{"id":12683,"date":"2020-10-25T06:00:09","date_gmt":"2020-10-25T13:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12683"},"modified":"2020-10-23T16:26:40","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T23:26:40","slug":"trump-won-the-debate-but-won-bigly-the-post-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/trump-won-the-debate-but-won-bigly-the-post-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Won the Debate\u2014But Won Bigly the Post-Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There was a low bar for Joe Biden in the first debate, given his cognitive challenges. Because he exceeded that pessimism, he won momentum.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In opposite fashion, there was similarly an expectation that a disruptive Donald Trump would turn off the audience by the sort of interruptions and bullying that characterized the first debate.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He did&nbsp;<em>not<\/em>&nbsp;do that. He instead let a cocky Biden sound off, and thus more or less tie himself into knots on a host of topics, but most critically on gas and oil. So likewise Trump will gain momentum by exceeding those prognoses.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But far more importantly, the back-and-forth repartee will not matter other than Trump went toe to toe, but in a tough, dignified manner and beat Biden on points. Biden did not go blank \u2014 although he seemed to come close, often especially in the last 20 minutes. Had the debate gone another 30 minutes, his occasional lapses could have become chronic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/trump-won-the-debate-but-won-bigly-the-post-debate\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review There was a low bar for Joe Biden in the first debate, given his cognitive challenges. Because he exceeded that pessimism, he won momentum.&nbsp; In opposite fashion, there was similarly an expectation that a disruptive Donald Trump would turn off the audience by the sort of interruptions and bullying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-3iz","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11923,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/menacing-invective-against-trump-creates-dangerous-climate\/","url_meta":{"origin":12683,"position":0},"title":"Menacing Invective Against Trump Creates Dangerous Climate","author":"victorhanson","date":"August 2, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Former vice president and current presidential candidate Joe Biden has bragged on two occasions that he would like to beat up President Donald Trump. 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