According to the New York Times/Siena poll released over the weekend, about 28% of people said they needed to learn more about Vice President Kamala Harris, while only 9% said the same about Donald Trump with the race pretty much tied within the margin of error. Consequently, the conventional wisdom going into last night's debate was that Harris had much more to lose — and gain — than Trump, who is thought to have a pretty solid 46% no matter what. Harris could conceivably go up or down pretty substantially. The debate was therefore seen as make or break for her while for him it would probably change nothing. Could she rise to the occasion?

Indeed she did.

That 28% of people who needed to learn more, learned that Harris is quick-witted, highly qualified, very confident and well prepared. Yes, she has a very winning smile and exudes a joyful radiance, but she also has a spine of steel which she demonstrated by walking right up to her opponent at the outset of the debate and then standing and staring him down for over an hour and a half as she dominated poor, spent Donald Trump. It was hardly a fair fight.

The problem wasn't the moderators, it was Trump's big mouth.

I would imagine that even that 9% who've apparently been in a coma for the past decade and needed more information about Trump came away knowing everything they needed to know about him. He's an angry, delusional man who obviously spends way too much time on Truth Social and watching Fox News. He may not have more than a concept of a plan on health care or know much of the Constitution but he's an expert on right-wing conspiracy theories which he seems to believe are absolutely true.

His favorite conspiracy theory is one which he has personally propagated: Immigrants are coming to kill us all in our beds which seems to be the only........

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