Add another check to the things-I’ve-never-seen-in-a-presidential-election column. Normally, presidential debates are no more than live, relatively uninteresting interviews with the candidates. But this cycle, the first debate caused a sitting president to withdraw from the race, and the second reminded 67 million viewers that a certain Republican is simply not fit to hold the office. Will Trump’s (under) performance be enough to send his poll numbers sliding and eventually lead to his defeat at the polls? We have to fall back on the old “too soon to tell” adage, but consequences abound from this debate. FUNDRAISING VIRALITY Now, the debates — and just about everything else — live in perpetuity on social media. Memes, TikTok videos, and bits by late-night hosts are being viewed and shared by millions of people. Trump’s most cringeworthy moments will never die. These viral videos are quick and engaging by design, with no context — not that you can put “pet eating” into context. Trump’s rambling incoherence is tailor-made for such things. NO MORE DEBATES Trump has never met a camera he didn’t want to get in front of, so his refusal to debate again is telling. Harris would likely benefit from another debate since she is still working to tell her story and crystalize her policies. TAYLOR SWIFT The endorsement from pop superstar Taylor Swift was more than a gesture. Her backing of the Harris/Walz ticket came with a request from Swift to her 283 million Instagram followers to be sure and register to vote, with a link to the government website vote.gov. Twenty-four hours after the endorsement, more than 405,000 people had visited the site. It usually gets about 30,000 hits a day. In a race this close, that many potential new voters, in the right places, could nudge the needle. At the MTV Video Music Awards the night after the debate, Swift again made a voter registration pitch, this one live during an acceptance speech, to a demographic Harris badly needs: young people. FOCUSING ON THE WRONG THING Really? Now? Seems like he has more important tacos to make. Perhaps that’s the point. He can’t focus on things that actually matter to the voting public, so he is trying to distract them with things that make no difference to most Americans, but make him seem to be a big-shot businessman. This comes on the heels of his media company losing billions in value when the stock tanked after the debate. LIES CAN BE HARMFUL The mayor of Springfield believes the threat was a direct result of the baseless claims made first by vice presidential candidate JD Vance and repeated on the debate stage by Trump. In a shockingly candid op-ed in Wednesday’s Wall Street Journal, Karl Rove, the Republican campaign strategist, had nothing good to say about Trump’s performance. “But there’s no putting lipstick on this pig,” he wrote. “Mr. Trump was crushed by a woman he previously dismissed as ‘dumb as a rock.’ Which raises the question: What does that make him?” It makes him vulnerable. Another unintended consequence. And it becomes even harder to predict where this race is headed.
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