Hillary Clinton Shares Thoughts on Kamala Harris’ Debate Performance

Hillary Clinton, the first woman to face Donald Trump on a debate stage, shared her thoughts on how Kamala Harris did during her debate on Tuesday.
Clinton posted a still of Harris smiling during the debate to her Instagram account with the caption: “She crushed him. Join this winning team. kamalaharris.com.”
The post, uploaded on Wednesday, has received 220,868 likes, and almost 4,000 comments.
The comments were mixed, with some people showing support for Harris. One commenter wrote: “Yes she did. But, so did you, and he still won. We’ve got to make sure that history doesn’t repeat itself!”
Another said: “Crushed!!! She showed what a president should look like!”
However, other people were less supportive of Harris and her performance. One wrote: “She won the medal for most faces you could possibly make,” in reference to Harris’ facial expressions which appeared to denote confusion and derision towards many of the former president’s comments.
The debate was watched by 67 million people, 31 percent more people than the Joe Biden vs Trump debate in June.
Clinton is not alone in believing that Harris “crushed him,” as a CNN flash poll following the debate found that Harris had out-performed Trump 63 percent to 37 percent.
Some Trump aides also saw Harris as the clear winner, with former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci telling reporters: “She dismantled him. She handled him delicately and then she handled him firmly. She handled [him] with a prosecutorial scalpel. She handled him with the presence of an American president.”
However, polls do not mean everything, as Clinton herself knows. The polls following her first debate with Donald Trump in September 2016 saw her winning by a clear margin.
According to an NBC reaction poll taken after the debate, 52 percent of voters saw Clinton as the winner, and only 21 percent of voters saw Trump as the winner.
Clinton also posted to her X (formerly Twitter) account to further criticize Trump’s debate performance. She referenced the moment he bragged about having the approval of Hungarian leader Viktor Orban, linking to an article about the leader titled, “It happened there: how democracy died in Hungary.”
Clinton is currently not only supporting the Harris campaign, but is also on a book tour for her new memoir Something Lost, Something Gained: Reflections on Live, Love, and Liberty. The book describes her life and career from working as a college professor, to endeavoring to deprogram white supremacists, to meeting the women defying dictators around the world. Her next stop on her tour is Washington DC on September 16th.
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