This story was originally published by the WND News Center.

Kamala Harris failed right out of the gate in the presidential debate Tuesday night with President Donald Trump.

By declining to answer the question – on the topic of signal importance to Americans, the Biden administration's failed economy has included some 21% inflation for American consumers and sky-high prices for housing, food, and energy.

She asked if she believes Americans are "better off" now, following the nearly four years of Biden and Harris influences, than they were before, but she didn't answer.

She instead boasted about being raised "as a middle-class kid," and claimed that Trump's economic plans would cost American families $4,000 a year more, not acknowledging that the Biden-Harris inflation cost Americans many times that.

She wants to give tax cuts to families and small businesses, not identifying how she would cover those costs.

She blasted Trump for a poor economy and a health catastrophe that developed at the end of his term; apparently blaming the GOP candidate for the COVID-19 pandemic and its results.

Kamale repeatedly smirked, laughed and pursed her lips while Trump was speaking, in an auditorium where there was no audience.

Trump pointed out his tariffs generated billions for the United States and he would resume them. Some of them, he pointed out, the Biden-Harris regime even kept.

He called inflation a "country-buster."

"It's been a disaster for people," he said.

On abortion, Trump explained he appointed Supreme Court justices who returned the abortion decisions to voters in the states, which is what people have wanted for years.

Harris repeatedly lied that Project 2025 belongs to Trump, a plan that he had no part in, and has disavowed.

Harris said she wants to return to the limits of Roe v. Wade, the faulty precedent created by the Supreme Court in 1973, a ruling that essentially provides for literally no limits on abortion.

In fact, Trump cited the words of ex-Gov. Ralph Northam of Virginia who described how his support for abortion extended to setting a baby born alive aside, then having a consultation with doctors and the mother, and then deciding what to do with the child.

That specifically suggests an execution after birth.

He challenged Harris to answer whether she would allow an abortion in the eight, or ninth month, or after.

Harris tried to use her own party's lawfare cases against Trump to embarrass and hurt him. Her party, in fact, has weaponized the Department of Justice and other Democrat prosecutors to create cases against Trump.

Probably the major case was dismissed; others are on appeal and legal experts have condemned the Democrats for their campaign to create claims against Trump.

He responded, "It's called weaponization. They weaponized the Justice Department. Every one of those cases…"

He cited the "total victory" he had in the "documents" case, and when Harris claimed Trump said he would "terminate" the Constitution, he noted, "She's the one who weaponized. I probably took a bullet to the head because of the things they said about me. They are the ones who are a threat to democracy."

On the topic of the Jan. 6, 2021, protest-turned-riot at the U.S. Capitol, Trump took the opportunity to interject with, "I'm speaking … sound familiar," referring to Harris' own penchant for using that same term.

Trump was asked if there was anything he regretted about that day, he pointed out he made a speech, and knew the day's events could be volatile, so he contacted Nancy Pelosi and the Washington, D.C., mayor to offer 10,000 troops to maintain security.

He pointed out that they refused.

"They rejected me," he said. He noted Nancy Pelosi's own daughter has released a video in which Pelosi admits she "is fully responsible for what happened."

Harris said she was at the Capitol that day as "acting senator."

She accused Trump of inciting a "violent mob" to attack the Capitol.

She said he was "indicted and impeached" for that, but failed to note that that impeachment in the House was overturned by Trump's acquittal on those charges in the Senate.

Then she brought up the Charlottesville lie. That is a oft-repeated Democrat falsehood about Trump's comments regarding a race issue in that city. The Democrats' claim that he praised KKK-type radicals has been debunked even by the leftist Snopes.

Harris claimed that Trump's inability to "process" that he lost the 2020 race was worrying, to which Trump said the court cases that drew praise from Democrats were decided on technicalities, which in fact is what happened.

Most of the Trump campaign's challenges to the 2020 results ended up being dismissed, often by leftist judges, on issues such as standing.

On the Hamas terror against Israel, Harris said Israel has a right to defend itself, but complained that Palestinian "children, mothers" were being killed.

"We must chart a course for a two-state solution," she said, insisting on security of Israel and the Palestinians, equally.

Trump said the conflict never would have happened if he had been president. Likewise, he said, Putin never would have invaded Ukraine.

"She hates Israel. She wouldn't even meet with Netanyahu when he went to Congress," he said. "She went to a sorority party. She hates Israel. At the same time she hates the Arab population…:"

He pointed out the tens of billions of dollars the Biden administration gave to Iran, which is the prime sponsor of terror in the Middle East.