Kamala Harris Easily Defeats Donald Trump in Epic Presidential Debate

Introduction and Opening Remarks Donald Trump is so sad that he's not running against Joe Biden anymore oh it it's like really awkward it's Wednesday September 11th I'm Jane Cen and I'm Priyanka arabind and this is what a day the show that went from reeling from the debate to reeling from the Taylor Swift endorsement that we got right afterwards like immediately right afterwards I wonder was she writing it during the debate just being like all this cat talk is making me anxious yeah all the talk about the cats getting eaten and she was like I can't stand for I'm out I'm out no more on today's show Recap of the Debate: Key Moments and Highlights we are joining you late night recapping Tuesday night's debate between vice president kamla Harris and former president Donald Trump it was also apparently the first time the two had ever met and boy was it a meeting KLA Harris have a good debate to see you have fun thank you I don't know why I find it so funny that she literally introduced herself to Donald Trump but also she like walked across the stage being like okay I know and he's like he just stays there it's it's a what a moment really kick things off on a on a strange note yeah no I I I can't explain why that was weird but it was weird no and it was an intense and really at times baffling 90 minutes Trump and Harris went back and forth on the biggest issues in this election like Reproductive Rights the economy immigration and the wars in Ukraine and Gaza and they did not once talk about golf which is a very big improvement from last time around early on haris seemed to go Trump into losing his composure a bit when she encouraged people to attend one of his rallies take a listen you will see during the course of his rallies he talks about fictional characters like Hannibal Lecter he will talk about windmills cause cancer and what you will also notice is that people start leaving his rallies early out of exhaustion and Bor and I will tell you the one thing you will not hear him talk about is you you will not hear him talk about your needs your dreams and your need and your desires and I'll tell you I believe you deserve a president who actually puts you first and I pledge to you that I will people don't leave my rallies we have the biggest rallies the most incredible rallies in the history of politics that's because people want to take their country back yeah it was clearly a line designed to get under Trump's skin and it worked like I was joking online earlier that sometimes when I try to give my puppy cheese to make him go do something he'll just look at me and not take the bait um Trump is not like that oh no he was all over the gese no Trump Trump trump was in the crate Trump was ready to go and Trump after that Rally's comment he became notably more agitated and started yelling a lot more the whole night here are some of Trump's Greatest Hits if you call them that from the rest of the night there eating the dogs the people that came in they're eating the cats they're eating they're eating the pets of the people that live there Victor Orban one of the most respected men they call him a strong man he's a he's a tough person smart prime minister of Hungary they said why is the whole world blowing up three years ago it wasn't why is it blowing up he said because you need Trump back as president they were afraid of him peacefully and patriotically and nobody on the other side was killed Ashley babot was shot by an outof control police officer that should have never ever shot her and I don't care I don't care what she is I don't care I mean all I can say is I read where she was not black that she put out and I'll say that and then I read that she was black and that's okay either one was okay with me now she wants to do transgender operations on illegal aliens that are in prison okay um so for the record no one is eating pets Victor Orban is a dictator the January 6th riers were not peaceful and they were tempting to overturn an election anyway that's why they were there and Harris is always identified as a black woman by racial people we exist I I'm still trying to wrap my head around transgender operations on illegal aliens that are in prison I'm sorry little I think I got lost um the Victor orbon thing and then you know there just a l does not mean what he what he thinks it means yeah no I mean I think he thinks that like dictator like that means that they everybody does what they say and I would like that and I'm like no no no that's not good okay um yeah just a lot of a lot of the inner inner machinations of his brain on display tonight in the worst ways anyways on policy Harris also hit Trump hard about his stance on Reproductive Rights or really his lack thereof and she did not mince words about the consequences of Trump's decision to appoint Supreme Court Justices who overturn the right to an abortion I have talked with women around our country you want to talk about this is what people wanted pregnant women who want to carry a pregnancy to term suffering from a miscarriage being denied care in an emergency room because the healthc care providers are afraid they might go to jail and she's bleeding out in a car in the parking lot she didn't want that her husband didn't want that a 12 or 13-year-old Survivor of incest being forced to carry a pregnancy to term they don't want that and I pledge to you when Congress passes a bill to put back in place the protections of roie Wade as president of the United States I will proudly sign it into law and response Trump insisted he would not sign a federal abortion ban but when the moderators tried to push him about a recent comment his vice presidential