash/rinse/spin word salads of repeated phrases and memorized sound bites.
She supposedly would prove as shaky as Trump—the veteran of several presidential debates—would prove merciless in eviscerating her.
That did not happen. Post-debate polls of the first 24 hours showed clearly that the public felt Harris had won.
Why?
She stuck religiously to her pre-debate prep. It was not difficult to anticipate what her tripartite script would be. Joe Biden’s failed debate with Trump offered a model, along with the need to avoid Harris’s own known linguistic and cognitive liabilities:
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