How VP Kamala Harris is "demolishing" Pres. Donald Trump

Former President Donald Trump was mumbling, fumbling and stumbling all the way in that debate, while vice president Kamala Harris attacked him with a barrage of frontal jabs and uppercuts right to his nose, quickly followed up by combinations of right and left hooks. Trump looked defeated which reminded me how the hitherto audacious and loquacious Mohammad Ali lost to Joe Frazier in Madison Square in 1971.

And now that emotions are dying down and we can all think clearly on the outcome of that historic debate, perhaps, it is now time to look back and reflect on how hopes in the future can demolish pessimism and regrets of the past, and on how faith in innate the goodness of man can overcome anger, hatred and spite. The Vice President represents hope and the former president is the symbol of negativism. To many US observers, and with whom I wish to align myself, between a self-styled and well known misogynistic racist, who is a convicted felon in multiple counts, on the one hand, and a laughing, eloquent and exuberant former prosecutor, attorney-general and US senator, it was very clear that Vice President Kamala Harris won that debate hands down.

That debate was also a contest between facts and palpable lies. Trump lied when he alleged that illegal immigrants reached record levels during the Biden presidency. But the vice president pointed out that the actual figures showed otherwise, and it was she alone on stage during that debate, who prosecuted illegal immigrants. Trump merely talks about it but has not done anything positive, much less constructive about it. On the contrary, Trump "killed" the best anti-immigration bill formulated by Democrats and supported by Republicans. Trump used his control of the GOP to pressure Republicans to withdraw their support of that bill, which could have solved the entire problem. Trump is part of the problem. Harris is the solution.

Trump lied about immigrants eating cats and dogs in Springfield, Illinois. My God, that is the place where once lived Abraham Lincoln, the best American president who emancipated the black Americans from slavery. In real time, the debate moderator called out Trump and told him that the city manager of Springfield called up that what Trump was bubbling about were lies. Kamala Harris stressed that Trump has innate problems in processing facts and truths in his mind. It would seem that the former president was making up that story of cats and dogs being eaten by illegal immigrants, which has no relation to the truth on the ground.

One crucial part of the debate was when the vice president outlined her plan and strategies for an economy of opportunity to lift up the quality of life of middle class working people, to strengthen social services and liberalize medical care. When Trump was asked about his own plan, he merely mumbled that he has concepts of some plans. My God, the election is about two months hence, and all Trump could mumble was a mere concept of some plan.

The vice president attacked Trump's fixation to grant liberal tax cuts to the ultra-rich business moguls which includes his biggest campaign fund contributors, and the former president did not have a straight answer. This is a fight between the presidential choice of such billionaires as Elon Musk, who is Trump and the defender of the middle class and the poor who is Kamala Harris. In less than 12 hours after the debate the Democratic Party received no less than fifty million donations coming from the poor people.

The crowds attending Harris rallies became bigger and bigger. Trump's crowds became smaller and people were leaving even before Trump could finish his extemporaneous blabbering and mumbling of incoherent lies. My contacts in strategic US cities are telling me that Trump is gradually losing the fight. I have a strong feeling that a little more than two months from now, we shall see the first female elected as US president in history. And, to my mind, that will be good for the Philippines and the Filipinos.

But I strongly suspect that Trump will also deny the results of that election. It seems that the future is clear for America and the Americans, including some five million Pinoys in the US. I can be wrong, of course, but I can also be right.