{"id":2339984,"date":"2024-09-11T21:08:01","date_gmt":"2024-09-12T01:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rfk-jr-critical-of-trump-debate-performance-lost-opportunity-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-09-11T21:11:40","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T01:11:40","slug":"rfk-jr-critical-of-trump-debate-performance-lost-opportunity-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rfk-jr-critical-of-trump-debate-performance-lost-opportunity-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"RFK Jr. critical of Trump debate performance: \u2018Lost opportunity\u2019 &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frfk-jr-critical-of-trump-debate-performance-lost-opportunity-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2339984&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/evan-mcmullin-is-the-democrats-utah-senate-candidate\/\" title=\"Evan McMullin Is The Democrats\u2019 Utah Senate Candidate\">independent presidential candidate<\/a>, \u200bhas\u200b criticized \u2063Donald Trump&#8217;s\u200b performance during a recent debate with Vice President Kamala Harris, calling it a\u200d \u201clost opportunity.\u201d \u2064Kennedy, a supporter of Trump who endorsed him after exiting the presidential race,\u2064 stated that Harris outperformed Trump in delivery and\u200b preparation. He\u200d noted that, while Trump may have had stronger governance points, he failed to articulate them \u2062effectively during the\u200d debate. Specifically, Kennedy mentioned that the opening question about whether Americans are better off now than four years ago was a significant opportunity missed by Trump. \u200dFollowing the debate, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/humiliated-in-virginia-the-lincoln-project-faces-bleak-future-in-2022\/\" title=\"Humiliated in Virginia, the Lincoln Project Faces Bleak Future in 2022\">media sentiment<\/a> has largely favored Harris, with a CNN poll indicating that 63% of viewers believed she won, compared to 37% for \u200cTrump.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">RFK Jr. critical of Trump debate performance: &lsquo;Lost opportunity&rsquo;<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1758731\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Former independent presidential candidate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/rfk-jr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Robert F. Kennedy Jr.<\/a> offered a candid assessment of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Donald Trump&rsquo;s<\/a> debate performance against Vice President Kamala Harris, saying the former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/james-carville-slams-biden-decision-to-skip-super-bowl-interview\/\" title=\"Carville criticizes Biden&#039;s choice to skip Super Bowl interview\">president missed<\/a> an opportunity within the first few minutes.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Kennedy has been a prominent surrogate for Trump since he dropped out of the presidential race and endorsed the GOP leader, and he made the media rounds for the former president after Tuesday&rsquo;s presidential debate.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I think that Vice President Harris clearly won the debate in terms of her delivery, her polish, her organization, and her preparation,&rdquo; the former Democrat said Wednesday in an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/fox-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Fox News&rsquo;s<\/a> Neil Cavuto. &ldquo;I think on substance, President Trump wins in terms of his governance, but he didn&rsquo;t tell that story. In fact, the first question was an extraordinary lost opportunity because it was a question &hellip; which is &lsquo;Are Americans better off four years later?&rsquo; And there&rsquo;s really no argument for saying that they are.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Trump has been criticized as having fallen into traps set by Harris and falling off subject. Harris teased Trump about his rallies&rsquo; crowd sizes at one point, and he responded, claiming Harris bussed in crowds to her own. The overall media sentiment appears to be that Harris won the debate, and a CNN snap poll post-debate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/09\/11\/politics\/election-poll-trump-harris-debate\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>showed<\/a> viewers favored her performance 63% to 37% over Trump&rsquo;s.<\/p>\n<p>Another part of Harris&rsquo;s performance that many observers keyed in on was her quick strides over to greet Trump with a handshake at the start of the debate, a move many thought asserted her dominance.<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy then noted several points that Trump could&rsquo;ve hit Harris on, such as inflation, rising overdose rates, and the wars in Ukraine and Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;And all of these things can be attributed to the poor leadership from the Biden-Harris team,&rdquo; he claimed. &ldquo;And that&rsquo;s the argument he should&rsquo;ve been making. But he got distracted, and I think it&rsquo;s unfortunate because I think he really had an airtight argument for his presidency. But he was not able to make that case to the American public.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cavuto himself said Trump &ldquo;decisively lost&rdquo; the debate, a comment that drew the ire of the former president on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Neil Cavuto, Fox&rsquo;s Lowest Rated Anchor, is one of the WORST on Television. I actually prefer the losers at CNN and MSDNC!&rdquo; the former president <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/113120952687983988\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>wrote<\/a> on Truth Social.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1758731\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1758731\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RFK Jr. critiques Trump&#8217;s debate performance: &#8216;Missed chance&#8217; Former independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. provided a straightforward evaluation of Donald Trump\u2019s debate against Vice President Kamala Harris, stating that the ex-president squandered an opportunity early on. Since exiting the presidential race and endorsing Trump, Kennedy has actively supported him in the media following Tuesday&#8217;s debate. In an interview with Fox News\u2019 Neil Cavuto, he remarked, \u201cVice President Harris clearly outperformed in terms of her delivery, polish, organization, and preparation.\u201d He acknowledged that while Trump excels in governance substance-wise, he failed to convey that narrative effectively. The first question posed\u2014\u201cAre Americans better off four years later?\u201d\u2014was a significant missed opportunity for Trump to argue otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>Critics have noted that Trump fell into traps set by Harris and strayed from key topics during the debate; at one point she mocked him about his rally sizes, to which he retorted by suggesting she had bused in attendees for her events. Overall media sentiment leans towards Harris winning the debate; a CNN post-debate poll indicated viewers preferred her performance 63% to 37% over Trump&#8217;s. Observers also highlighted how Harris confidently approached Trump for a handshake at the start of the debate as a display of dominance.<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy pointed out several issues where Trump could have challenged Harris\u2014such as inflation and rising overdose rates\u2014and attributed these problems to poor leadership from Biden and Harris. He expressed disappointment that Trump didn\u2019t make these arguments more forcefully since they could have strengthened his case for presidency but instead got sidetracked.<\/p>\n<p>Cavuto himself stated that Trump &#8220;decisively lost&#8221; the debate\u2014a remark that provoked backlash from the former president on Wednesday when he criticized Cavuto on Truth Social as &#8220;one of the WORST on Television,&#8221; expressing a preference for CNN&#8217;s coverage instead<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2339985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/RFK-Trump-rally-2-scaled-1024x684.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[7375,32337,32458,3634,32076],"class_list":["post-2339984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-criticism","tag-debate-performance","tag-rfk-jr","tag-trump","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/RFK-Trump-rally-2-scaled-1024x684.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2339984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2339985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2339984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2339984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2339984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}