Seems like the speech did damage in the media

[DFab420]

Commentators on CNN and MSNBC are confounded and Chris Wallace even said “well its a race again”

[The Wandering Harper]

1. It didn't seem substantially different than any of his others I've seen

maybe a bit more crass than most.
Media's trying to WWE the whole campaign.
They made and/or amplified the big stink about Biden's debate performance,
then they're like
"uh oh, he's starting to sink, now we gotta hobble the other guy some to make it a ratings-worthy contest again"

[JI7]

2. I didn't watch it but from what people are saying

I'm wondering how it's different from all the other times.

[LeftInTX]

3. It isn't

There was alot of hype that Trump was going to "turn a new leaf"...But naah, not as angry, but he traded some of the anger for babbling. So it came out about the same.
He even started talking about Hannibal Lector and people coming out in covered wagons. That thing lasted 1 and 1/2 hours. I thought he was gonna recite history of the US. It was short on policy. Any policy was a rehashing of old stuff. He talked mostly about nothing.

Speech thread is here:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=19184974