 egregiously, really. He was needlessly rude. He probably turned off some voters he could have used. But it would be a stretch to say that that debate was a turning point in the election, that it was some sort of a pivotal moment, a point of inflection. It wasn't. COVID drove the 2020 election, pure and simple. You know, and absent the pandemic, Trump would have won that race going away, I believe. But this debate, like the first televised debate between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon, this debate will never be forgotten.