Rep. Anna V. Eskamani during the debate at an event of People For the American Way, a national progressive advocacy organization that inspires and mobilizes Americans to defend freedom, justice, and democracy from those who threaten to take them away. Courtesy of Rep. Eskamani.
Florida’s representative praised Harris’s conciliatory tone, as she highlighted small businesses and her working-class-family roots.
Rep. Anna Eskamani, member of the Florida House of Representatives from the 42nd district in Orange County, highlighted the stark differences between the presidential candidates in the debate between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday night.
The representative described the claims made by Trump during the hour and a half debate as “wild.”
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“Trump was flailing the entire time, saying ridiculous and racist things per usual. Insinuating that people are eating our pets and that we have aliens getting surgeries in prisons,” Eskamani told Floricua.
During the debate, Trump had repeated a debunked report that immigrants were killing and eating pets in Ohio.
Trump, in an effort to portray Harris as a “radical left liberal,” said that she “wants to do transgender operations on illegal aliens that are in prison.”
ABC News moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis fact-checked and corrected Trump four times during the debate.
For example, Trump also made his often repeated claim that Democrats supported killing babies after they were born. Then Davis said, “There is no state in the country where it is legal to kill a baby after it was born.”
ABC moderators did not correct any statements made by Harris.
Trump not only constantly attacked immigrants, but also the racial identity of Harris, whose mother was Indian and father Jamaican. In July, the former president accused Harris of hiding her Black heritage, something she has consistently emphasized throughout her career. During the debate, he defended his previous comments, stating, without providing evidence, that he had “read that she wasn’t Black” and then later “read that she was Black.” He added, “Either way was fine with me.”
Eskamani praised Harris’ conciliatory tone, as she highlighted small businesses and her working-class-family roots.
“Vice President Harris maintained her grit and her grace. She painted a picture for the future. She spoke to her values, growing up in a working class family and really appealing to Americans of all backgrounds,” Eskamani said.
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