Everyone lost in the first presidential debate

Drained of all policy substance, the debate was a disaster for Biden, an embarrassment for CNN, and par for the course for a truth-challenged Trump.

In the closing moments of the first 2024 presidential debate on Thursday night, president Joe Biden and former president Donald Trump were each asked versions of the same elephant-in-the-room question: Given that they would be 86 and 82, respectively, at the end of a prospective second term in office, what would they say to voters who are...