Good morning. I'm James Holman from the Washington Post and this is the Daily

202 for Wednesday, September 30th. In today's news, ICE prepares targeted

pre-election arrests of immigrants to

amplify President Trump's re-election message.

USPS workers quietly resist the Postmaster General's

changes to make sure ballots get delivered on time.

And Michael Flynn's lawyer personally briefed the President on his case.

But first, the big idea. No one alive has ever seen a presidential debate like

Tuesday night's unseemly shout-fest between Trump and Joe Biden.

It was 90 minutes of invective interruptions and personal insults.

Our chief correspondent Dan Balls, who's been covering politics for us since the early 1970s,

describes it as an insult to the American people, a sad example of the state of democracy five weeks before the election.

On the margins, the debate probably did more to help Biden than the president,

at a moment when Trump desperately needed to change the shape and trajectory of the race.

But that's not what people will remember. Even partisans locked into

their choices were probably dispirited at what they witnessed. One can only

imagine what the next two debates between these two men will look like.

For decades, these general election debates

have provided Americans with the opportunity

to measure the candidates in an open form,

with moderators aiming to stay out of the way whenever possible.

They've always included showmanship and

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