The vice president started out by calling Donald Trump a fascist and then dodged multiple questions on the border wall that she has previously described as racist. She took the stage for the pivotal live TV appearance as polls showed the race getting even tighter with 13 days to go. CNN's panel didn't pull any punches when analyzing her performance, with veteran political strategist David Axelrod calling out her tendency to go to 'word salad city' with her answers.
Meanwhile, three top political experts revealed their thoughts on who will get the keys to the White House next month. Follow all the updates in our election live blog. Thank you for following our live coverage of the election with 13 days to go. The race between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris is still a coin-flip, with a new national poll from the Wall Street Journal late Wednesday showing the Republican edging ahead.
Her performance was almost immediately panned by Democratic strategist David Axelrod who said on CNN afterward that she went 'word salad city' on several answers. Harris stood before undecided voters in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, a swing area outside of Philadelphia, as new polling from The Wall Street Journal showed Trump taking a lead over the Democrat nationally with less than two weeks to go. And I also believe that the people who know him best on this subject should be trusted.
She was less direct when Cooper asked Harris if she wanted to 'build some wall,' as she spoke in support of a bipartisan immigration bill that included wall funding. Jones said there were 'flashes of the Kamala that I know who is really a true public servant' in the Vice President's performance.
Her job was not to 'do town halls' but 'fight for people,' he said. Harris initially hit Trump on not showing up - this was originally supposed to be a second Harris-Trump debate - before facing questions on immigration, abortion and her performance as vice president.
