Within minutes of the presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump coming to an end on Tuesday night, the mainstream media was already declaring the vice president to be the clear winner. In the days since then, the media has acted like Harris’ victory was so decisive that there is essentially no way that she can lose to Trump come November.

Unfortunately for Harris, however, she’s just been hit with a major wakeup call when it comes to this debate. Indeed, it seems that she may not have won over as many voters as she thinks she did.

Or any, for that matter.

During the debate, Harris endeared herself to Trump-hating liberals who were always going to vote for her anyway. However, when it comes to the crucial block of independent voters, the debate appears to have been yet another failure for Harris.

Fox Business guest Lee Carter of the communications and consulting firm Maslansky + Partners elaborated on this.

From Daily Wire:
“I had focus groups live that were saying that she did a great job that night but she did not win any votes,” Carter said. “Not one single person that I talked to that changed their mind based on that debate. And I found it fascinating because people said that she did a great job, they said that she was, you know, all of these things — and I was — then why aren’t you going to vote for her?”

“And here’s what they said. The undecided voter — I had nine of them in the room — said, ‘I wanted to hear what she’s going to do differently than Joe Biden. I wanted to hear what’s different about the economy. I can’t afford groceries now, I used to be able to afford groceries. What’s she going to do to bring prices down?’”

“She didn’t answer that very simple question for them,” Carter concluded. “And it doesn’t translate to votes.”

Check out Carter’s full comments on this in the video below.

.@lh_carter: "Kamala did not win any votes. Not one single person that I talked to that changed their mind based on that debate — The undecided voter said 'I wanted to hear what she's going to do differently than Joe Biden.'" pic.twitter.com/i0qizepLmE

— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) September 12, 2024

Ouch, that has got to hurt for Harris!

Harris Failed To Win Over Independent Voters

Harris spent much of the debate making faces whenever Trump spoke and attempting to bait him into having a meltdown. What she did not do, however, is lay out clear policies. She simply did not give voters any indication of what she’d actually do as president.

It should come as no surprise that this has backfired on her when it comes to independent and undecided voters.

Democrats who hate Trump with every fiber of their being were always going to vote for Harris regardless of how she did in the debate. While on the debate stage, Harris’ anti-Trump antics were essentially her preaching to her own liberal choir.

Independent voters who are still undecided, however, have no interest in anti-Trump nonsense. They’ve managed to avoid Trump derangement syndrome for years. Instead of seeing Harris disrespect Trump, they wanted to see her lay out specific policies that she would implement as president, yet she did not do that.

In the end, this debate likely changed little when it comes to the amount of votes Harris will get in this election. Anyone who thinks she was the clear victor of the debate was likely going to vote for her anyway.

Key Takeaways: 

• The mainstream media is claiming Harris won the debate.
• One expert is saying Harris didn’t win over any independent voters.
• This debate likely didn’t change anything about this election.

Source: Daily Wire