Trump claims ‘big victory’ over Biden despite lying in debate

 
INA-sources
 
Donald Trump wasted no time bringing up Thursday’s debate at a rally in Virginia on Friday.

“Hello, Virginia,” he opened to a crowd in Chesapeake. “Did anybody last night watch a thing called the debate?”
The former president said he scored a “big victory” over Joe Biden in a debate that, from its outset, showed the Democratic president failing to make coherent points. Biden spent a week at Camp David preparing to debate and got the rules, date and moderators he wanted, Trump said, but it did not help.
“He studied so hard that he didn’t know what the hell he was doing,” Trump said. “No amount of rest or rigging could help him defend his atrocious record.”
 
Trump lied profusely during the debate, skirting questions about his role in the January 6 insurrection and political violence. But he outperformed Biden on the optics, landing insults and pivoting to talk about what he wanted, with light moderation by CNN.
Biden’s performance led Democrats to contemplate publicly whether he could be replaced as the Democratic candidate at such a late date. Some Biden defenders - and Biden himself - have since sought to reassure that the debate was just one bad performance and not indicative of his ability to lead, or representative of his policy record.
Source: the Guardian