In tonight’s vice presidential debate, Kamala Harris’s running mate should kill J.D. Vance with kindness.

Beto O’Rourke was good at racking up celebrity support—and not as good at winning elections. But his experience illuminates the possibilities of earning a megastar’s approval.

You could hear it in his rambling answer about immigrants and election integrity in Tuesday’s debate.

As Trump vents at ABC News journalists for fact-checking him at the debate, a shrewd press observer discusses why being trapped in the MAGA media bubble is so politically dangerous for him.

Harris’s climate answer was bad by design. And the immigration segments of the debate show why that’s a bad strategy.

A modest effort to enforce capital requirements on financial institutions has fallen by the wayside. We will all pay for this surrender in the next too-big-to-fail bailout.

For me, all the proof I need that Trump, if not the biblical Antichrist, is at least a political one, is what he says and does.

She’s been coasting on good vibes, but the honeymoon is over. Now she needs to lay out how her governing agenda differs from Biden’s—and Tuesday’s debate is the perfect place to do it.

Trump can’t win by getting people to like him, so he’ll do the opposite. I hope Kamala is ready for anything.

The Democrats have always had three options. Sticking with Joe Biden always seemed like the least bad option. Last night, that changed.

Joe Biden has been a very successful president. But that debate was a disaster, and the country can’t afford a Trump presidency.

Can he beat Trump and save American democracy? If not, he should step aside.

Voters don’t need zingers or put-downs. They need to be reminded that an adult is in charge.

No matter what happens, the right is going to lie about Thursday’s debate. Biden’s camp better be ready to push back aggressively.

Polls this far out from the election are notoriously unreliable. But the outcome of Trump’s hush-money trial and the first presidential debate could help shift public opinion.