pick JD Vance made that Trump would veto a federal abortion ban he seemed to backpedal but if I could just get a yes or no because your running mate J JD Vance has said that you would veto if you did come to your desk well I didn't discuss it with JD in all fairness uh JD and I I don't mind if he has a certain view but I think he was speaking for me but I really didn't got it he uh doesn't talked to JD Vance understood loud and clear cool I mean personally I understand yeah get we get it we get it totally get it for his part Trump's major strategy here was a repeat of the last debate he wanted to tie every question back to immigration and he did it on questions about the economy the ongoing Wars overseas and this one about his involvement on January 6th go down to Washington DC and let her sign a bill to close up the Border because they have the right to do it they don't need bills they have the right to do it the president of the United States you'll get them out of bed you'll wake them up at 4:00 in the afternoon you'll say come on come on down to the office let's sign a bill If he if he signs a bill that the border is closed all he has to do is say it to the border patrol who are phenomenal if they do that the border is closed those people are killing many people unlike j6 um just as a side note it's weird to refer to the January 6th protesters as j6 like they're a hot K-Pop group that's weird the j6 choir I don't know like I yeah I agree with you not into it not into it aside from the fact that we're not a dictatorship and that's not how democracy works and that's not how the Border works you can hear Trump saying they there repeatedly part of an obvious strategy to tie Harris to President Joe Biden who Trump believes is a giant failure but Harris was able to pretty successfully counter those attacks with simple lines like this well first of all it's important to remind the former president you're not running against Joe Biden you're running against me it was a drastic contrast to Trump's dark view of a country that's failing and in Decline and like the worst place ever in the history of time okay he he said the first two in the actual closing statement he did not say the last part but I'm sure he was thinking it for more Post-Debate Analysis with Tommy Vietor analysis of the debate Harris's performance and what it means for this election I spoke with pod save America's own Tommy vtor here's our conversation Tommy welcome to what day thank you great to be here what what were your initial thoughts on a debate that did not feature two people who are 900 years old uh that was really fun to watch I feel really good right now I I I try not to be overly exuberant because obviously the last debate we all watched together as a nation uh led to us uh changing nominees but I think KLA Harris was so well prepared she was able to bait Donald Trump into saying stupid things whining about his crowd size uh unloading unloading about court cases even covid I I just she had a great night so obviously Trump seemed to do all of his debate prep with like the most online people who have ever lived and I've been talking about Trump being too online since 2020 when he was going on the stump to complain about like Nelly and Bruce or don't look it up right right but it's only gotten worse so how has that impacted his ability to reach voters who have no idea what he's talking about you and I are I think obsessed with this yes like Jake Tapper went on CNN after and said some of Trump's answers were forchan posts come to life like you had to have youu yes you needed to know he just would mention Aurora in Springfield without providing any context that he was trying to make an argument about immigration I think it was the Washington Post at a focus group where they asked some people like did did that answer make sense to you and someone said I couldn't follow a word of it so what did kamla Harris do effectively let's Sude Donald Trump for right now because something I happened in the last debate was that Biden was so bad that Trump may have looked better than he actually was but what did KL Harris do well tonight I think she did a really effective job of pivoting back to being serious and substantive and being like this guy's yelling and he's calling people names here's what I want to talk about I have a plan to help small businesses I have a plan to help you buy a house etc etc like the number one thing we know that she needs to do in this entire campaign is tell people about how she will help them economically how she'll deal with inflation and help them buy a home etc etc and I think she did a lot of work on that tonight I don't think she solved the problem by any means I don't think we're going to see her suddenly beating Trump on sort of questions about who can better handle the economy but I think she spoke to a well and she attacked his record for giving huge tax cuts to the richest people in the country Trump was supposed to tie Biden to kamla Harris and basically say they're both failures now it was super weird when Trump decided actually Biden hates kamla Harris that was that was a weird moment but how do you think she did of being able to say hey I'm proud of my record but also I am not Joe Biden what's so funny for all like the hand ringing about this she did it so simply she said I'm not Joe Biden I'm not Donald Trump I'm someone else I'm a new generation and that was so effective but also Donald Trump is so sad that he's not running against Joe Biden anymore oh it it's like really awkward he attacked him over and over again and like it was like the kind of Maga Insider stuff you were talking about he was talking about the Moscow mayor paying off Hunter bite like things