President Donald Trump's campaign is on the airwaves making excuses for his debate performance on Tuesday night. Behind the scenes, however, Republicans are reportedly calling it "a disaster."
MSNBC's Dasha Burns spoke from the debate site in Pennsylvania the morning after, revealing what GOP officials are saying behind Trump's back.
"Some of the Republican operatives I've been talking to have given some mixed reviews," she confessed. "Some say, look, he did no harm. Others saying he really did take the bait from Harris, and they're frustrated by that."
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But it was one specific Republican who highlighted just how bad things were.
"He said, economic start was fine, abortion was a disaster, then she baited him with the rallies comment, and he hasn't been off the ropes since," Dasha Burns quoted from the GOP operative. "It's like his kryptonite."
The operative also noted that Harris successfully made age an issue again without even saying it.
"Trump sat back and let Joe Biden sound old and incoherent in that first debate; now she's sitting back letting Trump sound old, angry, and rambling," Burns explained. "Again, that's from a Republican operative. So the Trump campaign, I think, you know, from behind the scenes, wishes that he had spent more time on answers like immigration where he could have sort of criticized Harris, could have touted his administration's victories. Instead, he went into the unfounded claims about Haitians eating cats and dogs."
There were opportunities where Trump could have talked about his accomplishments or even gone into detail about the failures of President Joe Biden's administration.
However, "he tended to go a little bit off the rails, not exactly what the campaign was hoping he would accomplish last night," said Burns.
Trump is claiming the debate was rigged.
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