{"id":29395,"date":"2024-09-11T18:08:22","date_gmt":"2024-09-11T17:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=29395"},"modified":"2024-09-11T18:10:55","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T17:10:55","slug":"kamala-harris-vs-donald-trump-the-first-and-last-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=29395","title":{"rendered":"Kamala Harris vs Donald Trump: the first (and last?) debate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?cat=13\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?cat=13\">Fascinated though I am by American politics<\/a>, I was never going to stay up and lose sleep watching live the ABC one and a half hour presidential election debate between current Vice-President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump. But I made a point of recording the debate and watching every minute today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I rather enjoyed it. It was reasonably coherent and civilised and we saw the clear differences of both character and policy between the two candidates. I thought that Harris won the debate easily with a confident, fluent and empathetic performance. But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/Americanpoliticalsystem.html#Presidency\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/Americanpoliticalsystem.html#Presidency\">the vagaries of the Electoral College<\/a> mean that, while I am certain she will win the majority of votes nationwide, I can&#8217;t be sure that she will the president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve been a fan of Kamala Harris since <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=21584\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=21584\">I first blogged about her<\/a> seven years ago. When Joe Biden withdrew from the presidential race, however, I was not sure if she had proved herself ready to be president. The last two months have surprised and delighted me. We can now but hope &#8211; but I believe: yes, she can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fascinated though I am by American politics, I was never going to stay up and lose sleep watching live the ABC one and a half hour presidential election debate between current Vice-President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump. But I made a point of recording the debate and watching every minute today. I rather [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-us-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29395"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29399,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29395\/revisions\/29399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}