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In the debate room, Trump talks to Grio and is confronted by a member of the Unonerated Five
“If he can’t respect the person who is the vice president of the United States, he can’t respect the person who is standing right next to him enough to call him by his first name… Why should the American people… trust him to be commander in chief?” Butler said.
During the debate, some American voters got a probability to get to know Harris, who is black and of South Asian descent. The vice chairman didn’t address her race or gender, but she did share her personal story of being raised by a single mother who bought her first home when she was a teenager.
Senator Butler acknowledged that some voters are “curious about Kamala” after Harris quickly emerged as the Democratic presidential candidate. A recent New York Times poll found that 28% of Americans want to learn more about America’s potential first female president.
Harris also outlined some of her economic policy proposals, including child tax credits, federal funding for first-time homebuyers and tax deductions for small businesses. Trump, meanwhile, pivoted from the economy to immigration, saying migrants are taking jobs away from black people.
Harris countered that Goldman Sachs and the Wharton School of Business support her economic plan. On the other hand, she identified that experts say Trump’s plan “will lead to a recession.”
However, Democrats in the conference room declared Kamala Harris the clear winner of the debate.
After an hour and 45 minutes of debate, Donald Trump surprised reporters together with his appearance. The presidential candidate apparently wanted to twist the narrative that he had lost the debate.
A swarm of reporters surrounded the 78-year-old former president and asked questions as he answered while walking in a large circle. Trump told reporters it was his “best debate” to date.
Shortly afterward, a reporter asked if the president thought he would lose the election to Haitians after he and his running mate, J.D. Vance, claimed that Haitian immigrants were eating dogs in Springfield, Ohio.
“I really don’t know. All I do is tell the truth. And whether I lose votes or gain them, I really don’t care,” Trump said.
During the debate with President Trump, his false and debunked claims about Haitian migrants eating dogs and cats in Springfield were brought up. The debate moderator ABC News fact-checked Trump, stating that the city manager had reported that the claim was not true.
The next query was asked by Dr. Yusef Salaam, a city councilman in Harlem, New York, and a member of the Exonerated Five. A gaggle of 4 black men and one Latino boy were wrongly imprisoned for attacking a jogger in Central Park. Trump took out a full-page ad calling for the death penalty. After years in prison, the five men were released and found innocent by DNA evidence. Trump refused to apologize.
On Tuesday night, Salaam tried to confront Trump.
Salaam said voting against Trump was a personal decision, but it surely was also about selecting the “best candidate” — which he believes is Harris — and preserving American democracy.
Kwame Kilpatrick, the former mayor of Detroit, was also in the spin room. The former Democrat is a Trump surrogate who had his 28-year sentence commuted as president in 2021 after Kilpatrick served seven years in prison for corruption and extortion while in office.
Kilpatrick said supporting Trump in the 2024 election is personal for him, and politics is personal for everybody. But he acknowledged that for Yusef and the other 4 members of the Exonerated Five, it is also personal.
He continued: “You even have a personal perception that this person cares about what is going on on and then supports the First Step Act and releases over 40,000 people from prison. It wasn’t just Kwame Kilpatrick.
Throughout the election cycle, polls have shown Trump having fun with a small but noticeable increase in support amongst black male voters.
In Michigan, Kilpatrick said Trump’s support amongst black men is about 9 percent, up from 7 percent, he said. “It goes up when you have issues that matter to real people.”
In response to Donald, Salaam said: “I believe people have been deceived, misled and are in a vicious circle, just as our good leader Malcolm X said.”
An impassioned Harlem city councilman stressed, “We need to make sure we understand the truth about certain issues… because we rely on word of mouth.”
Salaam appealed to black voters to do their “research” and remain committed to “reading” the truth.