Trump's only real error laid in his failure to keep asking pointed questions of Harris. Harris was dead meat at her own hands.
Let's recap just broadly.
Firstly the moderators sucked the big gay tuna. Their work was so artlessly transparent, I was torn between pitying them and wanting to be on their firing squads. If ABC has any epsilon of credibility before the "debate", they sure as hell had none of it left at the end. They tossed creampuffs at Harris and failed to follow up in the wake of her utter bullshit responses and outright failures to answer what had been asked. They took a markedly different tone and approach with Trump, their hostility thinly masked.
Harris spoke in nothing but vagaries clearly intended to have an emotional effect.
Trump's other mistake was rising to Harris' bait. Bad move, but now water under the bridge.
Trump's coup de grace was when he finally asked the question of where in hell she's been for the last 3.5 years and all she could so was make her weak attempts at looking back at Trump with the brand of smug expression that leaves decent people wanting to slap the taste out of someone's mouth.
Oh, and Trump got in the tit-for-tat mode, which was yet another error. He could have slaughtered her but failed, which was more than a little disappointing. OTOH, Harris slaughtered herself with her inane, canned responses that talked a lot but said absolutely nothing, other than the subtext: "I am an imbecile ill equipped to shine your shoes, much less be POTUS".
The sad bit here is that that bitch is almost guaRONteed to be installed regardless of the actual vote. I hope I'm wrong on that point, but I see no real reason to think otherwise. After all, Trump has been very plain in expressing his intention to imprison a whole shit-ton of those people from both sides of the aisle. Unless Trump is in on a big sucker play with these jokers and they all know the plan, I see no incentive for the left other than they must defeat Trump at all costs, lest they end up on a gallows on Gitmo, which is where they belong. How could they take the chance on gambling that Trump is just talking big? I don't think I would. And so the likelihood if them not cheating is, IMO, vanishingly small... unless the polling places are hawked 24/7, in which case who can say what might be the result. OTOH, the voting machines remain a threat to election security.
We're in deep and dangerous waters. If the Ds win, Harris as mouthpiece is going to systematically dismantle the remains of this Republic. If we act against this, it may be civil war. If we don't, the bitch gets a free hand.
Dangerous waters, indeed.
ETA: Trump's performance leaves me once again wondering who he really is. It was clear he had no plan by which to proceed, especially knowing that the mods were certain to be helping Harris in every way. His failure to point out all of Harris' bullshit left me once again unsure of what it was I was witnessing. It becomes quite the stretch for me to trust him when in the wake of having destroyed Biden (with lots of help from Biden), he suddenly drops the ball with this nitwit cur. I grant that it was three v. one, but even though his final question to Harris left him victorious in terms of making valid points (Harris had not even a single one), the appearances were weak. I've said it before and I maintain that it holds: appearances count for a lot, if not everything.
This whole thing feels like a setup, and a really big one. I wish I could explain it away convincingly to myself, but I cannot. I want Trump to be what he advertises, imperfect as that might be, but I just cannot quite get there. At every opportunity he seems to miss the mark, even if only by a hair, but just as the sniper did the same, we see that the job to be accomplished remains incomplete.
Harris will likely become Prostitute in Chief and she and those with their fists up her bum will proceed in taking us apart such that it will boil down to fight or fold. Given our general performance during the covid scam, my hopes for an effective fight are just this side of zero.
Disgust doesn't cover it for me.