Two more to go. And it appears to be conventional wisdom that an incumbent president loses the first debate.
However, I don’t think Trump lost the first scrap. Yeah, you got the media piling on en masse which undoubtedly negatively affects public opinion. Twas always thus, and twill always be.
The election will depend on turnout. Turnout will depend on enthusiasm. Unfortunately, even though no one is enthusiastically for Biden, there’s a whole mess of people who are enthusiastic about getting rid of Trump. Are there enough anti-Trumpers to beat the pro-Trumpers? I doubt it.
Traditionally that may be the case, but this year might be different since Biden is clearly a walking corpse and anyone with even the slightest degree of awareness is well aware of that. Add to that Trump's recent covid health scare, the VP issue has become critically important, much more than in "normal" election years. 2020 is far from normal, in many ways.
Debates are theater, if you believe there is such a thing as a large block of “undecided” voters out there waiting for a debate “performance” to sway their opinion then I have some coastal land to sell you.