Donald Trump said he won the presidential debate against Kamala Harris “hands down” and that Taylor Swift “will pay the consequences” for supporting the Democratic candidate in November’s presidential election. He also attacked the network that organized the face-off, ABC News, particularly for the role of journalists who debunked his false claims.
Trump gave an interview on the morning show Fox and Friendsin which he said that Tuesday’s was his “best” debate, according to statements collected by Tutor. He claims to have polls that say he won the head-to-head contest “80-20, 90,” but he wouldn’t specify which polls he’s talking about. “And I think that’s true,” he said. In response to Swift’s announcement that she’s supporting the current vice president, she said, “She’s a very liberal person, she always seems to support Democrats and she’s probably going to pay the consequences in the marketplace.”
Pundits, analysts and early media polls gave Harris the debate win. A quick CNN survey of registered voters who watched the presidential election head-to-head found that the vice president vastly outperformed the former president — 63 percent of 605 people surveyed by text message nationwide saw Harris as the better candidate.
During the interview on the conservative network, the Republican candidate lashed out at ABC News, expressing frustration with moderators who debunked his lies. “They kept correcting me,” she said, claiming Harris had told “blatant lies” and had not been corrected. “A lot of the things I said were discredited, totally discredited. But she could say whatever she wanted. My things were correct, but they corrected you.” In one of his usual rants, he claimed without evidence that the debate was “totally rigged.”
Trump called for ABC to lose its broadcast license after the way it moderated last night’s televised debate. “They should have their license taken away because of the way they did it.” “I think they’ve lost a lot of credibility,” he said. “They are the most dishonest, most dishonest media outlet, and that’s saying something because they’re all, at their core, very dishonest.”
The two candidates faced off Tuesday in Philadelphia in a heated debate in which the Republican appeared exasperated on several occasions. It could be the only face-off between the two less than two months before the November 5 elections, which will decide whether Democrats will succeed in extending their political project or whether the country will face a second Trump term.
The New York tycoon exploded into lies-filled diatribes about immigration, the 2020 election and abortion, while Harris remained calm, responded with expressive gestures to her opponent’s remarks and managed to evade questions about her weaknesses with voters.
Trump launched into a monologue in which he echoed false information on Haitian migrants ‘causing chaos’ in an Ohio town and kidnapping pets to eat them: “They eat the dogs, they eat the cats and the pets,” he said, causing his rival to laugh.
Polls show a close November election, with Harris leading Trump by just 2.7 percentage points in the national vote, according to poll aggregator FiveThirtyEight.
