If a presidential debate is an opportunity to showcase the best man or woman the United States has to offer for the most important job in the world, Tuesday night's debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris made me want to start the job application process all over again.

Americans deserve better. We're 55 days out from an election, folks. The candidates have been polling neck and neck. And what we saw and heard Tuesday is the best we've got?

For two hours, Harris and Trump dithered and fought, lied and spewed. Neither of them clarified policy positions or said anything we hadn't heard before. Neither of them were all that appealing, interesting or persuasive. Neither was a winner. It was the American people who were the losers.

Of the many questions the ABC News moderators asked, the only one that really mattered was at the beginning: "When it comes to the economy, do you believe Americans are better off than they were four years ago?"

Harris didn't answer in a straightforward way. She went on about a vague plan to save the middle class.

The economy question should have been an easy one for Trump. But he couldn't quite nail it.

"People can't go out and buy cereal or bacon........

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