that have nothing to do with KLA Harris yeah and then he started going on about Victor Orban for those critical Victor Orban moms that were trying to get those swing voters again a guy the Quasi dictator in Hungary well known if you like watch CPAC every year but most voters have no idea who he is right yeah and I think something I wanted to get your impressions on are some specific issues how do you think she did talking about the economy because Trump will obviously say that this is the worst economy in the history of time but she needed to respond to real concerns about inflation real concerns specifically that young people have about being able to get a job keep a job and move forward home buying issues like that how do you think she did starting to answer those questions yeah look those are tough questions you know we know people are pissed um uh I think she look she's unburdened by what has been what has been which you know was what Biden struggled with which was sounding very defensive and talking about his record and all the things he' done and sort of the tone was often you know how are you not happier about this she was like look things aren't great we've done XYZ but we have more work to do here's my plan to help you buy a house here's my plan to bring down grocery prices here's my plan for inflation so I think she did the thing she needed to do I just don't know that you can solve the problem tonight it's going to take a lot more interviews and public appearances and events more with pod save America's Tommy vtor in a moment but if you like our show make sure to subscribe and share it with your friends so something I think that has struck a lot of people is how much Trump has decided that this is a base election that it's just his base he he believes firmly that he won in 2016 just because of his base and he's like I'm just going to go deeper not wider that's why he chose JD Vance who apparently he doesn't talk to right which about some of the biggest issues in the country like abortion yeah which uh weird but sure so how do you think kamla Harris did about talking to everyone because I think that's been something that's been interesting where she's I mean she's the person bringing up Dick Cheney and talking about how she loves America and there's a part of me that was like like this is not how this sounded like 20 years ago I know I know we were Nam dropping Liz Cheney Dick Cheney and John McCain yeah you George Bush in there you're batting for the Cycles exactly exactly yeah I think at one point she said you know if you're offended by January 6 or these kind of comments are too extreme for you there's a place for you in my campaign like she made an overt pitch for Republicans especially never Trump kind of Nicki Haley voter disaffected Republican so clearly that was part of the strategy like did it work time will tell but I was glad she did it I can't get over the fact that Donald Trump decided to relitigate the 2020 election again I know like I know especially saying like I know I said I lost a couple of days ago but actually I was being sarcastic and actually I didn't lose like I mean I'm aware that sounds insane but I don't know I'm not a swing voter so how do you think that retiga that issue upon which it's not very popular we've seen it in the 2022 midterms people aren't really into it like Carrie Lake not a hugely popular figure for being so focused on this but how do you think that that played to undecided voters yeah I mean I do think for a lot of Voters they probably heard the kind of January six stuff and they just tuned out and they don't want to hear about it and they don't want to talk about it but I bet there are others who are like you don't regret anything from that day you can't say you regret anything you you can't say yeah I wish I had you know tweeted something earlier or I wish that you know these thugs had gone to the capital and beat up a bunch of cops I mean he said um the only person who was killed was Ashley babot who got shot by an out ofcontrol police officer you know he like could of swerved to attack the cops yeah you know not backing the blue not his like proud boy you know militia force that he sent down there so I'm interested I always think about this because there's the story we're going to tell about how this debate played in a couple of months but initial reactions what do you think the in the impact of this debate is going to be I mean I think the narrative tonight is that KLA Harris won and she looked strong and that he just looked off and you're seeing that in the snap polling you're seeing in the kind of like instant focus groups on CNN and other places and so you can tell that the Harris campaign thinks they're coming from a place of strength and Trump's coming from a place of weakness because Trump made this unscheduled visit to the spin room which is not good we saw that after the last debate Biden visited the spin room and that's how we knew bad is not good he went on Shan Hannity Show for a little therapy session you know hung out on the couch apparently he's going on Fox and Friends I think at 640 next morning yeah so like he's in all his safe spaces yeah so I think what they're the Republicans are going to try to do and you're already seeing this on social media is blame the moderators and say it was you know three onone and that's why Trump didn't do well but you know like the pundits will be looking for some huge debate bounce that's very unlikely to happen I think but you know like there's like what 50 some odd days left so KL Harris won September 10th yeah I mean it's never good when you're yelling about the refs never good it's never good especially when the refs say things like actually sir