Biden called the Proud Boys POOR BOYS, that was the LOL moment of the night.
I think Trump had a slight victory but Biden didn't do too bad, think it'll hurt him to outright say he wants to phase out the oil & gas industry.
The Democrat mod I think actually did a pretty good job, she was pretty fair although she IDPol'd a lot. I'm not sure Heinrich Himmler cares about race as much as she does.
Debate flew by pretty quickly. Was some actual foreign affairs talk too.
What did you think, gang?
I'm not an American, but I do support Trump because I'd rather the US remain the kingpin of the global order instead of being supplanted by China.
I think Kristen Welker was biased toward Biden right from the get-go when she drilled down into Trump wanting specific answers, but never followed up the same way to Biden for most of his answers. That said, I think it was a better debate overall than the previous one with Chris Wallace. Welker wasn't as openly combative as Wallace was, but she was more sneaky in her framing of questions instead.
I think the two biggest things I noticed were both issues with Biden. The first was Biden trying to deny his involvement with his son's and brother's "business" dealings in Ukraine and China, trying to reverse it onto Trump. He got close to claiming that the laptop/emails were fake, but was interrupted by the moderator.
The second was Biden openly stating he wants a pathway to citizenship for 11 million illegal immigrants. As far as I'm aware, you already did that back in the 80s under Reagan and that was supposed to be the end of illegal immigration. Flash forward ~35 years and now it's being proposed again, this time without the additional claim that it'll be the end of illegal immigration forever.
I don't think it really moved the needle either way unfortunately, though hopefully Biden saying he wants to phase out coal and natural gas turns just enough people that some rust belt states go for Trump again, but I'd very much like to see Trump re-elected because I'd really like a pro-American/anti-Chinese leader going forward as China tries to become more dominant.