The View from the Spin Room

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio

I believe [Trump] would do advantageous in a second debate. I believe it’s fascinating [Harris] needs one. Normally in the event you’re successful a marketing campaign, you don’t need any extra debates. You’re successful, why do you need to expose your self to one thing going mistaken onstage? The truth that she needs a second debate tells me—as somebody who has run for workplace—that they should be seeing one thing internally. I believe what they’re seeing is the concept of Kamala Harris firstly now these blanks are being stuffed in by all of the issues she stood for 4 years in the past.

Former GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy

I don’t suppose [Harris] gained. However did she exceed the low expectations set for her? Maybe she did. I believe President Trump did an incredible job, significantly on the problem within the latter a part of that change on abortion. He was in a position to make clear his place in a means that the media has tried to confound at each step of the way in which. I assumed he did an incredible job the place he put Kamala Harris on her again toes with out [her] answering the query of what she would favor. I believe he succeeded in making his place clear.

Residents United president David Bossie

That is the Joe Biden basement technique on steroids—not answering any questions. The ABC moderators have been a shame within the sense that it was a three-on-one debate [with them] attempting to fact-check, they usually didn’t even do it accurately. [Harris] doesn’t need to discuss to the the media, for this reason that is her one and solely time. The American folks care deeply in regards to the financial system, they care deeply about their kids’s future, they care deeply about what the rates of interest are and what the grocery retailer costs are. These are the essential issues to the American folks, and what they’re not getting is any solutions from Kamala Harris. Tonight’s debate didn’t change something in regards to the final 4 years.

Former Trump marketing campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh

I believe in the event you take the talk as a complete, the truth that [Harris] someway managed to get by way of 90 minutes with out expressing a single concept in regards to the inflation dealing with this nation, a single concept about how she may repair the issue on the border that she and Joe Biden precipitated, a single second of reflection about what occurred in Afghanistan. She didn’t say a single phrase to handle any of these issues, clarify her culpability in inflicting them and what she may do if she have been someway in a position to turn out to be president to repair it. Had she achieved that, the query routinely can be: Why don’t you try this proper now? You’re within the White Home now—repair it.