Presidential Debate: Trump’s Personality & Performance Make Biden Election Win More Likely

I don’t wish to discuss the debate because I’m not a masochist. It was a crap crêpe. A turd taco. Fecal flan. The American people could be forgiven for rising as one and declaring to Donald Trump and Joe Biden, “Everyone in this country is now dumber for having listened to you. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.” To quote a previous American president, “That was some weird sh**.”

Biden’s debate answers were an omnishambles of evasions, lies, and self-contradictions. He said “the Green New Deal is not my plan” — though his website proudly likens his energy plan to the GND — then said the Green New Deal would “pay for itself,” which makes it sound like a very good plan. He issued talking points as though he were a foreigner flicking desperately through random pages in a political phrase book: “Once again, a woman could be held — make more money because she has a pre-existing condition of pregnancy.” He asserted, “there’s 100 million people who have pre-existing conditions, and they’ll be taken away as well,” a remix of his September 21 claim that “200 million have died” of COVID-19, or his February 25 claim in a primary debate that “150 million have died since 2007” of gun violence.

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Kyle Smith

Kyle Smith is the film critic for the Wall Street Journal.

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I don’t wish to discuss the debate because I’m not a masochist. It was a crap crêpe. A turd taco. Fecal flan. The American people could be forgiven for rising as one and declaring to Donald Trump and Joe Biden, “Everyone in this country is now dumber for having listened to you. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.” To quote a previous American president, “That was some weird sh**.”

Biden’s debate answers were an omnishambles of evasions, lies, and self-contradictions. He said “the Green New Deal is not my plan” — though his website proudly likens his energy plan to the GND — then said the Green New Deal would “pay for itself,” which makes it sound like a very good plan. He issued talking points as though he were a foreigner flicking desperately through random pages in a political phrase book: “Once again, a woman could be held — make more money because she has a pre-existing condition of pregnancy.” He asserted, “there’s 100 million people who have pre-existing conditions, and they’ll be taken away as well,” a remix of his September 21 claim that “200 million have died” of COVID-19, or his February 25 claim in a primary debate that “150 million have died since 2007” of gun violence.