Trump Got Triggered

Kamala Harris let Trump be Trump, exactly as planned.

When last night’s Presidential debate started, I was a bit concerned about Kamala Harris’ performance. She came across as much more unsteady and nervous than a veteran prosecutor-turned-politician should be, while Donald Trump looked and sounded fearless and steady. (Steady by his own very low standards, at least.) That she didn’t come within a thousand miles of actually answering the first question asked didn’t help matters.

I feared a rerun of the June debate that torpedoed Joe Biden’s re-election campaign, and this time the Democrats would be left with no time to change course.

That feeling did not last. Not only did Harris become much more comfortable and confident as the debate went on - she was much better speaking off-the-cuff instead of trying to remember her scripted lines - but she set a trap for Donald Trump into which he didn’t fall so much as he enthusiastically leaped: