"If I see tens of thousands of ballots being manipulated, I can't go along with that," Trump said. Remember: Just last week, Trump said he's not sure November's election will be "honest" because of the use of unsolicited ballots, extending his baseless assertion that widespread mail-in voting is rife with fraud and again casting doubt on if he will accept the results of the election. For his part last night, Biden insisted that if Americans vote in large numbers — presumably for him — a contested election could be prevented. There were times, particularly during the conclusion of the debate, when almost every comment from Trump was inaccurate. The post-debate result is about the same as the outcome of a post-debate poll in 2016 after the first debate between Trump and Hillary Clinton.

Source: The Nation September 30, 2020 12:33 UTC