Winston Churchill to Son Randolph: "how dare you interrupt me while I am interrupting you."
Who was interrupting whom? Clearly, Trump was frequently intruding on Biden's time. We are inclined to think that that serves Trump well but we support Trump. Undecideds and independents are typically offended by interruptions.
The question is, was it Trump's objective to debate Mike Wallace or Joe Biden. Or better yet, should it have been Trump's objective to win over undecided voters?
I don't like to say this, I'm distressed to have to say this, but candor requires me to say that Trump entered the debate with the overwhelming advantage of incumbency As President of the United States Of America and left the debate a brawler who was behind in the Real Clear Average of polls. Biden entered the debate as a demented septuagenarian ahead in the polls and left the debate a viable candidate for president of the United States in possession of his faculties ahead in the Real Clear average of polls.
Trump's objective was to turn the polls around, I believe he failed to do that tonight. Biden's objective was to appear presidential rather than demented and to safeguard his lead in the polls, I believe he did that.
This is not to open debate about the reliability of these Real Clear polls, they are certainly suspect especially given the history in 2016 but they are now about all we have to go with. Moreover, Trump works at a disadvantage in the electoral college and cannot afford to lose more than 34 votes from his 2016 count. Up till now the trend, as I have frequently pointed out on these threads, appears to have been Trump's friend but it also appears to have stalled lately and in any event Trump is vulnerable because of the structure of the electoral college.
Killing the messenger, even messengers who live in Europe, does not change reality
