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Kamala Harris Did What She Needed to Do. She Displayed the Force of a President — and Goaded Trump Into Revealing His Inner Frothing Crackpot
In the presidential debate, Kamala Harris locked into Donald Trump's anger, reflecting it back at him and teasing out his inner crackpot.
And in the first presidential debate of 2024, Joe Biden was revealed to be such a broken branch of a candidate, weakened by age, that Trump, in his canniness, was smart enough to hold his anger (mostly) in check. She has a wonkish side, and my fear, in the opening minutes, was that she was going to come off as rather bureaucratic and neutral — as, indeed, she did on CNN, and as too many Democratic presidential candidates of the last 40 years have (Mondale, Dukakis, Gore, Kerry, Hillary). She tore through Trump’s lies, ridiculed the preposterous notion that Democrats support abortion after a baby is born, and made the human case for reproductive rights with a fervor that was wrenching and inspiring.
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