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I wish Harris would have doubled down on this. After he tried to shift the Jan 6 blame to Pelosi, she could have directly pointed out that Donald Trump's idea of leadership is to shift the blame for all failures to other people. And that's why he's so afraid of people holding him accountable at trial.
But generally, she did rather well IMO. These debates haven't been about policy for a while, but she still took the time to outline hers. They're about presenting who you are to the American People. But only nerds watched the thing live, the rest will only see 5-second sound bites. I think Harris did a good job presenting herself to the nerds as Presidential and capable of the job, while baiting Trump into saying more stupid stuff to feed the Social Media beast.
His base won't care, because it believes that cat-eating illegals are forcibly making all of our kids trans. But it could make a difference to that sliver of the electorate who has not paid attention until now, and can see how weird it all is.
Unfortunately, I think if she's too aggressive or mean then it will turn off a lot of swing voters. It's smart to err on the side of caution.
If she were debating anyone else, maybe you would have a point. But you need to hit back hard when debating Donald Trump, because he will never stop hitting you.
Do you really think there are uninterested voters who would watch the clips of this debate and say "Harris was too mean, so I'm voting for Trump instead?"
Yes. Mostly because it would "validate" extremely thinly veiled sexism.