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The debate?
Well, it wasn't great. In a supposedly tight race, Kamala did herself some good, and Trump didn't. The "moderators" were biased in her favour, but that's always true - and in four years' time the GOP will be agreeing yet again to all debates being moderated by the usual "mainstream", hack-partisan, strictly one-way "fact-checkers".
And of course (as in the first 2020 debate) the right made the mistake of believing its own bollocks. Ben Domenech's pre-debate column:
What we've learned about Kamala Harris to this point on the debate stage is that she is easily knocked off her game.
Yeah, right.
That said, Trump was way better than Harris in the opening minutes, when most people are watching, and pretty effective at other points. But I'm not persuaded that any benefit Kamala derived will last any longer than her post-Biden dead-husk bounce. The election will be decided in half-a-dozen purplish states by whether Vice President Harris can hold her opponent to within the margin of steal.
This oughtn't to be close. As Trump said, the Biden-Harris "Administration" is sleepwalking us, overseas, into the Third World War and, on the home front, into a Third World craphole. But, for those whose priority is abortion, the good news is you'll be able to get your third-trimester foetus nuked out of you - or stabbed out of you on the way to the Planned Parenthood clinic.
Nevertheless, on today's Clubland Q&A I'm happy to entertain your thoughts on last night, and the remaining eight weeks of the campaign - throughout which millions will be voting by mail. Because in America "Election Day" now lasts longer than the entire campaign in most other nations (usually six weeks in Commonwealth countries, seven in last year's Spanish poll, three weeks in this summer's French election).
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