‘Sliced like sashimi’: The key takeaway from historic Trump-Harris debate

One expert on US politics believes Vice President Kamala Harris showed her potential as President during her much-anticipated debate against former US President Donald Trump on Wednesday.

The two nominees for this year’s US election squared off for the first time in one of the most anticipated debates in recent memory, with opinion split on who came out on top.

But Senior Fellow at the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney Bruce Wolpe, who wrote that Ms Harris “sliced Trump like sashimi” during the debate, said on 3AW the former President left his best material to the final minutes of the showdown.

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“She took Trump apart and then he took himself apart,” he told Heidi Murphy.

“Trump saved his best for last and I don’t understand it because it really could have been effective.”

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