One thing that Trump was attempting to accomplish in his debate with Biden was to turn it into a waste of time...which he managed to do. Trump talked about not doing any debates long before we got here and now Trump has bailed out of the next debate and there may be no more debates. Trump has now said he will not do Town Hall style debates and he wants nothing to do with any debate where a moderator can turn off his mic and stop him from interrupting Biden. Trump has labelled the process a waste of his time. Trump is not trying to swing voters to his side nor to appeal to undecided voters anyway, he is speaking only to people that would attend his rallies.
He and Barr have a plan in place which is about bypassing the popular vote in about 6 or 8 states. So, literally they plan to try to throw out the actual votes in those states. They are well aware they can't win through a voting process so the plan is to go around it and have state legislators send their own electors to the electoral collage with orders for them to cast their votes for Trump no matter the outcome of the actual voting. I don't know if states will go along, they are hoping they can get Florida, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Arizona and a few others to do this. They are going to try to take this election to courts and take it away from voters.
Looking at the two debates we got to see they did not accomplish much. The debate between Trump and Biden only increased Biden's lead in the polling...not because Biden did well, but because Trump acted like an idiot. Last night's debate will likely not move the needle in either direction. It seems a split between people about which candidate "won" but it also seems basically that they don't care much and it does not matter.
I'm afraid the precedent we are seeing set here is that debates don't matter. At least not at this time in our political history. None of these candidates are great debaters so really we should not expect great debates.
I would also say debates are typically designed to appeal to voters who have not yet made up their minds and the state of our nation is in this election we have fewer undecided voters than we have ever had. So, there is only a tiny group that may be swung one way or the other by these debates.
Nearly 6 million people have already voted here and the debates had nothing to do with how they voted.
On Hillary, I don't hate her I just don't appreciate what she has done to the state of politics here nor how she and her husband dragged the Democrats way over to the right. She's a negative force in this system and had contributed greatly to where we are now...not as much as people like McConnell or Trump but she is one of the destructive players. Mostly, I don't worry about her anymore but she did set precedents that impact someone like Kamala Harris now. Democrats need to move on from Hillary but Republicans do not want that to happen so they help keep her around because she is poison to the process. You can't really account for how we ended up with Trump without including the part Hillary played in getting him elected.
