Only yesterday, Democrats were crossing their fingers in pre-debate interviews with National Review in hopes that their nominee wouldn’t botch one of her only unscripted prime-time events as a candidate this close to Election Day. As Representative Jim McGovern (D., Mass.) put it in dramatic terms a few hours before Vice President Kamala Harris took the stage: “She needs to win. That’s the bottom line.”
The same Democrats who spent the hours leading up to ABC’s 9 p.m. debate glued to their television screens breathed a sigh of relief the moment Harris walked onstage. In their view, she immediately took command of the room by taking the initiative to approach Trump, shake his hand, and introduce herself by name. The next 90 minutes saw a well-prepared, if nervous, Harris take on a rambling, emotional Trump. Harris at times sounded robotic in repeating practiced remarks about her policy plans and attacks against her opponent, while Trump veered off on conspiratorial rants and went viral for answering a question about his plans to replace Obamacare by saying he has “concepts of a plan.”
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