Trump insists he won debate in Truth Social rants despite polls showing 23-point victory for Harris: Live
Donald Trump continues to face criticism over his rambling debate performance, a bad evening capped off when Taylor Swift officially endorsed Kamala Harris, as campaign attempts to plot path forward
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Donald Trump is continuing to battle the fallout from Tuesday’s presidential debate against Kamala Harris, which he was widely believed to have lost after allowing himself to be baited by the Democrat into ranting about Haitain immigrants eating domestic pets and defending the entertainment value of his political rallies.
“People are just starting to give me credit for having a GREAT DEBATE,” the Republican presidential nominee wrote on his Truth Social platform on Wednesday evening.
“The Voters and Voter Polls showed it, but the Fake News Media wasn’t giving the credit that was due. Now they are seeing the results with independent Voters, Evangelicals, and more – and saying, WOW!”
Despite Trump’s denials, three major snap polls of viewers conducted in the aftermath of the contest suggest Harris came out comfortably on top by a combined margin of 23 percentage points.
Surveys for CNN, YouGov and SoCal Strategies found the Vice President won by an average of 57 per cent to Trump’s 34 per cent.
Even prominent Republicans have admitted the GOP candidate lost, with veteran strategist Karl Rove writing in The Wall Street Journal that Trump had been “crushed by a woman he called dumb as a rock”.
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The Harris campaign sent out a fundraising email on Wednesday afternoon touting Taylor Swift’s endorsement of the vice president.
“Will you join Taylor Swift in supporting Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign?” the Harris campaign asked in an email to supporters.
NPR reported on Wednesday that more than 300,000 people visited the site to register to vote after being referred to the URL shared by Swift.
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The pop star on Tuesday night (10 September) endorsed Democrat Kamala Harris for president, saying she is a “steady-handed, gifted leader”.
Swift, 34, shared the news in a message on Instagram following the debate between Ms Harris and Republican rival Donald Trump in Philadelphia.
She signed her post “Childless Cat Lady” in reference to comments made by Mr Trump’s running mate JD Vance in 2021 but which resurfaced recently.
Ms Harris’s running mate - Mr Walz - was also heavily mentioned in the endorsement he found out about it shortly after it was made.
He was on live TV when he heard the news.
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The mics were muted during the debate. Here’s what Harris and Trump said
Presidential hopefuls Kamala Harris and Donald Trump were the sources of many memorable sound bites at their first debate — her impassioned support for abortion, his claim that migrants eat pets — but there were just as many quips when their mics were muted.
In what could be the only debate before the November election, the candidates sparred over abortion, the economy, foreign policy and immigration. ABC News muted each candidate’s mic after their turn to speak — but that didn’t mean Harris or Trump stopped talking.
A pool reporter in the room transcribed the off-mic comments which only served to underscore the bitter exchanges between the two candidates.
The mics were muted during the debate. Here’s what Harris and Trump said
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