She cleaned his clock last night, and everybody knew it.

Like the seasoned lawyer that she is, Kamala Harris took on Donald Trump point by point, with prosecutorial efficiency, and achieved her two objectives. She introduced herself to the 28 percent of voters who say they don’t know enough about her, and she reminded Americans of just who Trump is, and called upon them not to go back.

Harris came across as someone who could take charge, be a considerable president and lead the country. She pointed out that we have more in common than in our differences.

Trump came across as someone who, if he loves America, hates Americans. He seeks to divide the country along odious lines of race and gender.

As was expected, Trump lied repeatedly, and his lies undercut the heart of his claims. CNN counted 33 Trump lies to Harris’s one, and with the one she may have simply misspoken, saying he left us with the “worst unemployment” since the “Great Depression” when she probably meant the “Great Recession” of 2007 to 2009.

Trump’s lies were more compulsive and delusional. Among his most flagrant were that Democrats support executing babies after birth; that “every legal scholar wanted Roe v. Wade overturned”; that the Justice Department has mounted every case against him (tell that to E. Jean Carroll, Alvin Bragg, Letitia James and Fani Willis); “that we recently had the highest inflation in the history of our country”; that crime is down all over the world except here (the FBI has said violent crime has been falling); and that illegal immigrants are “taking over the towns,........

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