Veteran political strategist Mark McKinnon, a Republican, was blown away by Kamala Harris' "dominant" performance in her debate against Donald Trump.
The vice president appeared to trigger the former president by claiming Trump fans walked out of his rallies "out of exhaustion and boredom," and the GOP nominee made baseless and bizarre claims about Jan. 6, Hunter Biden, migrants eating pets and gender reassignment surgeries for illegal immigrants in prison.
"I mean, I've seen, watched, prepped for dozens and dozens and dozens of debates," said McKinnon, who worked for George W. Bush and John McCain after years of working for Democratic candidates in Texas. "I just can't remember one that's that dominant in the sense of what she achieved, what she needed to do, and I mean, we can go through the points, and we'll go through, and how she baited him, she just put cheese on the trap, cheese on the trap – he took it every time."
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Trump seemed harried throughout the debate, McKinnon said, while Harris appeared poised and even amused sometimes at her opponent's inability to stay on topic.
"If you just stand back and think about what she was trying to do, which was introduce herself to 30 percent of the electorate who don't feel like they know her very well," McKinnon said. "They saw a calm, cool confident presidential-looking candidate. I mean, if you just watch the screen turned off sound, it looked like she was on the beach in the sun and it looked like he was in a howling rainstorm. She just looked good and she looked presidential, and she looked in control."
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