Presidential debates are often like Rorschach tests for partisans who see what they want to see in the performance. Instead of imagining the random ink stain to be a “beautiful butterfly,” they view it instead as a decisive win for their candidate.
Since the debate, many in the media and many Democrats have viewed Kamala Harris’s well-practiced non-answer answers as a decided victory for her. While they may see it that way, there’s a very good chance that most working-class Americans do not.
After the debate, I conducted my own snap poll of friends and family members living paycheck-to-paycheck while getting battered daily by the harsh realities of life — harsh realities that everyone I spoke with believed have gotten worse under the Biden-Harris administration.
While ABC News, David Muir, Linsey Davis and Kamala Harris were seemingly in lockstep that Jan. 6, the debate about Roe v. Wade, climate change, the racial divide and a “2025 transition plan” Trump has nothing to do with were winning issues, none of those I spoke with — including working-class Democrats — had any of those on their lists of things to worry about as they struggle to pay rising bills while navigating increasing crime, crumbling infrastructure and failing........