Trump v Biden in the first 2020 presidential debate: our panelists' verdict

Donald Trump set the tone for a brawl that offered a bleak picture of American democracyGeoffrey Kabaservice: ‘There were no winners’As this annus horribilis grinds toward its close, the first (and final?) presidential debate provided further evidence that 2020 is a bad scriptwriter. What might possibly have been an interesting and even educational exchange turned out to be a distressing and largely unwatchable pissing contest.For long stretches of the so-called debate, Donald Trump