The presidential debate marks a major moment in the race for the White House, and Donald Trump comes under scrutiny for conspiracy theories.

On that and more of the week's news, we turn to the analysis of Capehart and Puneuru.

That's Jonathan Kpart, Associate Editor for the Washington Post and Ramesh Pannuru, editor for National Review.

David Brooks is away.

Great to have you both here.

Thanks.

So three days after that first debate between Vice President Harris,

former President Trump, there's only one poll that we've seen so far conducted in the

days after.

It gives us a limited view of the impact.

So now we see Vice President Harris up with 47 percent to Trump's 42% nationally in the latest Reuters Ipsos poll.

Jonathan, it's hard to say just yet what the impact of the debate will be.

We hope there'll be more polls coming up soon.

But the Harris campaign clearly feels good about what happened.

I guess the question is, did she do enough in the debate to answer

questions that voters had about who she is as a leader and her policies?

Well, for being honest, yes and no. And the Harris campaign should be excited about where things

are. They went into the debate with the momentum at their back, and her performance arguably

was superb. And on the one hand, she answered questions that people had because Donald Trump

and Republicans spent a lot of time degrading her, questioning her intelligence, questioning her

abilities, questioning her accomplishments,

downplaying the fact that she's run for elective office citywide in San Francisco,

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