Vice President Kamala Harris definitely went into Tuesday nights debate with former President Donald Trump with a strategy: bait him on the issues that everyone knows get under his skin.

It worked.

Harris arguably rattled Trump from the moment the debate began, when she walked over to his side of the stage and firmly shook his hand.

Within minutes, the vice president was mocking the nonsensical things hes been saying at his campaign rallies and suggested its been getting old, even for his supporters.

He talks about fictional characters, like Hannibal Lecter. He will talk about how windmills cause cancer, Harris said. What you will also notice is that people start leaving his rallies early out of exhaustion and boredom.

The bait, on a topic that Trump is known to care about, had its intended effect. As the moderator moved on to a question about immigration, Trump interjected to say he wanted to talk about his rallies first.

People dont leave my rallies, he insisted. We have the biggest rallies. The most incredible rallies in the history of politics.

Trump also said it was Harris rallies with waning attendance, not his, a claim that Harris responded to by throwing her head back in laughter. He then appeared to lose his train of thought, randomly bringing up false reports of migrants eating peoples pets in Springfield, Ohio.

In Springfield, theyre eating the dogs, theyre eating the cats, theyre eating the pets of the people that live there, said the Republican presidential nominee. The people on television are saying my dog was taken and used for food.

Harris started laughing as he said this, per a White House pool report, and said off-mic, What? This is unbelievable.