Biased Debate: Echo Chamber Excuse Or Objective Truth?

Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance

I took some time today to expound on my analysis of last night’s debate and respond to some of my subscribers who left comments on my article claiming I was in an 'echo chamber'. 

Most of you, I'm sure, have read my article from last night talking about how the debate was biased.

Generally, on social media, the sentiment was, as I wrote last night, that Trump was really on the back of his feet the whole night. He was defending things he shouldn't have been talking about, you know, the size of his rallies, stuff having to do with COVID, while Harris mainly kept her cool and was on the offensive.

And as I wrote last week, it was always going to be an experiment in what she could bring to the table other than talking about policy. Because her policies don't hold up and she has no good explanation for her flip-flopping.

And so as I wrote... The day before the debate, we knew that yesterday was going to be some type of twenty-five hundred dollar an hour, McKinsey-produced consulting PowerPoint slide deck, approved by a Democratic focus group, on really PR spin and crisis public relations as opposed to talking policy. And to Harris's credit, that's exactly what she did. And she did it effectively, really enough so to even the playing field out last night in a debate where most people thought that Donald Trump was going to easily be the victor.

For me, the big question going in was, what is this crisis PR campaign going to look like? What are the tricks that she's going to use? And now we know. She attacked Trump on things that have no bearing at all to the election, like the size of his rallies. And in concert with the two moderators at ABC, really just made it an all-out assault on him with no semblance of the truth or for any type of ethics at all.

She took jabs at him. She made a series of absolutely cringeworthy faces that I think made her look petulant and stupid. She was obviously extremely nervous at the beginning of the debate. You could tell her mouth was dry. She delivered her opening statement, or the answer to her opening question, poorly. I forget what it was. It was a question about the economy, and it turned into a three-minute diatribe about growing up and all this other stuff.

What I noticed as the debate carried on was that in spots where she was asked to be put on the spot, when she was trying to respond to Trump off the cuff, she really did a poor job. But unfortunately, that didn't come around often, as most of the debate format was asking Trump questions about things about him that were perceived to be negative, and then Trump jousting with the debate moderators over his answer, and then the debate moderators turning it back over to Kamala Harris so she could kind of do mop-up duty with what had just occurred.

I broke down all of my debate analysis in this 20 minute long podcast, which you can listen to here.