With smirks and head shakes, Harris uses the split-screen format to provoke Trump
It began just as they appeared before the audience.Vice President Kamala Harris walked across the stage into former President Donald Trump's space, reached out her hand and introduced herself. Trump, visibly taken aback, shook her hand. The assertive move by Harris was one that ended up setting the tone for the next 90 minutes, where Harris made her case to become the nation's next president as much through body language as she did through words. And in that period, she repeatedly got under Trump's skin, sending him into angry screeds where he struggled to stay on topic and, at times, careened into confounding anecdotes.“They’re eating the dogs, the people that came in, they’re eating the cats. They’re eating, they’re eating the pets of the people that live there,” Trump said, referencing a baseless claim about Haitian immigrants in an answer about immigration. “This is what’s happening in our country, and it’s a shame.”Trump spent much of the night leaning forward, hands on the lecter...