Nothing. It was a perfect response, totally beyond the capabilities of a six year old. Also, he had no strokes!! Leader strong!

Nobody said anything resembling that but whatever. 

Every news outlet in the world is saying the debate was the most embarrassing in US history by far and that democracy and American voters are being made a farce by BOTH CANDIDATES.

But good for him for standing up to him if that's what you'd prefer to call it. Hope he wins, sincerely. 

Marc

Then shame on him and he deserves to lose if he is THAT stupid and unprepared.

Marc

Just about everyone INCLUDING FOX NEWS, is blasting Turmp for not denouncing white surpremicists, and the group in particular that was mentioned is apparently adopting something he said as their slogan/motto. 

Condoleeza Rice did an interview on CNN and called him the "Racist-In-Chief".

Amen. This is exactly the problem. 

The message you get when you see the Democrat strategy is that they don't know what's going on. They keep expecting Trump and his sycophants to be "normal" somehow. 

It's like they've just encountered the phenomenon. It's been 4 years (almost 5 if you count the Trump campaign's "serious" irruption). Is "shut up, man" the best you've got?

I know this isn't addressed to me but since Marc and I've been expressing similar points I'll take it. 

Trump is the worst president in US history, from a practical point of view and an even much worse one from a moral one. We all know this, we've been saying it repeatedly in this very thread. Absolutely no one is defending him.

But, at some point, you have to accept this and move beyond that and elaborate some kind of plan for YOU (meaning the Dems) to beat him. Finger-wagging is not going to cut it, and neither is going down to his level (again, because that's the territory where he's better).

Today, the headlines are saying the debate was a national disgrace with two old white men trading insults while one of them was more natural and experienced at doing so.

For me, it's a losing scenario and it's frustrating since as I've also said already I'm not exactly confident on polls when it comes to this particular guy. 

It's Hillary all over again. Of course she was "better" (meaning she said things that made sense and was much less of a terrible human being) than Trump on the debates (and much, much better than Biden).

But still, Trump successfully framed the campaign to the territory he was more comfortable in, a lot of people saw it that way, and he won. 

Same trap, and the Democrats seem to fall for it every time.

Wallace did a terrible job in general losing control of the debate almost instantly. But also, and perhaps most importantly, in trying to reel Trump in he started debating him himself.

This, contrary to some of the takes I've been reading, did Biden no favors at all. The moderator was more effective and assertive at debating Trump (debating, not moderating) than the Democratic candidate.

Trump tweeted this image right after the debate and, conspiracy or not, it's a slam dunk. As an ad man I totally get that this was the synthesis a whole lot of people took from the whole debate, no matter what was actually being said.