Written by Eva Gerstner

This article is not meant to worship Trump and every word that comes out of his mouth. This is not to defend how well he did on Tuesday night’s debate. This is not to argue that he “won,” frankly I don’t think he performed well in Tuesday night’s debate. This is to show the political decay in our country because of the absence of objectivity in the media and the long term damage that can cause. 

The purpose of a debate is to exchange ideas, challenge assumptions and positions, and establish your value as a candidate. To do this, the debate must be moderated objectively, kept on topic, and each participant must be treated with the same respect as the other. This is not what we saw Tuesday night. 

Let’s begin with the moderators. Were they moderating the debate or were they participating? These debates should be moderated by professional, objective individuals with the intent of getting to the heart of the issues. The moderator should not have a dog in the fight. The moderators never had control of this debate and never had an inkling of impartiality. They fact checked, in real time which is a bold move in a live debate, Trump over five times, while not once fact checking Harris and her false statements about issues such as Project 2025, abortion, IVF, border security, etc. It’s clear the moderators are owned by the DNC, and were put in place to make Trump look foolish while guiding Harris with soft questions and not asking for clarification.

Considering that we just had the 23rd anniversary of the terrorist attacks on 09/11 I was shocked by the hubris and hyperbole of Harris to claim that Trump is the biggest threat to democracy since the Civil War. This woman is incapable of telling the truth. She wants us to believe she and Walz are suddenly pro gun, pro business, and pro wall. We have been paying attention the last 4 years, they have not. How can we, as regular Americans, be convinced that they have changed? The moderators, had they done their job, could have pressed Harris on these statements to clarify what exactly has changed, but they failed in this as they did in every other aspect of their job on the night.

It’s difficult to trust what she says. No one is currently in or has been in a better position to affect the change she is evangelizing than her over the last 4 years. But what has she done? Nothing. I have no trust in her as a leader and no interest in what she wants us to believe that she believes in. She is a morally bankrupt, radical marxist, paper-bag of a candidate who cannot point to one accomplishment in her political career, but now promises will be different. 

For any undecided voters who tuned into the debate, you were left as disappointed as I was. Watching that the only take away that we have is that Trump is petty, and Harris was the calm, collected alternative. To me, it’s all so clear, so calculated. The questions they asked were to get Trump emotional and prevent him from speaking clearly on his policy platform. While the questions the asked Harris allowed her to make vague, flowery statements about nothing. We know less about Harris after Tuesday than we did before. After watching that debacle, it’s not hard to see why America has lost all trust in the media. I wonder why they don’t see it?

These debates are no longer held to discuss policy; We learned that in 2016. It’s to nitpick the other candidates, and Trump took the bait. The media knows Harris cannot win on merit, so they are doing everything they can to attack Trump to make her look like the better bad option. Harris is merely a progressive prop. They are replacing Biden with a woman of color, knowing progressives will eat that up. The media knows we would all fall for it because they have us in their clutches. We applaud when they say applaud, we inject when they say inject, we submit when they say submit. (@houseinhabit) This is no longer democracy, it’s a poor production. There is no “winner” of this debate, because this election is no longer between Trump and Harris. It’s the mainstream media vs. America. And we don’t have a shot.