Donald Trump claimed to have won “by a long shot” the presidential debate against Kamala Harris and Taylor Swift “will pay the consequences” of his support to the Democratic candidate in the presidential elections next November. He also attacked the network that organized the face-off, ABC News, in particular for the role of the journalists who denied his false claims.
Trump gave a telephone interview to the morning show Fox and Friendsin which he said that Tuesday's was his “best” debate, according to statements collected by Tutor. He claims to have polls that show him winning the head-to-head race “80-20, 90,” but he didn't specify which polls he's talking about. “And I think that's true,” he said. In response to Swift's announcement that she's supporting the current vice president, she said, “She's a very liberal person, she always seems to support Democrats and she's probably going to pay the consequences in the marketplace.”
Experts, analysts and first investigations published by the media They favored Harris as the winner of the debate. A quick CNN survey of registered voters who watched the presidential election head-to-head found that the vice president vastly outperformed the former president — 63 percent of the 605 people polled by text message nationwide thought Harris was the better of the two.
During the interview on the conservative network, the Republican candidate attacked ABC News. He expressed his frustration for the fact that the moderators refuted his lies. “They kept correcting me,” she said, claiming Harris had told “blatant lies” and had not been corrected. “A lot of the things I said were discredited, totally discredited. But she could say whatever she wanted. My things were correct, but they corrected you.” In one of his usual rants, he claimed without evidence that the debate was “totally rigged.”
Trump called for ABC to lose its broadcast license after the way it moderated last night's televised debate. “They should have their license taken away because of the way they did it.” “I think they've lost a lot of credibility,” he said. “They are the most dishonest, most dishonest media outlet, and that's saying something because they're all, at their core, very dishonest.”
The two candidates faced off on Tuesday in Philadelphia in a heated debate in which the Republican appeared exasperated on several occasions. The New York tycoon exploded into diatribes full of lies about immigration, the 2020 elections and abortion, while Harris remained calm, responded with expressive gestures to her opponent's remarks and managed to evade questions about her weaknesses with voters.
Trump launched into a monologue where he echoed false information on Haitian migrants 'causing chaos' in an Ohio town and kidnapping pets to eat them: “They eat the dogs, they eat the cats and the pets,” he said, causing his rival to laugh.
It could be the only face-off between the two less than two months before the November 5 elections, which will decide whether Democrats succeed in extending their political project or whether the country faces a second Trump term.
Harris' campaign has already proposed a second face-off. In the interview, the former president said he was “less inclined” to participate in another debate. “I'm less inclined to do it, because we had a great night. We won the debate.”
Polls show a close November election, with Harris leading Trump by just 2.7 percentage points in the national vote, according to poll aggregator FiveThirtyEight.