Raheem Kassam, Editor-in-Chief of The National Pulse, believes the debate between former President Donald J. Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris was largely a “score draw,” but the closing statements gave the America First leader the edge. In conversation with Harry Cole, political editor at The Sun, Kassam said Harris was “at least coherent” compared to Joe Biden, but “very smug and scripted,” especially in her closing remarks. Trump, on the other hand, came across as “indignant”—but “righteously indignant” about “the state of the nation, which a lot of those people in swing states are.”
On the issues, Kassam said the difference in rhetoric between Trump and Harris on Ukraine was striking. Trump, he observed, “talks about war in the sense of human life and human cost,” while Harris “talks about that war, and any war… in the sense of the propping up of an ideology.”
He recalled voters’ dissatisfaction with the cost of the “forever wars” in the Middle East and the way none of them seemed to end in America’s favor—particularly the withdrawal from Afghanistan, botched by the Biden-Harris government in 2021.
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