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Opinion: A forgettable, warped debate unlikely to change the race

Photo/Matt Slocum / The Associated Press / The presidential debate between Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump, on screen at left, and Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris, right, is seen from the spin room on Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024, in Philadelphia.
Photo/Matt Slocum / The Associated Press / The presidential debate between Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump, on screen at left, and Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris, right, is seen from the spin room on Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024, in Philadelphia. Photo/Matt Slocum / The Associated Press / The presidential debate between Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump, on screen at left, and Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris, right, is seen from the spin room on Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024, in Philadelphia.

The Sept. 10 presidential debate went down as expected. Summed up, it was Sappy and the Blob pile on Grouchy.

The evasive Vice President Kamala Harris preened, posed and proffered empty platitudes.

The ABC moderators proved they were predictably biased.

And an irate former President Donald Trump confirmed that he was too touchy and easily triggered.

Harris’s instructions were not to explain her agenda. Instead, her threefold strategy was simple enough — and it mostly worked.