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Harris should get the polling bump from this debate

The Vice President did a better job highlighting Trump’s extremism that he did painting her as a Californian liberal.

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Today’s debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris was the most anticipated event on the political calendar leading up to election day in November.

Harris went into the debate determined to look like a calm leader focused on the people’s interests while baiting Trump into unhinged tirades that would make him look obsessed with his own grievances and not the American people.

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Michael Jonathan Green is professor and chief executive officer at the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney. He served on the staff of the National Security Council at the White House from 2001 to 2005.

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