infanticide is illegal yeah and it's it just it's also interesting especially because the Harris campaign I said let's do it again let's do another debate and Trump was kind of like well maybe on Fox news with friendly people who like me with Don Jr uh doing the moderation yeah he actually went on Hannity and was asked about this and he wouldn't commit to another debate yet so it's just not clear that they want to do it interesting interesting I mean I don't know I I think if I'm KL Harris I would probably eagerly do another debate but anyone who's losing should want a debate yeah yeah um I think my my last question for you what are what are you going to remember from this debate what are there specific moments I mean I think that there are going to be a couple of moments of just Comm Harris looking baffled where I'm just like yeah that's kind of how I felt for eight something years and I also am going to remember Trump once again promising a beautiful healthcare plan to which I just keep being like it's been nine years what what was the exact line he said uh we have concepts of a plan yeah concepts of a plan look I've had concepts of a plan before and that generally has ended poorly for me that is uh not going to wear well over time uh I think what will I remember from this I think you're right that k Harris had a Mastery of the cut shot tonight M you know she knew that what she said was important but it was also important how you look when you're not speaking and she looked at like amused which I think is the right way to handle it of looking kind of just like you're interested and amused and then towards the end she got concerned eyebrows like I've seen concerned eyebrows before and it's not good it's scary yeah there's a clip going around where she blinks 10 times and just kind of looks at him and smiles and it you know she called with her face and her facial expr and Sheed and he said some like truly heinous things you know like when you really unpack the insane ranting about people in Ohio eating dogs it's this like fundamentally racist attack on Haitian migrants and when you unpack you know kind of like the the claims he makes about abortion access where he's accusing Democrats of infanticide like that's dangerous rhetoric yeah that's led to violence in the past so I think I'll remember him I'll remember those lines for how just depraved they sound and how baffling it was that he would bring it up at a debate but also you know her answer on abortion um was as close to perfect as an answer could be you know she told a story it was emotional she underscored the stakes um she just was so good yeah no I think that that was a debate in which you came out of it being like Oh there there was a clear winner here and I know who it was and it's the person who absolutely wants to do it again can you just imagine how you felt what was it six weeks ago at the last debate yeah compared to tonight you you you're aware that if the old debate schedule had been in place this would have been the first debate and we'd still have Joe Biden and things would be different things would be very very different let's not think about that too much I'm glad we don't have to Tommy VOR thank you so much for joining me thanks for having me now I'm Memorable Debate Moments and Social Media Reactions sure we could have gone another hour recapping every weird thing we heard tonight but let's hear about what we're going to see online yes as they say a debate is one evening but the memes really do last forever so let's take a walk down memory lane to revisit some of the most memorable moments from years past yeah like during the second US presidential debate in 2012 when Republican nominee Mitt Romney touted his recruitment of women during his time as governor of Massachusetts in the weirdest way possible we took a concerted effort to go out and find women who had backgrounds that could be qualified to become members of our cabinet I went to a number of women's groups and said can you help us find folks and they brought us a whole bind full of of women then there was the 2020 vice presidential debate between KLA Harris and vice president Mike Pence when there were just a fly sitting on his head which to everyone's credit no one mentioned but it was all overal but there was that moment where she made it clear she did not want to be interrupted no but Susan I this is important and I want to add that Mr Vice President I'm speaking and Trump did his own rendition last night wait a minute I'm talking now you know mind please does that sound familiar certainly certainly does he's digging through the archives and like the debates that came before this one also had some very memeable moments the biggest of which seem to be vice president Harris making what can best be described as what the faces As Trump gave some very what the worthy answers throughout the night exactly exactly it's the phase that we will all be trying to make if you haven't seen this already you almost certainly will see it was an instantly iconic reaction perhaps the perfect replacement for the GIF of the white man blinking I'm going to be using it all the time I know that there were also some other memorable lines I have concepts of a plan I'm not president right now it's been n years you have had N9 years to come up with a beautiful healthc care plan George RR Martin thinks you're taking a long ass time to come up with something come on all of that aside just an instantly iconic line thank you so much for that I would like to hear nothing more from him but to leave us with that is perfect Closing Remarks that's all for today if you like the show make sure you subscribe leave a 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