Faced with a Kamala Harris who was usually calm, smiling and forceful, Donald Trump had a bullish face, was angry and sometimes even confused.
Ms. Harris clearly won the debate. And she couldn’t have done otherwise to win the presidency.
Harris, like a brilliant court lawyer, mounted a 90-minute crescendo of the danger that Trump represented for democracy and for world peace.
Solid, she brought facts, testimonies, while Trump was contradicted, even by the journalists who asked the questions.
Harris hit Trump with some very nice blows throughout the debate. She announced early on what Trump’s strategy would be: falsehoods and insults. Throughout the debate, she reiterated that Trump was always playing the same old tape and that it was time to move on.
On abortion, Trump launched into twisted explanations, while Harris presented concrete cases, such as those of women who had been raped at age 12 and could not get an abortion in some states.
On January 6, she recalled that Trump was a criminal.
Often, Trump, rather than responding, indulged in a denunciation of mass immigration.
Harris said out loud to Trump’s face what foreign and American leaders think of Trump: They despise you and find you incompetent. Dictators love you because they can flatter you and thus manipulate you.
Trump often came back to Joe Biden. Rightly so, Harris finally told him: “You’re not campaigning against Biden, you’re campaigning against me.”
The fate of the world was decided in 90 minutes, because Harris won, because reason won against a dangerous and unstable Trump.
