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Let's say she did have an earpiece in. Why should I be mad about it? Every speech a president ever gives is going to be read from a teleprompter and written by a staffer.
Theoretically, debates are supposed to be off-the-cuff. But like I said to someone else, even if beneath the podium, Frank Oz was controlling her because she's really a Muppet... that didn't force him to say anything about immigrants eating dogs and he knows because he saw it on TV.
Exactly this. Kamala Harris didn't necessarily WIN, so much as Donald Trump wadded the whole debate up and threw it in the fireplace. She made some arguably-innocuous jabs and Trump got INCREDIBLY bent out of shape about it, and looked incredibly unprofessional and non-presidential yelling about how immigrants were eating dogs and Democrats were executing babies in the ER.
I was thinking the same thing, but to play devil's advocate:
"Why am I not allowed to bring my phone into the exam? Any job I use this qualification for is going to let me have access to my phone anyway."
Here's the thing about these debates: The Republicans have no platform or policies. All they have is old white people fears. So the debate sounds like this:
"What is your stance on minimum wage?"
"The minimum wage should increase so that all Americans can afford to survive in this nation."
"WOKE MIGRANTS ARE GONNA FORCE YOUR KIDS TO GIVE YOUR TRUCK A SEX CHANGE OPERATION!"
And you're going to tell me there's a meaningful winner of this mediocre reality TV show?