Well, the long-awaited debate is over.
The first question was about the economy. Kamala talked about her tax plan for first-time business owners who want to start a business, a tax break for families who want to buy their first homes, and she wants billionaires to start paying their fair share.
Donald scowled and argued with the moderator, blaming the Dems for everything that’s wrong with the world. He bragged about putting a 20-percent tariff on everything that isn’t made is the USA. He obviously does not understand how tariffs work.
The next question was about abortion. Kamala spoke about how dangerous it was for women to be denied care they really need, and that abortion should be up to a woman and her doctor. She believes the government should not tell a woman what to do with her own body.
Donald continued pushing the lie about Democrats (and Tim Walz in particular, in Minnesota) executing babies after they are born. Murder of babies is a crime in all 50 states in case you didn’t know. The moderator asked if Donald would sign a national abortion ban. Donald would not answer.
Donald accused immigrants from Haiti of eating dogs and cats in Springfield, Ohio. Even the moderator tried to tell him it had been fact-checked and there was no evidence of it. Donald interrupted and talked over him to say he’d seen it on TV.
Kamala laughed in disbelief, and said that was not true at all, but only a right-wing conspiracy theory.
When Kamala was asked about her health care plans, she said she’d always supported Obamacare and the Affordable Care Act, and supported Medicare and Social Security.
When Donald, looking grumpy, sweaty, and tired, was asked the same question, he said, amid more lies about the Dems, he was looking at different plans. When asked again about his plan, he said he had “a concept of a plan.” When he was President, he had promised “a better plan” many times, but never kept that promise.
When the subject was supposed to be about foreign affairs, Kamala pointed to her experience as Vice President with the foreign leaders of our allies.
In contrast, Donald yelled about Democrats, World War III, and how his good friends had warned him it would be the demise of our nation, if he was not elected. His good friends were Viktor Orban, Vlad Putin, and Xi Jinping.
Trump, with his weird obsessions with crowd size and a whole selection of “alternate facts,” constantly talked over the moderators got five extra minutes of time that Kamala didn’t get.
It’s time to turn the page and chart a new way forward.
Kate Furness
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