Even the WSJ’s #RightWing editorialists thought that VP #KamalaHarris “won the debate because she came in w/a strategy to taunt & goad #Trump into diving down rabbit holes of personal #grievance & #vanity,” while #KarlRove added in a column that the night “was a #TrainWreck for him, far worse than anything Team Trump could have imagined.”

And then, in a universe all its own, was #FoxNews.

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“All the memorable lines were from Donald Trump,” host #JesseWatters proclaimed after the #debate ended. (He specifically cited #Trump’s “eating the pets” line.) “He just had some great knockouts,” Watters added. “And so this race just got tighter.”

“That’s probably true,” anchor #BretBaier agreed.

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An ebullient #KamalaHarris campaign immediately called for another #debate. (#Trump, who once called for debates “ANYTIME, ANYWHERE, ANYPLACE,” eventually refused the challenge after much hemming & hawing.) But #Harris’s gesture of confidence prompted #FoxNews’s #LauraIngraham to argue: “They don’t think she won. They don’t think she’s in a position to win this race.”

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#SeanHannity interviewed Sen #MarcoRubio (R-FL), who claimed #Trump notched “a big win.”

Sen #LindseyGraham (R-SC) [who initially said it was a “disaster for Trump] said #Trump had “the best closing in presidential #debate history.”

Trump himself joined #Hannity in the spin room. “I think it was my best debate ever,” he said.

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And that was just within the first 75 mins after the #debate. The next morning, #Trump was back, on “Fox & Friends.” “I won the debate by a lot,” he said, & “every single poll last night had me winning like 90-10.” The hosts did not contradict him. At the same time, Trump argued that #ABC News should lose its broadcasting license, because “they had a rigged show with somebody that maybe even had the answers.”

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On Wednesday afternoon, #JesseWatters returned to the airwaves. “I found [Harris] evasive, found her unlikable, preachy &, instinctually, I don’t know that’s going to play with men,” he said. “The signature moments that you see on the internet after this, she didn’t have any. … #Trump had them all.”

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On Thursday afternoon, conservative radio host #HughHewitt, a Post Opinions contributor, announced on #FoxNews that #Trump “is in the process of winning the #debate” because “a debate isn’t over in a day” & “upon further review, the American public has decided that debate was rigged.”

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It was a case study in how the dominant “news” organ of the right cleans up #Trump’s messes. When President Joe #Biden had his disastrous debate, liberal outlets & commentators panned the performance & ultimately helped to force him out of the race. But when Trump had what was, objectively, a bad night, #FoxNews led a movement to claim it didn’t happen.

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67M viewers saw an out-of-control #Trump claim he won the #2020election, complain that those who attacked the Capitol on #Jan6, 2021, were “treated so badly,” argue about his #CrowdSize, assert that he had read that #Harris “was not Black” & that #Biden “hates her,” admit that he still only has “#ConceptsOfAPlan” on #healthcare, make odd statements such as “I got involved with the #Taliban” & “she wants to do #transgender operations on illegal *aliens* that are in prison,”

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& utter this ludicrous #slander about #Haitian #immigrants: “They’re eating the dogs, the people that came in. They’re eating the cats. They’re eating — they’re eating the pets of the people that live there.”
#FoxNews then told its viewers (14M people watched the simulcast on the network) that they had not seen what they just saw. Unless I missed it, viewers also weren’t told the other news of the night, that #TaylorSwift had endorsed #Harris after the #debate.

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Often…readers ask why #Trump’s followers don’t see that he is off his rocker. This is why. #FoxNews sane-washes him — & it sets the tone for the entire #MAGA social media ecosystem.

The main disagreement on the network seemed to be between those who believed the #debate had been a triumph for Trump & those who believed the two #ABC News #moderators denied the #GOP nominee his rightful triumph.

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