Democratic candidate Kamala Harris put her Republican rival Donald Trump on the defensive in a combative presidential debate this week with a stream of attacks on his fitness for office, his support of abortion restrictions and his myriad legal woes.
A former prosecutor, Harris, 59, controlled the debate from the start, getting under her rival’s skin and prompting a visibly angry Trump, 78, to deliver falsehood-filled retorts.
At one point, she goaded the former president by saying people often leave his campaign rallies early “out of exhaustion and boredom”.
Trump, frustrated by the size of Harris’ own crowds, said, “We have the biggest rallies, the most incredible rallies in the history of politics.”
He then pivoted to a false claim about immigrants eating pets in Springfield, Ohio, circulated on social…