From New York Times, I'm Michael Bobaro. This is the Daily.

Today, in their first and possibly only presidential debate,

Kamala Harris dominated and possibly only presidential debate,

Kamala Harris dominated and enraged Donald Trump

and made a night that could have been about her record,

instead into a night about his temperament.

My colleague political correspondent Jonathan Swan walks us through how it unfolded.

It's Wednesday, September 11th. Jonathan, good evening.

Michael, how are you?

I'm okay.

I mean, it's late.

It's very late.

It is damn near midnight and we appreciate you being willing to stay up with us.

Always happy to be here. So, Jonathan, this debate was described beforehand by you in the paper of record and the

Times as the most important 90 minutes in American politics in generations.

So I just want to ask you why even before it began, in your estimation it merited that string

of superlatives. Well now you say it I think we

might have gone a bit overboard on that because the Biden the Biden debate you

know knocked him out and he dropped out so, probably that one goes down to you know.

No, but I'm being a little facetious.

Look, the reason it was so unusually important is that so rarely these days

do you have a candidate that there are so many voters who are still curious about them and haven't made

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