Kamala Harris debate receives positive response ending with a Taylor Swift endorsement!

Republicans Scramble to Spin Trump’s Debate Implosion

The former president flopped in his debate against Kamala Harris, but that wont stop his sycophants from making excuses for him BY NIKKI MCCANN RAMIREZ- echo report published in Rolling Stone magazine.  September 11, 2024

Donald Trump imploded on the debate stage against Kamala Harris during  Tuesday night's debate. The former president fell for obvious bait presented by the vice president, delivered a series of angry diatribes in the style of his rallies, and told lies that repeatedly forced ABC News’ moderators to fact-check him in real-time.

Right-wing lawmakers and commentators are offering a menu of excuses to minimize the damage. In the post-debate spin room and on social media, the former president’s allies are floating everything from moderator bias, to conspiracies about hidden earpieces, to claims that debates don’t actually matter.

The immediate target of the right’s ire were ABC News moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis.

Trump himself claimed that the two hosts had unfairly ganged up on him — when really they were just fact-checking some of his most absurd claims. In one instance, Muir debunked an outburst by Trump in which he accused undocumented migrants of killing and eating people’s pets. During another exchange, the moderators pushed back on Trump’s contention that Democrats support executing infants shortly after birth.

“It was three against one,” Trump complained after leaving the stage.

The grievance was echoed by right-wing influencers and commentators.

Lara Trump, the former president’s daughter-in-law and Republican National Committee co-chair, also described the debate as “three on one.”

HANNITY: What was your overall view of the debate?

Lara TRUMP: It was three on one 🙉🤥

(They can't spin this one) pic.twitter.com/LzhpvDpDpK— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 11, 2024

The Daily Wire founder Ben Shapiro wrote on X — formerly Twitter — that “ABC’s moderators are a disgrace to their profession.”

Sen. Lindsay Graham wrote that “the moderators might as well be on the DNC payroll. This is ridiculous. This is the worst moderated debate in history."  The moderators might as well be on the DNC payroll. This is ridiculous.  (Wow, 😳😌😊can Lindsey Graham spell "f-a-i-l-u-r-e❓)

“This is not a debate, this is public show trial where the judge, jury, and executioner is ABC News,” Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk raged. 😡

Other pro-Trump accounts began tweeting a conspiracy suggesting that Harris’s earrings were secret earpieces that allowed her to be fed answers by her staff. A quick side-by-side view of the advertised earpieces and the jewelry worn by Harris shows that they bear only the vaguest of resemblances. (Maine Writer  😕question❓Did DonOLD Trump's wig piece glue to his brain? He looked old and he was unable to crawl out of the truth sprayed like fresh water by Vice-President Harris.)  "The QAnon/conspiracy sphere is all in on 'Kamala's earrings were actually earphones'. That's how you know they know they lost. They're making up conspiracy theories to cover for Trump's disastrous performance."

There were also plenty who just went ahead and said Trump performed better than Harris. Jesse Watters argued on Fox News that Trump had actually won the debate because his “memorable” lines would dominate the conversation. If “you’re a Republican, you look at this and you’re like ‘That’s DonOLD Trump,’” he said.

Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) wrote on X that Trump delivered a “strong debate victory” and a “powerful America First message.” She also called the moderators “pro-Kamala activists who baselessly attacked President Trump.”

Perhaps the most insane attempt to draw attention away from Trump’s poor showing came from Elon Musk, who responded to a Tuesday night endorsement of Harris by Taylor Swift by making a deranged offer to the pop superstar. 

“Fine Taylor … you win … I will give you a child and guard your cats with my life,” he wrote. 

This is a “different person from the person she was in the interview of CNN, but a different person from the absolute dunderhead so many of us thought she was during her conduct as vice president” he said.

Kamala Strong❗
“She was prepared. She kept her cool. She saw advantages and took them. She baited him successfully, which is the story of the debate in my view. So she came out ahead in this, in my opinion, no doubt,” Hume added