The Vice President Kamala Harris netizens scrutinized on social media after she appeared on Tuesday’s ABC News Presidential Debate against the former President Trump. As the debate progressed, the focus of the comments moved from substance to the performance with reports that Harris displayed a range of facial expressions that were available on split screens for projection and later captured by the viewers as well as commentators.
When trump attempted to respond to a question, Harris was often filmed licking her lips, making ‘wow’ gestures, and smiling hugely. Harris in this case had to remain silent and show her emotions minimally with facial expressions since both candidates’ microphones were on during announcing the other’s speaking time, a fact that this time Sullivan was unable to argue with dresser’s campaign battle.
There was an outpour of reactions from the social pages especially Twitter which turned on the Mettler and Soros’s hired face of brains in photos selectively. The most striking of them, however, had been equally adopting pouting and blinking for heavy criticisms. “Kamala Harris is doing obviously rehearsed routines instead of answering questions. Then she does rehearsed and over the top face gymnastics whenever Trump speaks. A phony weak woman is what she looks like,” was the words of Miranda Devine a columnist for New York Post.
Pollster Frank Luntz said, “On content, Harris is winning. Visually, she’s hurting herself. #Debate2024,” while conservative writer Carmine Sabia pointed out, “Kamala Harris has been way over coached to not making any facial expressions due to the mute mics. It is sickening and awkward.”
Some, for example, Fox correspondent Aisha Hasnie, was rather reposed about her gestures: “So far… HARRIS is making more faces than TRUMP or HILLARY on this split screen. DK how that is gonna do with the voters.”
Some critics even cited the history. “A good number of those expressions were also seen during the 2020 vice presidential debates with Mike Pence and are equally vivid in Harris,” says journalist Ian Miles Cheong.
