I'm starting this thread because the other ones are getting over-loaded as people go off on tangents from recent developments.
The news had been filled with guesses, as if it were some fun game, as to who would "win" in the Donald Trump/Kamala Harris debate, comparing their debate experience. Well, Trump had more "experience" since he's been in more debates, but he's clearly incapable of even focusing in an informed way on a topic, much less assembling a coherent argument. Neither he nor Kamala has had a lot of experience in the back-and-forth that was traditional in debates, but it's not done that way these days, anyway. And Kamala would be the articulate one, as well as the more factual one.
So, Democrats are pleased, to put it mildly. One of the best things, to me, was that the moderators interposed to contradict a couple of Trump's most flagrant lies, notably, “There is no state in this country where it is legal to kill the baby after it's born.” Kamala was focused, firm, assertive, articulate, even goading Trump, but managed to be smiling and likable. She exaggerated a few things, but Trump was cited for many outright lies.
One commentator said that Trump lost before it even started, by flying in just beforehand as if it didn't much matter (and it's widely known that he doesn't bother prepping), whereas Kamala arrived the night before, and was well-rested after having prepped industriously.
So the question is whether anyone's mind was changed.