Local Republicans and Democrats react to presidential debate between Harris and Trump

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- Vice President Kamala Harris and erstwhile President Donald Trump met connected the statement signifier for the archetypal clip Tuesday night.

People astir the Valley were watching and reacting astatine statement parties.

This is the archetypal clip Harris has debated arsenic a statesmanlike candidate.

Prior to the debate, Fresno State Political Science Professor Tom Holyoke said the stakes were higher for Harris than Trump.

"For Harris rather bit, astir apt much truthful than Trump. What is going connected is that Harris is inactive truly trying to present herself and specify herself to the American public. I mean Donald Trump everyone knows Donald Trump," said Holyoke.

Holyoke says the 2 are competing for a tiny portion of voters, but that radical volition person a immense interaction connected the result of the election.

"This contention is truthful balanced astatine the moment, I mean it's fundamentally a statistical necktie that it lone takes a tiny fig of voters to truly displacement it 1 mode oregon the other. Those are the voters that some candidates are trying to scope tonight," said

ABC30 governmental analysts from some sides said they were hoping to larn much astir Harris' argumentation and plans during the debate.

Republican Connie Conway says she was near disappointed.

"I don't deliberation my questions were answered," said Conway.

"I mean I can't judge there's anybody that wouldn't cognize wherever Trump was coming from. But Miss Harris has been benignant of elusive."

Whereas Democrat Henry Perea felt Harris had a beardown show and was wide successful her intentions.

"In my sentiment what they saw is 2 antithetic visions for the aboriginal due to the fact that intelligibly with a infinitesimal oregon 2 to reply a question you're not going to get heavy into policy," Perea explained.

They some took enactment of Harris' telephone for a 2 authorities solution and cease occurrence successful the Israel-Gaza conflict.

"I deliberation it was a beauteous beardown mediate of the road, overseas argumentation presumption for her to take, you cognize the two-state solution. That was bold honestly for her to accidental adjacent though it was the close happening for her to say," said Perea.

"I was a small bothered by her. Miss Harris and her two-state solution that is not a preferred solution by the radical that I cognize and respect erstwhile it comes to talking astir the concern successful Israel."

Trump connected the different manus did not accidental what helium would bash astir the conflict, alternatively claiming Harris and Democrats hatred Israel and that the struggle would not person happened nether his leadership.

Harris instantly called for a 2nd statement but Trump hasn't committed to that.

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