Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, said Vice President Kamala Harris showed she is "an intelligent, capable, person" in Tuesday's debate with former President Donald Trump.
Romney, a staunch Trump critic who was the only Republican to vote twice to convict Trump during his impeachment trials in the Senate was full of praise for Harris, The Hill reported Wednesday.
"This was classic President Trump, a performance in the case of Kamala Harris, most people didn't know her terribly well other than a few clips that that were not flattering that you might see on the Internet," Romney told reporters, "and people saw, actually, she's an intelligent, capable person who has a point of view on issues. And she actually demonstrated that time and again."
Romney, who is not running for reelection, said he will not be voting for Trump but has also not endorsed Harris. Romney, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee who lost to Barack Obama, declined to vote for Trump in the 2016 and 2020 elections.
Romney said he doesn't believe debates "move the needle on a permanent basis very much for one candidate or another."
Republican New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu, who backed Nikki Haley in the GOP presidential primary before endorsing Trump, told CNN that Harris "definitely" won the debate, according to The Hill.
"She kind of talked confidence in her answers, and then she took the last 30 seconds of almost every question and hit him with a personal attack, knowing that that would get under his skin," Sununu said. "It was a very effective measure, and I give her a lot of credit on that. It kept him on the defensive, to be sure, and it's ultimately, definitely, stylistically, why she openly won the debate."
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