#Harris #Trump #Debate 🧵
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“Not true. Not true,” #KamalaHarris mouths, raising her hand during a #Trump assertion about chips and the U.S. relationship with China. She knows her mic is muted, but that the camera is on her.
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#Harris goes after #Trump on #China policy. (We knew this was coming.) “This deal with China… He ended up selling American chips to China to help them improve and modernize their military — basically sold us out… when a policy about China should be in making sure the United States of America wins the competition for the 21st century.”
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#KamalaHarris is attacking #Trump’s record on covid which was shit at best. He was often dismissive of what #PublicHealth experts suggested, and his administration made a number of major mistakes. She’s also attacking him for praising President Xi Jinping of China and taking a soft tack with him at the beginning of covid. As reported at the time, that’s true — his advisers begged him to take a harder line on Xi.
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#Border #FactCheck #TrumpLies: The number of migrants crossing the southern border illegally is about 60,000 per month, the lowest level in four years
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#Trump is questioned on his #abortion track record — bragging about overturning #RoeVWade, then claiming his administration would be “great for women & their reproductive rights.”
Trump just mixed up the states of West Virginia & Virginia as part of his abortion answer.
#KamalaHarris’s mic is muted, but you can clearly see her shake her said and say “that’s not true” when Trump falsely claims her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, supports abortion in the ninth month.
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#Trump is claiming that #Democrats support executing babies after birth, which is NOT true. That’s illegal everywhere. We are hearing versions of this false claim a lot from #Republicans.
Even though the mics are muted, #KamalaHarris is trying to fact-check Trump in real time. Harris just said “that’s not true” as Trump talked about abortion.
Best #FactCheck of the night from ABC’s Linsey Davis: “There is no state in this country where it is legal to kill a baby after it’s born.”
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After #Trump spent much of his answer repeating the #lie that Democratic states allow killing babies after they’re born, #Harris explains current legal limits on #abortion.
This is a very strong & passionate answer on abortion from #KamalaHarris, really summing up how the bans have impacted #women since #Roe was overturned, & tying Trump closely to those bans.
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#Trump repeatedly dodges the answer on whether he’d veto a #NationalAbortionBan. #JDVance said a few weeks ago that he would veto one if it came across his desk.
Trump basically saying: “JD Vance doesn’t speak for me.”
Trump often references stmnts from a fmr Virginia governor (Trump mixed it up w/West Virginia) to support his false claims that Democrats support killing babies. The VA gov’s comments were about how doctors handle rare cases where the fetus is not viable.
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#Trump is likely very happy to have the conversation move from #abortion to #immigration. Except…
#KamalaHarris says she supports the bipartisan Senate #border bill that Trump basically torpedoed last winter, saying he didn’t want to give the administration a policy win.
Harris says Trump preferred to “run on the problems” at the border rather than trying to fix them with the border bill.
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#HannibalLecter has made his first presidential #debate appearance. ← sentence I never thought I’d write.
Trump loves to claim other nations are sending patients from mental institutions to the US (no evidence of this). But who would have thought Harris would be the first to mention Hannibal Lecter! #AsylumSeekers aren’t looking for #InsaneAsylums dumbass.
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This is the second time the ABC moderators have fact checked Trump’s false claims this time regarding crime stats under #BidenHarris
This seems an effort by #Harris to get under #Trump’s skin: “People start leaving his rallies early out of exhaustion and boredom.” And it works: instead of answering a question on immigration, Trump starts going off about how many people go to his rallies.
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Dude, #Trump is literally spouting the ridiculous #ConspiracyTheory that #immigrants are eating cats & dogs, but doesn’t get distracted.
Again, ABC does a #FactCheck on this nonsense.
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#Harris pivots to name drop all the #Republicans who are now backing her, including former vice president #DickCheney.
#Trump, Mr. #Insecurity, is driven totally crazy when #Democrats bring up his fmr advisers who have turned on him, particularly #JohnKelly, his fmr chief of staff. #KamalaHarris is doing just that tonight -- bringing up all the former administration officials who have spoken out against Trump.
Whiny baby says, “I fired most of those people, not so graciously”
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#Trump falsely claims he got more votes than “any president in history by far” during the 2020 election.
#JoeBiden got 7 million more votes than Trump in 2020. Trump also lost the popular vote to #HillaryClinton in 2016. [#FuckTheElectoralCollege #PeopleVoteLandDoesNot]
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#Trump keeps coming back to #Venezuela #crime rates, which he claims have declined. This has NO BASIS IN #REALITY. Caracas remains one of the world’s most dangerous cities.
He is simply a #Maduro wannabe.
The violent crime #FactCheck by David Muir is 4th time ABC moderators have had to correct Trump.
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#Trump is still refusing to look at #KamalaHarris while she speaks.
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#KamalaHarris goes after #Trump’s #criminal charges and cases in a way Biden never did. Trump looked annoyed but didn’t say anything as she listed out his #felony #convictions & his various cases, including that he was found liable for a #SexualAssault in #NewYork. Now, he tries to fire back & claims #Harris & #Biden are responsible for the federal & state charges, with NO evidence.
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Obviously getting #desperate now, #Trump goes for the #pity play:
Bringing up his assassination attempt & the BS weaponization of the government: “I probably took a bullet to the head because of the things they say about me.”
give me a fucking break loser.
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#Trump looks annoyed as #KamalaHarris said he would terminate the #Constitution. Trump literally said [in a statement full of #lies & #disinformation], “A Massive Fraud of this type & magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, & articles, even those found in the Constitution," said in 2022, stunning his advisers.
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#KamalaHarris mentioned that #Trump’s father gave him a big #inheritance — $400 million — & that his companies repeatedly have filed for bankruptcy.
Trump defensively: “I wasn’t giving $400 million, I wish I was,” he said. “I was given a fraction of that, a tiny fraction of that.”