WHO PICKED ABC TO RUN THE PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE? Step back from all the discussion about Vice President Kamala Harris, former President Donald Trump, debate preparations, microphones, and all the rest. Start with a basic question: How did the first, and possibly only, Harris-Trump debate become an ABC News debate?

The answer is that President Joe Biden picked ABC because he thought it offered him the friendliest and most advantageous forum in which to debate Trump. Of course, he picked CNN, too, and while CNN was not unfriendly to Biden, the debate will be remembered for the president’s vivid, real-time display of his senescence more than for anything the CNN moderators did.