Donald Trumpā€™s debate performance was far worse than even his inner circle anticipated.

While Donald Trumpā€™s team is publicly pushing a postdebate victory lap, many in his camp were privately disappointed in the Republican candidateā€™s performance on Tuesday.

CNNā€™s Kaitlan CollinsĀ reportedĀ Wednesday night that several Trump insiders were ā€œstunnedā€ by his poor performance and byĀ just how easily he fellĀ for all of Kamala Harrisā€™sĀ attempts to provoke him.

ā€œIā€™m told that as soon as Donald Trump exited that debate stage, he immediately began quizzing those waiting in his viewing room about how the last 90 minutes had gone,ā€ said Collins. ā€œWhile several people praised him to his face, telling him they did a great job, thatā€™s not what a lot of them are saying privately today.

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Apparently, all that practice with members of his team, such as former Hawaii RepresentativeĀ Tulsi Gabbard, had ultimately amounted to very little when it came time to debate.

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    2 months ago

    No one is surprised he did poorly, but I donā€™t think anyone expected him to do ā€œimmigrants are eating your petsā€ levels of bad.

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      2 months ago

      Theyā€™re eating your cats! Theyā€™re eating your dogs!

      Theyā€™re eating your babi aborting your babies!

      Me, making sure Iā€™m not watching The Onion News

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      2 months ago

      Whatā€™s surprising is all the people who on Facebook are now saying itā€™s true lol

      Itā€™s literally the most absurd claim ever lol.

      Itā€™s possible it happened once probably by some druggie

      But itā€™s definitely not something that happens regularly šŸ˜‚

      Itā€™s crazy how these people literally see immigrants as animals or a different species lol

      Theyā€™re just normal people

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        2 months ago

        Anything would work on those followers. They are not the people anyone is trying to convince with the debate.