Throughout the day on Tuesday the Republican Donald Trump and a Democrat, Kamala Harris engaged in hand to hand combat that lasted over 90 minutes and which ended with market prediction showing good signs for the vice president.
The two candidates, fighting for the presidency for the first time, locked horns over abortion and Afghanistan as early voting is about to commence in a number of states critical for the contest.
This is the summary of key points:
Who’s to blame?
Trump egoistically said: “It’s my best debate ever,” despite insisting he didn’t have to explain himself doing press after the debate, and decided to do so anyway and it was not common to do so just because he was interested in how people felt about him.He appeared on Fox News with Sean Hannity in the spin room and criticized the ABC News moderators as being biased against him.
Number Changes
Markets sent out quite loud signals that the debate affected Harris’ chances of winning positively. At the start of Tuesday’s event, PredictIt market placed about even odds for both candidates, and recall by the end fury of Harris had a 7 point lead. Even bitcoin, which had grown in anticipation of a political trump win buoy alongside crypto assets, dived 1%. And several firms from Asia that were working on anti- pregnancy conceiving drugs started increasing during the course of the debate.
Abortion
Practically everything about abortion was among the most tumultuous issues in the debate as the two candidates interrupted and out-talked each other in what was supposed to be a one at a time brawl with mics turned off. Abortion had been quite sensitive, whenever it was brought up, Trump simply refused to comment on whether he was still going to sign off on any legislative proposals to outlaw abortion dovishly. As others were trying to make their points, Harris spent a lot of time rebutting Trump’s issues on the Roe v. Wade abortion issue.
Defensive Position
They were defensive with Trump making the first move of Harris’ attacks in the opening of the debate, but with time it was assumingly Harris switch hitting. In this room as the air grew thicker with tension, Harris dealt one attack after another that Trump could barely block. She referred to the tariff taxes as selling the nation “national sales tax”. She mocked him over his racial gyration, the insurrection that he instigated on January 6, 2021 and the adoration he seems to summon from foreign dictators.
Policy Reversals
Harris’s explanations of why she came back on her word on fracking, the gun buy-back especially in California, white collar crime decriminalization followed by opening the borders and abolishment of private medical insurance KIA. On the other hand, trump slammed her for the border invasion of the U.S and insisted that wars have been waged due to the weakness of the leadership of both Biden and Harris.
Stay Tuned The debate was the only scheduled head-to-head clash of the campaign. However, both competing parties expressed their wish to conduct another debate before November 5th. This is the reason why Trump claimed that he would be up for another debate, provided it took place on ‘a fair network’ and voiced his frustration at the ABC moderators.
