Harris confirmed that she was slicker. But her habitual happy-face nodding has been seen over the last 90 days as facilitating her shallowness, stonewalling, and evasions.
Trump reestablished that he is fiery, quick-tempered, and easily provoked. But the country already knew all that from the last nine years.
Half the nation always felt Trump's loose-cannon furor was well-directed against plastic politicians and the fusion media -- and likely saw such confirmation in the debate.
The sappy Harris won the visuals; the grouchy Trump likely the issues.
But the real losers were ABC and its two partisan moderators, Muir and Davis.
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