For Voters Still Mulling, One Thing Is Clear: That Debate Didn’t Help

“Useless.” “Ridiculous.” “Horrible.”

Undecided voters approached the first presidential debate between President Trump and Joseph R. Biden Jr. with some hope of hearing policies and plans that could help them make a decision they had been mulling for months.

Instead, they listened with a mix of disgust and dismay, appalled by the name-calling and lack of decorum of a debate that seemed to shatter any remaining belief that political norms might prevail in a national moment that is anything but normal. CONT.

Lisa Lerer, Jennifer Medina & Katie Glueck, New York Times

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