Tuning into Fox News following Tuesday’s presidential debate, it was hard to describe the mood. Somber comes to mind — a little like you might find at a funeral, perhaps for a beloved cat consumed by a political boogeyman.
Donald Trump had just spent almost all of his 90-minute debate with Kamala Harris ranting into his microphone in a 180-degree contrast from his last appearance against Joe Biden. If he kept it together for the first little bit, Trump quickly fell into the traps Harris laid for him — about his crowd sizes, his reputation among military chiefs, his standing among world leaders — and the results were grim. To anyone watching who might have forgotten what the Trump years were like, it was a stark reminder.
When the ABC moderators finally wrapped things up and the lights came up on the Fox News panel, the anchors seemed just as rattled as viewers at home. You instantly knew things were bleak when host Jesse Watters tried to insist that there had been no winners. “I don’t think the American people are watching and thinking any of these people won,” Watters stammered out. He then conceded, “This was rough. This was pretty intense at times.”
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