09/11/2024
Kamala Harris came into last night’s debate with a plan, and it was a simple one: set as many traps for Donald Trump as possible and wait for him to walk right into them. “Again and again, it worked,” Susan B. Glasser writes. She got him ranting about the court cases against him. He doubled down on election denialism and complained about Joe Biden and bragged about how well he knows Vladimir Putin. Harris’s bet was that Trump would say a lot of crazy and unhinged stuff if she got him going. “I’ve watched every Presidential debate for the past two decades, and I can’t think of anything that ranks higher in pure stupidity than watching Trump ranting and raving to a national audience about immigrants supposedly eating people’s cats and dogs,” Glasser writes. “His line about how the Vice-President ‘wants to do transgender operations on illegal aliens that are in prison’ was pretty memorable, too. What the hell was he talking about? No one knows, which was, of course, exactly Harris’s point.” Read Glasser’s recap of the Presidential face-off: https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/uFN0nW
