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'She pitched a shut out': Never-Trump Republicans think Harris 'lit him up' in debate

Republicans who've sworn off former President Donald Trump think he was on the receiving end of a "beatdown" on the debate stage Tuesday night against Vice President Kamala Harris.

"Harris lit him up and melted his orange face paint like the Nazis in Indiana Jones," the Lincoln Project, which bills itself as a leading pro-democracy organization, said in a statement following the debate. "He's f-----."

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'Tragedy': Harris pounces as Trump fumbles response on his 'is she Black?' comment

Former President Donald Trump insisted he "doesn't care what she is" when asked about his questioning of Vice President Kamala Harris' racial identity, prompting the Democrat to respond it's a "tragedy" that someone so divisive wants to be president.

ABC News moderator David Muir asked Trump why he feels it's appropriate to weigh in on Harris' racial identity, referring to Trump's comments at a conference for the National Association of Black Journalists in which he asked, "Is she Black?"

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'You're not running against Joe Biden': Harris hits Trump with debate reminder

Vice President Kamala Harris continued scorching her opponent on the debate stage, giving former President Donald Trump a memo: "You're not running against Joe Biden, you're running against me."

Speaking Tuesday night in Philadelphia, Harris was asked to follow up on Trump's comments in which he suggested the United States is on the precipice of World War III and demanded to know, "Where is our president?!"

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'I didn't detect the sarcasm': ABC debate host hits Trump after he flip-flops on 2020 loss

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said Tuesday that an admission that he lost the 2020 election had been "sarcastic."

At a presidential debate with Democratic nominee Kamala Harris, ABC News debate moderator David Muir asked Trump about admitting that he had lost the 2020 election "by a whisker."

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'Quiet, please': Trump hushes Harris as she argues about Ukraine war

Former President Donald Trump appeared to try to emulate one of Harris' own iconic debating moments against his former vice president Mike Pence in 2020 when she told him to stop interrupting her, in response to his effort to defend his record on security in Eastern Europe.

This came after Harris scolded Trump for his closeness with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin.

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Military leaders 'say you're a disgrace': Harris continues barrage of attacks on Trump

Vice President Kamala Harris continued her barrage of jabs at former President Donald Trump at the debate Tuesday night, flipping his own signature phrase against him.

"Donald Trump was fired by 81 million people," she jabbed, eliciting a scoff from her Republican rival. "So let's be clear about that and clearly he is having a very difficult time processing that."

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'A disgrace!' Trump uses debate to hammer police officer who killed Jan. 6 rioter

At the ABC presidential debate, moderator David Muir asked former President Donald Trump whether he regretted how he handled the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Trump's response was to complain about the death of Ashli Babbitt, a rioter who was fatally shot trying to break into an area where lawmakers were — and then complain that migrants should be prosecuted as harshly as the January 6 defendants.

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'This is so rich': Harris lists Trump's legal woes as he decries criminals crossing border

Vice President Kamala Harris mocked her Republican rival after he accused the Biden administration of allowing a deluge of "common street criminals to cross the border."

Trump repeated his campaign rally stump speeches at the debate in Philadelphia on Tuesday night, positing that "millions of criminals" have been allowed in the country. These people, he claimed, were told by countries such as Venezuela, "don't come back or we're going to kill you."

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Watch: ABC debate host fact-checks Trump for claiming Democrats 'execute the baby'

ABC News debate host Linsey Davis fact-checked Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump after he claimed that Democrats "execute the baby" after birth.

During Tuesday night's presidential debate, Davis asked Trump why Americans should trust him to protect abortion rights "because you've changed your position so many times."

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'They're eating the dogs!' Trump fact-check as he vents over widely debunked hoax

During the presidential debate in Philadelphia on Tuesday night, former President Donald Trump repeated a debunked viral hoax about Haitian migrants eating people's pets in Ohio — and then argued with the moderators when they tried to fact-check him.

He started by complaining that Vice President Kamala Harris "pays people to go" to her rallies, in response to Harris' prior remark that people were leaving Trump's rallies out of boredom. "We have the most incredible rallies in the history of politics. That's because people want to take their country back. our country is being lost ... what they have done to our country by allowing these millions and millions of people to come into our country and look at what's happening to the towns all over the United States."

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'There she goes again!' Trump erupts at Harris as she slams him for 'absolute lie'

Former President Donald Trump accused his Democratic rival of lying during a back-and-forth over abortion.

Vice President Kamala Harris slammed Trump for installing Supreme Court justices who overturned Roe v. Wade protecting abortion at a national level.

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Kamala Harris faces down Trump in angry exchange as debate turns to abortion

When the debate between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris turned to the subject of abortion, Harris stared down Trump and bluntly laid out the consequences of his policies on women's rights and health.

"Let's understand how we got here," said Harris. "Donald Trump hand-selected three members of the Supreme Court with the intention that they would undo Roe v. Wade, and that's what they've done."

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'Bunch of lies, grievances and name-calling': Harris hits Trump out of gate at debate

Vice President Kamala Harris slammed former President Donald Trump early at their first debate on Tuesday night during a back-and-forth on the economy.

When asked if Harris would like to respond to Trump's attacks on the economy with what he called record inflation under the Biden administration, she retorted "let's talk about what Donald Trump left us."

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