On Tuesday night the former President Donald Trump and the current Vice President Kamala Harris faced off in Philadelphia for the first presidential debate since Joe Biden’s disastrous fall from grace earlier this year.
The debate, moderated by ABC, took place over 90 minutes, and saw the candidates clash on immigration, Trump’s rallies, and Afghanistan. A snap CNN poll commissioned after the debate saw 63 per cent say Harris had won, compared to 37 per cent for Trump.
Here are the key moments from the debate:
Kamala Harris goads Trump over his rallies
As the section of the debate on immigration began – arguably one of Kamala Harris’s weakest areas – the current VP abruptly changed topic to the subject of Donald Trump’s rallies. Harris suggested that voters go to Trump’s events, so they can see people leave early because they are bored. And she ended by saying, ‘the one thing you will not hear him talk about is you’.
This was the triggering moment and beginning of the end for Trump.
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