Harris did almost everything she needed to do. She beat him on every issue, including immigration. She absolutely shredded him on abortion. On international issues she came across as a true Commander in Chief. One of the most powerful moments of the night was when Harris addressed Trump's past racist antics and talked directly to America about how we see each other as friends and neighbors.

Harris looked directly at the camera and spoke to the American people in a sincere, genuine, moderate and reassuring way. She was confident, intelligent, convincing and likeable. And when she spoke to Trump she would look directly at him: "Military leaders I've spoken to tell me you are a disgrace." Trump by contrast would never even look at her, much less look her in the eye. He was hunched over, squinty eyed and looking at the moderators the entire time. He never even looked into the cameras. He was an angry cranky nutjob who looked very OLD. He became fully unhinged when Harris said people were walking out of his rallies, and he stayed unhinged for the remainder of the debate.

The one criticism of Harris was her lack of granular detail on policy. Harris in fact did outline a number of policies: building 3 million homes to make housing more affordable. Bringing back and expanding the child tax credit. Signing a Bill that codifies Roe (they CAN do it if the dems control Congress and eliminate the filibuster). A number of other things. And FFS look at Trump on detailing policy. He said in 2017 he'd release his phenomenal heathcare plan in 3 weeks. Last night, 7.5 years later, he claims he has a concept of a plan. The only policies he's outlined are a 20% tax hike on all imported goods, and rounding up and deporting 11 million brown people. Everything else is puffing about how smart and great he is.

You're right that not a single Trump cultist will be swayed, but Trump didn't win any new votes last night. Harris I'm certain did. I checked the FB pages this morning of a number of my old highschool friends who are committed Trumptards. Every one of them were talking about how terrible ABC was and the moderators who fact checked Trump all of 3 or 4 times. As if that is what changed the outcome of the debate. Even they know in their guts that Trump was clobbered.