that wins elections. We shall see.

All right, let's talk about the big debate last night. I'm sure you all saw it, and I have many thoughts on that in no particular order. Number one, Pence won. It wasn't even close in my opinion. Pence dominated in terms of personality. He dominated in terms of better points. I've been telling you — how many times have I told you? — the most underrated public servant is Mike Pence. I don't think pundits and experts fully understand how good that was last night. Because what you notice are mistakes, right? Those are the things that get your attention. You look for moments. You look for knockout punches. You look for mistakes. But that's not Pence's game. Pence is a boxer who's going to win on points every time. You're not going to get a knockout because Pence doesn't give any vulnerabilities, so there's never a knockout. But he will win on points if you hang in there with him. So I think that's what happened. He won easily on points.

You also have CNN's new technology. It was kind of impressive. So CNN now has a drone that's so small and shaped like a fly, and they flew it into the debate stage and landed it right on Mike Pence's head to try to distract him. But he's so cool it didn't even bother him that a CNN fly drone was on his head. Didn't even slow him down a bit. That's how good Mike Pence is at debating.

When you watch him debate, he felt more like a surgeon, didn't he? Because where Trump was sort of like a cannon, if you think about it — it didn't matter what Biden did. It was sort of irrelevant what Biden was doing in the debate. Trump was just a cannon: boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Just offense, offense, offense. But watching Pence work, it was like watching a surgeon. It's like, well, here's your claim. Let's look at your claim. Let's dissect it. Let's take this part off. He was deadly, and I don't think he made a mistake.

Think about the fact that of all the coverage this morning, there is zero, zero commentary on anything that Pence did wrong. Nothing. They're talking about the fly that landed on his head because that's all they have. They're reduced to talking about the insects on the building. That's it. That is winning a debate. You don't win a debate harder than making your critics talk about the insect on the building. That's a win.

I wonder who was the staffer who got the job of telling Kamala Harris what she did wrong last night, because that feels like a tough job. And I would like to give you my impression of the staffer who drew the short straw to explain to Kamala what her biggest weakness was in the debate last night. And it goes like this:

"Uh, Miss Harris, do you have a moment? I'd just like to talk about some of the things you did right and maybe some things that could have been better in the debate last night, if you have a minute."

"Why sure, I'm always open for feedback. What do you think I did right? And if I did anything wrong, I'd like to hear that too."

"Well, um, on your lies, your lies were excellent. You had lots of good lies and we thought those were good. You really landed those. But in general, in terms of your overall presentation, we thought you were excellent from, well, I'd say from the chin down. From the chin down, all good. Really good. From the chin up, there's a little bit of an issue. I don't want to make a big thing about it, but there are some facial expressions that are suboptimal in the context of a national debate, a televised debate."

And Harris says, "Really? Facial expressions? I don't exactly know what you're talking about. Can you be more specific?"

"Oh, I was hoping you wouldn't ask me to be more specific. Sometimes you look maybe a little condescending. A little bit. Maybe your smile is a little too big."

And Harris says, "I'm not really following you. What would a condescending look look like? And what do you mean I smile too much? What do you mean?"

"Okay, the only way I'm going to be able to convey this is maybe I'm going to try to do an impression of you. And don't take this the wrong way, but this is the sort of facial expression we'd like to see more of. Let me demonstrate. See, this would be a comfortable, confident smile like this. You want to do more of that. And then less of this. Try to do less of that, okay?"

And Kamala would say, "Anything else?"

"Yeah, yeah. The condescending thing. You can sometimes, if the other person is saying something you don't like, here's a good way to go. Just look down and just give your head a little shake like, 'Gosh, that's not true.' Because that conveys to the audience that you're confident and you're signaling that the other person's statement is not exactly accurate. Just a little bit of a side to side like that. So we want to see more of that and less of this. Yeah, let's see this face. Do less of that one and more of this one."

"Okay, got it."

And then the staffer would be fired. So that's the way I think that went.

And as long as we're all going to be accused of being sexist — you accept that, right? We're all going to be accused of being sexist if you say anything at all about Kamala Harris. But it is a fact that overall impression and the way you look, your height, your hair, your presentation, it matters because people are influenced by your character as you present it as much as your policies. And in that totally non-sexist framing that I'm giving you, it has to be said that she was having a bad hair day. Now this might be somewhat subjective, but I would like to start by saying Kamala Harris usually has very good hair days. In fact, I would say that as a female politician she has really excellent hair to the point where I would say it's a plus most of the time. And she has a variety of different looks for her hair, which is normal. And most of them, I would say nine out of ten of her hairstyles, I would say that's pretty good. Pretty good.

