The MAGA base wasn’t the target audience last night.
Has he ever denied all involvement in J6? The race question may have blown past many undecided voters but everyone knows J6 and generally why it happened. Denying that he didn’t plan the event and had no part to play in it is one, laughable, and two, a new lie that was laid bare.
It also served as an explicit acknowledgment that it was a really fucking bad day for his movement and our country and not just patriots exercising their 1A rights. The whitewash vanished with his denial of responsibility.
Maybe and probably it won’t matter but it added to the overall theme of the night that he’s a liar who takes no accountability for anything he says or does. It’s not a good look for someone asking independents to trust him with the keys to the country.
I also thought Harris’ listing all of his former cabinet and staff, including his own VP, opposing him, calling him unfit, dangerous and an embarrassment, was powerful.