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Former President Trump and Republicans are pointing fingers in the aftermath of his debate with Vice President Harris that saw the Republican nominee frequently fall into traps set by his opponent and struggle to drive home the message his campaign had previewed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Trump and his allies hammered the moderators at host network ABC News, accusing the outlet of disproportionately fact-checking his responses compared to his political rival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was three to one. It was a rigged deal as I assumed it would be,\u201d Trump told Fox News on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But some Republicans took issue with Trump\u2019s advisers, arguing he was ill-prepared for the showdown, while others said it was the candidate himself who failed to aggressively tie Harris to President Biden until the closing moments of the debate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was an incredibly typical performance on his part when he\u2019s unprepared,\u201d former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who was a key part of Trump\u2019s debate prep teams in 2016 and 2020, said on \u201cGood Morning America.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s clear he didn\u2019t have anyone who would smack him around during prep this time, because he went out there and just did whatever the heck he wanted, straight from his instinct and his gut, which is to be angry and a grievance candidate,\u201d Christie added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more than 90 minutes Tuesday, Harris managed to get under Trump\u2019s skin at nearly every turn, baiting him with comments about his rally crowds, Project 2025, foreign leaders mocking him and critics such as the late Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A CNN rapid poll of debate watchers found 63 percent said Harris won the debate, compared to 37 percent who said Trump won the debate. Trump allies highlighted the poll\u2019s finding that a majority of viewers felt the former president would handle the economy better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump called it \u201cour best debate ever,\u201d but the former president and others quickly searched for others to blame for his struggles to remain on message.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The most common target was ABC News and moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis, who, unlike the moderators of the June CNN debate between Trump and Biden, pushed back in real time on some of Trump\u2019s falsehoods about abortion and immigrants abusing pets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThree vs. one\u201d became a mantra on the right as Republicans sought to portray the moderators as biased against Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis debate is three vs one \u2014 the ABC moderators clearly shilling for Kamala Harris,\u201d Tulsi Gabbard, the former Democratic congresswoman who helped Trump prepare, posted on the social platform X.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLiterally the question to Trump was, \u2018Why did you do the horrible thing?\u2019 And the question to Harris is, \u2018What do you think about the horrible thing Trump said?\u2019\u201d Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) said on Fox News.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But other Republicans acknowledged it was not the moderators at the root of Trump\u2019s issues. Some suggested it was his team who prepared him for the debate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The former president has long eschewed traditional mock debates, instead holding rallies and sitting for interviews while huddling with aides on the side to go over policy and lines of attack. Gabbard and Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) were among those who assisted in his preparation ahead of Tuesday\u2019s debate with Harris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThat debate last night was not three against one, it was four against one. Trump was also having to deal with the morons of the right, who got in his head and filled him up with a bunch of nonsense before he got on stage,\u201d Erick Erickson, a conservative radio host, posted on X.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump\u2019s team had for days argued Harris had the higher bar to clear and repeatedly hyped up the former president\u2019s debating prowess, with one senior adviser likening him to a prized fighter who was impossible to prepare for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Asked about criticism of his advisers, the Trump campaign pointed to a statement sent out Tuesday night near the conclusion of the debate in which senior aides Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles praised Trump\u2019s \u201cmasterful\u201d performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe saw President Trump lay out his bold vision of America and how he would continue to build upon the successes of his first term by supercharging the economy, securing the border, and stopping crime from ravaging communities across the country,\u201d LaCivita and Wiles said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe choice could not be more clear \u2014 President Trump was the clear winner tonight, and he will win for America when he returns to the White House,\u201d they added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While few Republicans were willing to directly criticize Trump himself, there was clear frustration among some allies that he did not execute the strategy his campaign had laid out in the days leading up to the debate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump\u2019s team made clear he would seek to tie Harris directly to Biden and use her record as a prosecutor, senator and vice president to paint her as a liberal out of step with the mainstream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At one point, he said Biden \u201chates\u201d Harris, undermining one of the president\u2019s main arguments that the two were in lockstep. It was only in the final half hour of the debate that he told viewers \u201cshe is Biden,\u201d and it wasn\u2019t until his closing statement that he made the direct case Harris has had three and a half years to push for the kind of changes she\u2019s calling for as a presidential candidate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe hit the critical line, but at the end,\u201d said one former Trump White House official. \u201cIt should have come right at the beginning.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While Republicans expressed some disappointment with how the evening went, there was a sense that it was not nearly the disaster that June\u2019s debate was for Biden, who faced pressure to end his candidacy after his rough performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Polls show a neck and neck race, with a New York Times\/Siena College poll released Sunday showing Trump ahead 1 percentage point nationally and tied with Harris in multiple battleground states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe missed opportunities to hurt her,\u201d one Republican strategist said. \u201cBut it was much lower stakes for him.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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