On Tuesday, Vice President Harris and former President Trump faced off in what, as of right now, stands to be the only debate between the two nominees.

Kamala, Harris, it's up a good debate.

You see, have fun. Thank you. Harris had a's up a good debate. You see, you have fun.

Thank you.

Harris had a bit of a slow start, but then she managed to drive Trump off the rails, triggering

him with talk of crowd size.

By the end of the debate, it was obvious to most observers, including this one, that there was a clear winner.

But will it matter on election day?

Next.

This is Washington Week with the Atlantic.

Good evening and welcome to Washington week where tonight we will not make a single joke about cats or dogs because we are a serious show about the

once serious business of a serious city.

I'm so old that I can remember a time when you can get through an entire presidential campaign without once hearing about

immigrant cat eating or the relative death-dealing qualities of sharks and boat batteries or windmills

and their relationship to bacon shortages.

I'm not complaining, I'm just observing.

Tonight we'll talk about Tuesday's debate and how Kamala Harris

exceeded expectations and how Donald Trump ended the week by saying essentially not going to do that

again. We're 53 days out from the election and I'll discuss the state of the race with

Ashley Parker, the senior national political

correspondent for the Washington Post. Eugene Daniels, a White House

correspondent for political and co-author of Playbook. Jerusalem Dempsis, my

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