The only candidate with a believable path to beating President Trump in the Electoral College finally proved he still has the cajones and the coherence to campaign against him in a general election. He also claimed that domestic gun deaths since 2007 have killed 150 million people and responded to a debate prompt asking him about his personal motto with a promise to nominate a black woman to the Supreme Court.
Luckily for Joe Biden, he found his stones at the very last second that it mattered. His eminently weird final minutes of the debate aside, it still seems possible that he ekes out the significant victory in South Carolina he needs to survive Super Tuesday. But if we stop grading on an extremely generous curve and consider the impact of Tuesday’s debate on Election Day, it is impossible to deny that, yet again, the single biggest victor by a landslide of a Democratic presidential debate is Trump.
