Kamala Harris Will Be The First Black Woman In A VP Debate. So Her Preparation Looks Different.
He called the president a “fool.” He complained that no one could hear over “this clown,” before dryly correcting himself: “Excuse me, this person.” And finally, without hesitation, Joe Biden shouted across the room, “It only took a few hours, on the night of last week’s presidential debate in Cleveland, for the Biden campaign to stamp the phrase on T-shirts.
When Christina Reynolds, a senior official with the women’s group EMILY’s List, heard Biden say those five words on TV last Wednesday — “will you shut up, man?” — the first thought that popped into her head was “Hillary Clinton couldn’t have said that.” The second was: “I’m not positive Barack Obama could have either.”
The expectations on Wednesday are high. In her primary campaign, Democratic voters often said they dreamed of seeing Harris on a debate stage opposite Trump, citing her performance in Senate hearings, where she grilled Trump administration officials. “He’s a good debater. So I’m so concerned — like I can only disappoint,” she joked at a fundraiser in September.
“From Day 1, the expectations for her have been stratospheric, and the margin for error has been minuscule,” said one former Harris campaign aide. Preparing for the debate, Hillary Clinton’s team knew they would be up against an “understated” speaker with experience as a former radio host, recalled Matt Paul, a senior Clinton official who attended debate prep sessions with the Virginia senator. “There was enormous pressure on Sen. Kaine to be more aggressive and frankly biting than he is as a person,” Paul said. “For a lot of folks, that was not the Tim Kaine they were used to seeing.
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