I don't have polling data so this is just "personal vibes", but I get the impression that left-leaning people like me thought that the last debate was going to

I don't have polling data so this is just "personal vibes", but I get the impression that left-leaning people like me thought that the last debate was going to be more or less like the 2020 debates, where Trump ends up looking like a blabbering idiot and Biden comes off as reasonably snappy and charming, and that the election might be another shoe-in for Biden. I think the statement of "Trump won the debate" largely boils down to the fact that nearly every left leaning person who watched it turned it off feeling like "holy fuck looks like we're getting another four years of Trump". Having watched it, it's not like Trump got "better" in any regard, he's still a blabbering idiot (maybe even more than in 2020), but he didn't "disappoint" me like Biden did this last time.