Only Question that Mattered in Debate Was the First One, Which Harris Refused to Answer—and We Know Why

Vice President Kamala Harris’s avoidance of questions started with the first one. She knew it was coming, and she knew how she planned to handle it. She handled it, and she got away with it. It was, “Are Americans better off today than they were four years ago?”

She was not coerced into answering the question when she went into the canned “I come from a middle class family” nonsense. Everything really hinges on the question, though. The moderators, David Muir and Linsey Davis, spent time fake fact checking former President Donald Trump and telling him he didn’t answer a question, but they allowed her not to answer the question this entire presidential race hinges on. The clear answer to that question is “NO!” Why wasn’t she made to give that answer?

All the talk about what she will do—and even that isn’t clear—while she’s been in office for almost four years already and hasn’t done anything, not even taking care of the border, which is her responsibility.

On performance, Harris won, but she did it with expected phoniness, outright lies, and zero substance. And she did it with the help of the ABC moderators. Trump missed many opportunities and was left playing defense. The falsehoods were a boatload, and he had no choice but to address them—what else could he do? And Muir and Davis didn’t call her out, instead working hard to discredit the former president.

But does anyone know any more about Harris than they did before the debate? No, and the moderators, in part, are to blame because they didn’t ask the substantive questions to get us there, and she just delivered rehearsed rhetoric. We, the American people, deserve better.

Trump had a lot stacked against him, what with debating three people and all, but what he had—and has—going for him is a successful record as president, and surely, the American people are smart enough to see through the nonsense and lies and know that the main thing is that question Harris did not answer—and we know why. That question, again, is, “Are Americans better off today than they were four years ago?” And we know the answer is not just “no,” but “hell no.”