With 24 hours having passed since the first presidential debate, it’s becoming clear that Trump won in a big way. It wasn’t an apparent victory, but it was a real one: He showed his base and ordinary Americans that he will always fight while forcing Biden to disavow both his hard-left base and the last of the old-fashioned Democrats who still support him.

Don’t pay too much attention to the pessimistic pundits. The worriers worried, the haters hated, the ambivalent were ambivalent, the cheerleaders cheered. Personality may not be destiny, but it determines post-debates reviews. You have to understand the pundits’ filters. Read Full Story

• The Hill: McConnell Tees Up Judicial Nominees Amid Supreme Court Standoff
• Washington Examiner: Tom Cotton Proposes Intel Office to Stop China From Stealing Food Technology
• Townhall: Joe Biden’s Vacant Debate (and Eyes)
• The Washington Free Beacon: House GOP Calls for Moving Vital Industries From China to America
• PJ Media: It’s Time Democrats Are Asked to Condemn Some Things

President Donald Trump and his allies dunked on Chris Wallace after Tuesday night’s acrimonious presidential debate in Cleveland, accusing the Fox News host of acting as a second debater along with former Vice President Joe Biden.

The rebukes from Trump and his most loyal allies come after a stunning debate that featured repeated interruptions and personal invectives — which Wallace called out and tried to tame as the debate’s moderator, with little success. Read Full Story

• The Hill: Trump Nominated 3rd Time for Nobel Peace Prize
• Washington Examiner: Left Explodes When Republicans Nominate Women, Blacks, or Latinos
• PJ Media: Debate Recap: Trump Wins, Biden Doesn’t Faint, Chris Wallace Goes Down Hard
• Townhall: Biased Media
• American Thinker: Want More Evidence of Hidden Trump Surge?

Mail-in voting, which is banned in most countries based on its huge potential for fraud (some of which came from bitter experience), has been promoted by Democrats and in the press, as risk-free. 

President Donald Trump’s effort to sound the alarm about the potential for mail-in fraud is always editorialized with the phrase with additives such as “without evidence,” or “pushing the false claim.” Read Full Story

• The Hill: Pompeo Blasts Media Coverage of Trump Foreign Policy
• Reuters: SCOTUS Nominee Barrett Would Have Final Say on Recusal Calls
• The Washington Times: Trump: Obamacare ‘Already Essentially Gone’
• Washington Examiner: Lindsey Graham Hints at Significant Declassification Related to Russia Investigation
• PJ Media: Left Law Prof: Amy Coney Barrett ‘Is Going to Be a Good Justice’