Trump v Harris: Who won US presidential election debate? | Analysis

Kamala Harris was not an especially clear communicator on Tuesday night, and spent little time on the debate stage talking about her major policy commitments. But she did accomplish something that Donald Trump’s opponents have tried to achieve since he first ran for office in 2016: she made him look ridiculous. Twenty minutes into the debate, she launched an attack line tailor-made to wind him up. “I’m going to actually do something really unusual, and I’m going to invite you to attend one of Donald Trump’s rallies, because it’s a really interesting thing to watch,” she said. “You will see during the course of his rallies, he talks about fictional characters like Hannibal Lecter. He will talk about ‘windmills cause cancer’. “And what you will also notice is that people start leaving his rallies early out of exhaustion and boredom.” That line set the tone of the rest of the debate. Trump was furious, and immediately began to ramble about illegal migrants eating dogs an