“As I predicted, he melted down in the first moment. She set traps for him, and he walked right into them,” said Alyssa Farah Griffin — who previously worked in the Trump administration.
The ladies sitting in The view the panel provided their respective opinions on the main Kamala Harris against Donald Trump 2024 presidential debate.
The Democratic and Republican candidates met for the first time in person on national TV, kicking off the debate with an awkward handshake before a nearly two-hour rally moderated by ABC News’ Linsey Davis and David Muir.
Whoopi Goldberg began the conversation by calling the conversation a “butt-beating” and saying that she was “quite relieved” with the results of the conversation.
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“Clearly, Vice President Harris kicked some ass. She called out you-know-who on the outside for pandering to dictators, killing the immigration bill, not having health insurance, and spewing lies about postpartum abortion.”
Pleasure Behar joked that their dog got scared after they brought up Trump’s “cats and dogs” comment, where he repeated the social media conspiracy concept that “Haitians in Ohio are eating pets.”
“She was so aggressive toward him that it was almost like elder abuse, like I was watching a woman kick a man in the ass,” Behar added.
.@AlyssaFarah Griffin: “If (Trump) can’t survive a 90-minute debate, how will (he) survive 4 years as president?” photo.twitter.com/mG46orBxPV
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Alyssa Farah Griffin — who previously worked for the Trump administration — admitted there was a clear winner in the debate, and it wasn’t her former boss.
“As I predicted, he melted within the first moment. She set traps for him, and he walked right into them,” Griffin said.
She stressed that Trump should have attacked Harris during questions related to “border security.”
“On the issue he should have been strongest on, border security, he ended up talking about his rallies,” she said, referring to him taking Harris’s bait about people leaving Trump rallies out of “boredom.”
Griffin added that if this debate were “conventional,” Trump should have questioned Harris about some of her policy stances, such as why Harris was “in favor of defunding the police and isn’t now.”
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“However, nothing about this is conventional,” she added as she began listing comments Trump had made, including those defending January 6.
“And best of all, they asked him if he had a health care plan after being president for 4 years, out of office for 4, and he said, ‘I have ideas for a plan.’”
“If you can’t get through a 90-minute debate, how are you going to get through four years?” Griffin concluded.
.@Sunny Hostin at Tuesday night’s presidential debate: “Did you notice Kamala Harris prosecuting a case?” photo.twitter.com/pP6FNMJ19j
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Sunny accommodation in contrast to Harris in her personal days as a prosecutor.
“I had stated from the beginning that I just like the confrontation between a prosecutor and a criminal, right? I like that. And what you noticed was that — you saw Kamala Harris prosecuting a case.”
“I remember when I was a prosecutor, I had a lot of trouble pointing to the defendant and saying, ‘This man did this,’ and my division chief said, ‘If you can’t be honest with the person and say he did this, the jury won’t be honest with that man and say he did this,’” Hostin recalled.
“Then she pointed at him and coached him over and over again,” she said, referring to Harris’s body language throughout the night. She also noted Harris saying that Trump “was fired by 81 million people,” and repeatedly taunting him.
“(HARRIS) SHOWED SHE BELONGS ON THE STAGE”: ABC News political contributor and former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie shares his takeaways from last night’s heated presidential debate between Vice President Harris and former President Trump. photo.twitter.com/9EKfjfG7Bl
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The talk show also had ABC News political contributor and former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie share his thoughts on the scheduled 90-minute debate. Christie has also debated Trump six times before.
“You see someone who is exquisitely well-groomed and someone who shouldn’t be,” Christie began. “These things are exhausting, you go to the market, you know there are 70-80 million people watching you, and you walk off the stage and you’re all alone.”
Christie then commented on the fact that the couple is without their group, tickets, family and phones.
“So if you’re not well prepared, things can go off the rails very quickly,” he said before calling Trump an “indignant man.”
The panel and Christie noted one of Harris’s “boldest” moves of the night, stepping in for the introductory handshake, saying she looked “taller than him” and that it was a “show of confidence” from Harris.
“If she threw him off, then he’s even more stupid than some people realize,” Christie responded to Behar, adding that he thinks the handshake threw him off.
“She did well last night, but that (handshake) was a layup.”
“What I thought was one of the most disturbing elements of this was that he didn’t look at her,” Christie noted. “He didn’t do it because he’s very uncomfortable.”
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