COLUMN: Kamala Harris Shines in Debate as Trump’s Old Playbook Fails (This Time)

The bully got bullied.& The old football coach who could not adapt his playbook to compete against a different opponent got exposed. Those are the overarching takeaways from the Tuesday night debate between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia. After the Tuesday night debate, it was clear that Trump was on the losing side. He is like that aging battle rapper whose zings no longer zing. It seemed like Trump yearned for the days when he locked horns with President Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton, putting them on the defensive by wielding baseless, sensational claims meant to incite fear and inflame. For too long, it was a formula that appeared to have worked.& Trump’s Familiar Playbook Fails Against Harris But that all collapsed Tuesday night against Harris, the former California Attorney General, who relentlessly needled Trump on his complicity with the Jan. 6 attacks and attempted to overturn the 2020 election. She brought up his lingering criminal cases and flipped the tables on him by attacking his reputation, which he had done to so many others so many times before, from the “Central Park Five” to former President Obama. “I...