DEBATE NIGHT: TROLLING TRUMP. Philadelphia — Shortly after the Harris-Trump debate ended Tuesday night, a high-ranking Trump campaign official explained what happened this way: “She was all aspiration, and he was all action.” That was a pretty good way to describe the core of the debate here at the National Constitution Center. Kamala Harris promised, often with a high degree of vagueness, what she would do were she to become president, and Donald Trump touted what he did as president and would do again were he to win the White House.

The aspirational nature of Harris’s presentation was a solution to a problem of her own making. After all, she has been vice president of the United States for more than 3 1/2 years. If she had a great record during that time, she would have highlighted it. But her record is thin, at best. So she made promises for what she would do as president, promises to create something she called an “opportunity economy,” to restore abortion nationwide, and to pass a failed bill that she claims would fix the disastrous situation she and President Joe Biden created on the U.S.-Mexico border. It was all very…aspirational.