The Taft team played the role of the negative party.
We can arrive at this answer because:
- In a debate, the negative party is the one that presents the counterargument.
- This is because the argument is generally positive to a certain subject.
- The counterargument, in turn, contradicts this positivity and shows a negative argument, which questions the argument made previously.
The counterargument is shown by the Taft team, so that team is the one representing the negative party.
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