The intense presidential debate between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday night has drawn mixed reactions from voters across the country and a lack of consensus as to who came out as the winner. While Democrats maintain that Harris delivered a strong performance, some debate viewers were not sold on the vice president.
A survey of 10 people who claim to be undecided about which candidate they will choose in the upcoming election revealed that 6 respondents claimed they would either certainly or most likely vote for Trump over Harris. Three participants said they would vote for Harris, while one remained undecided. This marks a sharp contrast to the consensus among liberal media pundits that Kamala Harris won.
Sixty-one-year-old Florida voter Mark Kadish called out the lack of substance in Harris’s discussions on policy, “I still don’t know what she is for. There was no real meat and bones for her plans.” Robert Wheeler, 48, from Nevada, who was previously considering voting for Harris, said that her attacks against Trump instead of discussing policy are making him consider voting Republican. “I felt like the whole debate was Kamala Harris telling me why not to vote for Donald Trump instead of why she’s the right candidate,” Wheeler said.
Throughout the debate, Trump simultaneously highlighted why Americans should not vote for Kamala Harris and offered his solution to the problems the country has endured throughout the Biden-Harris administration. For example, when highlighting the rampant inflation in the economy, Trump noted that he would cut taxes and restore the economy back to the way it was under his presidency.
During the debate, Trump stated, “We’ve had a terrible economy because inflation has — which is really known as a country buster. It breaks up countries. We have inflation like very few people have ever seen before. Probably the worst in our nation’s history. … everybody knows I’m an open book. Everybody knows what I’m going to do. Cut taxes very substantially. And create a great economy like I did before. We had the greatest economy.”
In several instances, Harris offered sparse details about her economic plans if elected. However, when she was asked point-blank if Americans were better off today than they were under former President Trump, she avoided the question entirely.
“So I was raised as a middle class kid, and I am actually the only person on this stage who has a plan that is about lifting up the middle class and working people of America. I believe in the ambition, the aspirations, the dreams of the American people, and that is why I imagine and have actually a plan to build what I call an opportunity economy,” Harris said.
After makes a few comments on tax credits, she then attacked Trump, stating, “My opponent, on the other hand, his plan is to do what he has done before, which is to provide a tax cut for billionaires and big corporations, which will result in $5 trillion to America’s deficit. My opponent has a plan that I call the Trump sales tax, which would be a 20% tax on everyday goods that you rely on to get through the month. Economists have said that that Trump sales tax would actually result for middle class families and about $4,000 more a year because of his policies and his ideas about what should be the backs of middle class people paying for tax cuts for billionaires President Trump.”
