Trump is a liar, a criminal, and an idiot man-child who has become increasingly incoherent in his dotage. It’s an asymmetric war that you can’t really win

There’s almost no way to “win” a debate against a serially unserious liar like Trump , but if Harris can knock him off his vibe, she might stand a chance.

Trump will meet expectations if he simply avoids committing violent crimes onstage.

The only way for Harris to meet expectations is to demolish this fool, and make it look effortless.

LZ Granderson : I deliberately misconstrued Trump ’s attacks on so-called “illegal” immigrants and re-characterized them as attacks on immigrants generally.

LZ: I want to make going toe-to-toe with me so unpleasant for them that they try instead to defend their policies.

Trump is instinctively good at knowing what plays well on television, he says, and he's not even bound by his own previous positions.

If Harris makes one, it’ll be a four-day news cycle capped off by Megyn Kelly parodying Harris while wearing blackface.

Trump is going to spend all of his time insulting Harris (there is zero chance he pronounces her name correctly), insulting brown people, insulting women, insulting grammar, and insulting the collective intelligence of the entire nation.

We know that Harris could “win” the debate but lose the “show”.