Harris or Trump describing how they could have handled these two crises better would have been good but the rule is never concede anything.

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What Kamala Harris said of Joe Biden’s debate performance in June just after the iceberg hit applies to her own performance against Donald Trump Tuesday night: It was a slow start, but a strong finish. In fact, Biden had a slow start and a slow finish.

She gave a great first impression, walking over to Trump to shake his hand and saying, the ABC transcript shows, “Kamala Harris. Let’s have a good debate,” to which he replied “Nice to meet you. Have fun,” as Caesar said to Brutus, opening the Ides of March senate caucus. They were the last recognizably normal words spoken, not to mention the last time the subject of fun came up.

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In her first 20 minutes, however, Harris spoke too quickly, stumbled over words, looked nervous — as any normal human would be speaking to tens of millions of people — and had to talk about the economy, her biggest weakness. But tough questions for Trump from the ABC questioners scored points Harris should have made herself and a shift to subjects, like abortion, that are in her wheelhouse, built her confidence. Like a rookie who survives the first set at centre court in the U.S. Open, she clearly concluded, about a third of the way........

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