The panelists who commented on the presidential debate on LCN on Tuesday evening were unanimous: Kamala Harris won this first face-to-face against Donald Trump.
“Trump has never been beaten up like that in his entire life,” political analyst Luc Lavoie exclaimed after the debate. “In my entire career, I have never seen a political show like that.”
“First, I thought she was really bad in her interview with Dana Bash (on CNN),” he adds. “She seemed almost mediocre to me. Well, now I’ve discovered that she’s extraordinary. I’m not saying she’s going to be the best president or even that she’s going to be elected president, but she’s quick on her feet. Her body language said as much as her words.”
In fact, TVA Nouvelles contributor Stéphan Bureau particularly noticed the facial expressions of the two candidates at the end of the debate.
“Just from the images, the kind of dejection at the end, in the last minutes of the debate, Mr. Trump was hot – obviously it’s not forbidden to be hot – but the facial language between Ms. Harris and Mr. Trump, just on that, it was quite overwhelming,” he notes.
And columnist Yasmine Abdelfadel agrees with the two analysts who preceded her: Kamala Harris won “hands down.”
“She did what we didn’t think she was capable of doing, which was a massive destruction of Donald Trump,” she said. “It was a volley of slaps, one after another, and you could see that Donald Trump was realizing it and he was losing his patience.”
“It’s incomparable,” continues journalist Emmanuelle Latraverse. “She managed to do what her predecessors, in this kind of situation, (didn’t manage to do): bring the debate where she wanted it to go.”
Although the analyst points out that Kamala Harris’ first minutes were “muddy,” Mme Latraverse points out that the Democratic candidate “found her rhythm as soon as we started talking about abortion.”
