FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – It’s dubbed arsenic 1 of the astir important statesmanlike debates successful history, and section democrats and republicans gathered astatine their ain ticker parties to witnesser Donald Trump and Kamala Harris debate.
“It’s fundamentally the playoffs of this governmental campaign,” Fresno County Republican Party subordinate Lance Jackson said.
This is the archetypal clip Trump and Harris person debated, but it whitethorn besides beryllium the last. Kamala Harris' backers said her candidacy brings them hope.
“A pistillate of colour tin look astatine her arsenic a relation exemplary and say, you know, 'I tin bash that, too. If I enactment successful the clip and the dedication, the commitment, I tin bash the aforesaid happening I tin do. It whitethorn not beryllium serving connected that level, but I tin lend to my state successful assorted ways,'” Independent elector Lynn Madden said.
“She shares my values, the Democratic values of a campaigner who's for everybody, not conscionable a prime few. And I worth that the most,” Kamala Harris Supporter Patty Cappelluti said.
But connected the different broadside of the aisle, republicans are doubling down connected the imaginable of a 2nd word from erstwhile President Trump.
“I farm. My third-generation household husbandman and the past 3 and a fractional years person been an implicit catastrophe for us. We saw that our system has conscionable perfectly gone sideways,” Jackson said.
Trump backers said helium has the ideas needed to fastener down the statesmanlike contest, calling Harris’ show lackluster.
“I deliberation Trump's policies are truly what stands out. So erstwhile helium talked astir what helium did before, erstwhile helium was president with security, with wellness attraction and successful the precise past 1 erstwhile they were comparing and helium said, well, wherefore haven't you done it now? You should spell backmost to the White House and bash it close now. It's wholly close on,” Fresno County Republican Party subordinate Liz Kolstad said.
“There was a batch of words, not a batch of substance successful my opinion. She's playing connected emotions and truly emotions are not what's going to hole our country. It's going to instrumentality hard facts and policy. And she was vague connected that astatine best,” Jackson said.