Florida Sen. Marco Rubio

I think [Trump] would do fine in a second debate. I think it’s interesting [Harris] wants one. Usually if you’re winning a campaign, you don’t want any more debates. You’re winning, why do you want to expose yourself to something going wrong onstage? The fact that she wants a second debate tells me—as someone who has run for office—that they must be seeing something internally. I think what they’re seeing is the idea of Kamala Harris at the beginning now those blanks are being filled in by all the things she stood for four years ago.

Former GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy

I don’t think [Harris] won. But did she exceed the low expectations set for her? Perhaps she did. I think President Trump did a great job, particularly on the issue in the latter part of that exchange on abortion. He was able to clarify his position in a way that the media has tried to confound at every step of the way. I thought he did a great job where he put Kamala Harris on her back feet without [her] answering the question of what she would favor. I think he succeeded in making his position clear.

Citizens United president David Bossie

This is the Joe Biden basement strategy on steroids—not answering any questions. The ABC moderators were a disgrace in the sense that it was a three-on-one debate [with them] trying to fact-check, and they didn’t even do it correctly. [Harris] doesn’t want to talk to the the media, this is why this is her one and only time. The American people care deeply about the economy, they care deeply about their children’s future, they care deeply about what the interest rates are and what the grocery store prices are. Those are the important things to the American people, and what they’re not getting is any answers from Kamala Harris. Tonight’s debate didn’t change anything about the last four years.

Former Trump campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh

I think if you take the debate as a whole, the fact that [Harris] somehow managed to get through 90 minutes without expressing a single idea about the inflation facing this country, a single idea about how she might fix the problem at the border that she and Joe Biden caused, a single moment of reflection about what happened in Afghanistan. She didn’t say a single word to address any of those problems, explain her culpability in causing them and what she might do if she were somehow able to become president to fix it. Had she done that, the question automatically would be: Why don’t you do that right now? You’re in the White House now—fix it.