Harris clearly beat Trump - not that you'd know it from the rightwing media. Shame on them | Emma Brockes

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : And yet, even for Trump, aspects of his debate performance in Pennsylvania came so close to the edge on Tuesday that the next day what seemed most astonishing wasn't that Harris had performed so well but that so many apparently sentient human beings were still shilling for her unhinged opponent.
47% : (Apart from the pet-eating thing, my two favourite Trump lines were "Venezuela on steroids" and "I told Abdul: don't do it any more!" - an absolute corker from Trump on the subject of how he stuck it to the Taliban.)
46% : It was a striking moment, this use of a word that might apply equally to all the high-information Americans and their allies in Britain continuing to excuse Trump this far into the game.
40% : Dick Cheney triggered a volley of "she"s from Trump.
35% : Much has been made of how calm she was, and of how her smirk - what the New York Post disapprovingly called her "dismissive laugh" - goaded Trump to greater depths of incoherence.
27% : Because the truth, of course, is that Trump looked like a lunatic on Tuesday night.
22% : On X, eugenics fan and world's richest man Elon Musk admitted Trump had had a bad night and that Harris had "exceeded most people's expectations".
21% : In the pro-Trump New York Post, the paper admitted that Trump had been "rattled" but bleated about unfairness from the debate moderators on ABC News.
21% : Then Trump himself popped up on the network to accuse the debate of being "rigged" - a sure sign, whatever the competition, that he had in fact lost.
20% : I got that same flash of genuine outrage when, in relation to Russia's expansionist ambitions, she said to Trump: "You adore strongmen instead of caring about democracy."
15% : "That is immoral," Harris said of Trump making decisions about women's bodies.
5% : (They pulled Trump up on his lies about immigrants eating American pets and Democrats legalising infanticide - there were times, on Tuesday night, when the task of debating Trump looked a lot like trying to debate a copy of the National Enquirer.)

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