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The Harris campaign has just released its latest and longest campaign “ad” yet – the entire presidential debate between the vice president and Donald Trump.
Most commentators have seen Tuesday night’s showdown in Philadelphia as a decisive win for the Democratic hopeful, after Trump rambled and appeared to become angry and flustered on multiple occasions.
On Wednesday afternoon, the Kamala HQ posted the full 1hr 40 minute clip to its official X account. “Our newest ad just dropped,” the video was captioned.
It comes as a snap poll revealed the effect of the debate on the state of the presidential race. According to a CNN flash poll conducted by SSRS, 63 percent of registered voters who tuned in to the ABC News debate believe that Harris “won” the debate.
This is nearly double (37 percent) the voters who believed that Trump was the winner.
During the debate Harris baited Trump by talking about his crowd sizes, which led to him ranting first about his rallies before pivoting to the wild conspiracy theory about Haitian immigrants eating neighborhood cats and dogs in Ohio.
Even the former president’s surrogates in the spin room afterwards found it difficult to defend his performance, choosing instead to attack the media.
Trump felt the effects of his meltdown in his pocket too, with share prices in his social media platform Truth Social plummeting as the stock market opened on Wednesday.
Shares in the Nasdaq-listed Trump Media and Technology Group Corp were down as much as 17.6 percent to approximately $15.40 upon opening bell – hours after the debate.
It marked a stark contrast to Tuesday morning, which saw an uptick for Trump’s social media company for a second day in row – with a 3.2 percent increase and shares hitting a $18.63 high when markets closed at 4pm.
By contrast, the Democrats were jubilant. California Governor Gavin Newsom hailed “a great day for democracy” in the spin room.
Source: independent.co.uk
