Kamala Harris Handily Wins Debate by Triggering Donald Trump

metroweekly.com:

disastrous debate performance in late June.Trump cast Harris’s plans as overly simplistic, saying her economic policy was as short as “four sentences,” summarizing it as “Run, Spot, run.”What appeared to be another pre-rehearsed line was a Trump statement that Harris “wants to do transgender operations on illegal aliens that are in prison,” combining two issues that fire up Republican-leaning voters.Trump delivered the line while trying to cast Harris as a “radical left liberal,” referencing a CNN story, dropped a day before the debate, regarding Harris’s response to a 2019 questionnaire from the American Civil Liberties Union.In the questionnaire responses, Harris reportedly affirmed her support for allowing state funds to cover health treatments deemed medically necessary for incarcerated transgender individuals and publicly supported cutting funding for U.S.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement.While the two issues are separate, they have been conflated as the same issue within right-wing echo chambers.

In a takedown of what he called a “hit piece” by CNN, legal expert, journalist, and former Metro Weekly alum Chris Geidner, the author of the Law Dork Substack, attacked the piece’s author, CNN’s Andrew Kaczynski, for turning the question of whether trans people should receive medically necessary care while in government custody into “an engagement-bait trifecta of hate.”He also criticized other on-air personalities, including Erin Burnett, for inviting Kaczynski on to repeat the assertions from his piece. “This is also not a particularly complicated issue,” Geidner wrote.