Donald Trump’s debate performance was far worse than even his inner circle anticipated.

While Donald Trump’s team is publicly pushing a postdebate victory lap, many in his camp were privately disappointed in the Republican candidate’s performance on Tuesday.

CNN’s Kaitlan CollinsĀ reportedĀ Wednesday night that several Trump insiders were ā€œstunnedā€ by his poor performance and byĀ just how easily he fellĀ for all of Kamala Harris’sĀ attempts to provoke him.

ā€œI’m told that as soon as Donald Trump exited that debate stage, he immediately began quizzing those waiting in his viewing room about how the last 90 minutes had gone,ā€ said Collins. ā€œWhile several people praised him to his face, telling him they did a great job, that’s not what a lot of them are saying privately today.

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Apparently, all that practice with members of his team, such as former Hawaii RepresentativeĀ Tulsi Gabbard, had ultimately amounted to very little when it came time to debate.

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    TBF he did terribly on the first debate as well, however he was able to form up his ā€œterribleā€ strongly in mostly coherent lies that left Biden’s mumbled and lost ā€œdecentā€ truths in the dust.

    This time Harris led strongly and let trump hang himself, which he did admirably at.