Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said during a post-debate analysis this week that the key takeaway he walked away from the debate with was that Vice President Kamala Harris was unable to defend her record in the Biden-Harris administration.
Cruz made the remarks during an episode of his “Verdict” podcast with co-host Ben Ferguson while breaking down how President Donald Trump and Harris each performed during Tuesday’s ABC News debate.
“What tonight illustrated is that Kamala Harris is utterly incapable of defending her own record,” he said. “What we saw tonight, this was her stump speech, and this was her DNC convention speech, cut into sound bites and repeated.”
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Cruz noted that Harris avoided answering questions posed to her by Democrat-friendly moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis, including whether or not people were better off today or under the Trump administration.
“Kamala refused to answer it at all,” he said. “She didn’t say yes. She didn’t say people’s lives are better. She said nothing at all.”
“If I were to predict, we’re not going to see Kamala emerge from the basement until Election Day,” Cruz added. “It’s like the groundhog until she sees her shadow on election day, she doesn’t get to come out of the basement.”
He said that Harris might be able to get away with not having to campaign because the media is so desperate for her to win that “they were going to say that whatever happened — she could literally fall to the ground and start screaming and wailing and kicking her feet in the air — and they would say she won.”
“So that that was going to be the narrative regardless, I will say what we learned is she doesn’t have a good answer to her own record,” he concluded.
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The debate proved that Kamala Harris is utterly incapable of defending her own record. She can’t claim with a straight face that Americans are better off now than they were four years ago.
Instead of discussing her policies, Kamala Harris reverted to sound bites and repeated… pic.twitter.com/loE2oW97Js
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) September 11, 2024
