Trump was highly emotional on the debate stage.
Female candidates rarely have that luxury.
Eventually he went full schoolyard gossip mode, claiming that even PresidentJoe Bidendidnt like Harris.
Ill give you a little secret.
He cant stand her.
New York Times columnist Frank Bruni said Trump looked livid on stage.
(Not to mention, used as arguments againstwomen votingandserving on juries.)
Harris, however, maintained her prosecutorial affect, offering reasoned and logical responses to his statements.
She also used her facial expressions of disbelief, bemusement, shock, dismissiveness to great effect.
While, with him, we got glaring, unhinged anger and smiling idiocy.
Often when such assertions are made, menstruation is invoked.
A woman is too hormonal to be president, the jokes go.
Imagine shes on her period and starts a war because shes in a bad mood!
Still, the stereotype lingered.
You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever.
She never let herself live it down, and others didnt either.
I choked for a few minutes and shed a few tears.
And, oh, my goodness, the end of the world happened,she told NPR in 2016.
I mean, people were like, thats it.
We can never have women.
Theyre just so emotional.
Meanwhile, the woman on stage stayed focused on her strategy and message.
If I do it again, I will use VP Harris example last night as a master class.
And if Lewis is asked about the dangers of overly emotional men running for office?
She said shell cue up a YouTube clip of Trump on Tuesday night.
Sorry to ask anyone to watch him again, she joked.This article originally appeared onHuffPost.
