There’s a lot of palaver about who won the presidential debate on Tuesday, both in terms of style and substance.
But ultimately, the person who “wins” isn’t the person who can make the most weird faces or have the greatest throwaway line. It’s the person who can get the undecideds and the independents.
The problem for Kamala Harris is that she had a need to define herself, unlike President Donald Trump. What the independent voters wanted to hear was how Harris is different than Joe Biden, whose policies they have not liked, and what are her policies for the future?
As I noted in a couple of my earlier stories about folks in the CBS and Reuters focus groups, the voters didn’t feel they got those answers. CNN also tracked that Trump actually gained points on the most important issue for people, leading her by 20 points on the economy, 23 points on immigration, and six on…
