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8) are goggles a big thing for covid? maybe I'm missing that wave

9) overall trump did fine on what could be a weak topic for him

10) meh wondering if biden came off a little too strong on the start of his covid blurb

11)

do you agree with Trump that you'll have a COVID vaccine in the next couple weeks?

12) (I strongly suspect the answer is that the vaccine play is a bad one for Trump, it's just too transparently false.)

13) honestly I totally forgot about trump praising china on covid, yeah that's pretty inconsistent with what he's saying now

14) guessing the 'lot of money someplace' is hinting to hunter but a really weird point, really doesn't hold up

15) trump saying "dude I was the president I couldn't just hide" is a pretty good response

16) biden doing ok but not really hitting this one out of the park, prob underperforming what should be a strong point for him

17) trump pushing too far here, he has a decent point if he sticks to saying that biden wants to shut down more, the hyperbole just gives biden an easy response

18) trump mostly doing a good job on covid but slipping in a bunch of random jabs that seem pretty out of place

19) OK HERE COMES HUNTER TIME

20) good response by biden there, but definitely tempting the beast...

21) trump said biden was selling pillows. what's that a reference to?

22) trump finally going in on hunter. I'm surprised he isn't being more specific there -- the vaguer he is the easier it is for biden to avoid

23) I don't think the tax stuff is changing anyone's mind at this point.

24) biden about to talk about hunter/ukraine, this could be pivotal

25) meh nothing huge there

26) ok mid-debate poll: who do you think polls of viewers will say won? (NOT who do _you_ think won, who will people say won.)

trump
54.1%
biden
35.4%
tie
10.5%

181 votesFinal results

27) oof biden's stutter starting to come out here

28) I think Trump's response on NK might be pretty good here, and is very un-trump-like

29) honestly the health care part of the debate feels so 2016. Don't think it's changing minds.

30) that exchange over passing a stimulus bill went quite well for trump, and really should have been a loser for him

31) this reminds me of that

@TheOnion

segment where eventually all the people on the panel realized that what maximized ratings was just repeating "P.O. Box" over and over again

32) oof, not really sure that IQ play was a great one for trump

33) ok not sure what Trump was thinking with that "good", must have been queuing it up, but really didn't work

34) ok apparently that was "go ahead" not "good", that makes a lot more sense

35) What's the 'China' accusation that Trump keeps bringing up?

36) "I am the least racist person in this room" -- Trump Again, really think the hyperbole is not doing him any good here. His response was doing fine until that.