Whatever she did with her hair last night, I don't know if she was happy with it. But I have this question to the women watching this live stream. So instead of making a statement, I'll put it in the form of a question. If you were a woman and you're debating on TV and you feel in your own mind, just your own opinion, that you're having a terrible hair day, what's that do to your performance? Very sexist, right? Now obviously no two people are alike. Some women don't care about their hair, blah blah blah. We're all individuals. I get it. But that's why I'm asking the question. Women, how would you feel if in your own opinion, not other people's, just your own opinion, you were going on stage and you were having a terrible hair day? Because I feel like maybe that was happening last night. Did anybody else have that impression? That she generally has — I would say some of the best hairstyles of any woman politician. But last night, no. There was something going on last night with her hair that wasn't good. And it matters. It matters if it affected how she felt about it. It matters if it affected her confidence. And maybe it did. We don't know.

Now you all know that the big excitement for me, if you saw my tweet especially, is that when I saw Kamala Harris cue up the fine people hoax — in other words, she was going to claim yet again that the president had said that neo-Nazis and white supremacists were fine people, which is literally the opposite of what happened. As you know, he said the opposite. He called them out by name and said they should be condemned totally. But Biden has made that the centerpiece of his campaign. The very trigger for his campaign. The reason he had to enter politics when maybe he was past his prime was that this fine people hoax was sort of the last straw for him. And it never happened. It's just a complete made-up hoax.

Now as soon as Kamala queued it up, and I believe that Pence had a little bit of a tell where I think he shook his head in the way that you should to signal that there's something wrong going on, and I jumped off the couch and I tweeted, "Do it, Pence, do it." Because he looked like a coiled snake, didn't he? He looked like you could see Kamala talking about the fine people hoax and I'm looking at Pence, and in my mind he actually transformed from this vice president-looking guy into a coiled cobra. Like I could almost see it. It was visual. He just morphed into this coiled cobra. And that's what got me off the couch. I saw that look and I said, okay, that look is a coiled cobra. He's gonna go for this. And then he did. Magnificent bastard. He did. He went right after it. And he did a really good job. He said this is why the public doesn't trust the press, because it's exactly this kind of thing. And then he went on to say how they edited out the part where he said explicitly that he condemned the white nationalists and neo-Nazis. And it was perfect.

Now that's not the good part. The good part is what happens next. Because you know that the debates are always fact-checked and any major claim is going to be fact-checked, right? So a major claim like that, where Kamala says this happened and Pence says it didn't happen, that obviously is going to be on the list of fact-checking things on CNN, right? Let me check. Okay, CNN. Let's see where you fact-check the fine people hoax. Not there. They ignored it. MSNBC. Let's see. I don't even have to check, do I? I don't have to check. They ignored it. And I haven't checked, so if it turns out I'm wrong I will be amazed. But I'm making this claim without even looking. Without even looking, I make the following claim: they did not try to fact-check it.

However, in another country that we're very fond of — it's called Great Britain — they've got this news organization called the BBC and they fact-checked it. And they fact-checked it in favor of Pence. And they gave him a full true rating for calling the fine people hoax a hoax. They fact-checked Pence as true. Boom. Now not the only ones. There were some lesser publications that also did it. And of course Breitbart's been doing it forever. You know, Joel Pollak's been doing it. Steve Cortes has been debunking it with videos and articles for two years. I've been doing it for two years. So the three of us — Joel and Steve and I — who probably worked the hardest on debunking that damn thing were feeling pretty good last night. Feeling pretty good. Because it felt like vindication. It did. It's what it felt like. And I believe that the Trump campaign also has tweeted out some of the fact-checking on that.

So are we done? Here's the fun part coming up. This has opened up a line of attack that for whatever reason President Trump had not been taking before. And here's how it goes. Once you've got the fact-checking established, so now that the hoax has been debunked and nobody has done an undebunking — in other words, there's only debunking and there's silence. That's all there was. Nobody was supporting it. Oh, and by the way, as if you saw the video of Kamala's while Pence was debunking it, watch her face. Because remember, when somebody is saying something in a debate that the other side believes is a false statement, what do they do? If it's not your turn to talk and somebody else is lying, you always do the head shake. You go, "Ah." Wait, was it my turn? Did she do that when Pence was debunking the main claim of the Biden campaign, the central claim of his campaign? Pence was debunking it. And what did Kamala Harris do? She looked down. That's it. She just looked down. She looked like a kid who got caught in the candy jar. Because she was. And it also signaled to me clearly that she knows it wasn't true. That's the good part. The good part is she signaled so clearly that she knows it's not true. Because you don't act that way if somebody debunks the most important thing of your campaign. You don't just look down. You resist. You talk over them. You throw in a little debunk when it's your time to talk again. You shake your head. You make a face. You do something. If the central claim of your campaign has been taken out by the other side, you don't just sit there and look down unless you knew it was a lie all along. And that's increasingly obvious.

All right. I think the president could take that momentum and next time he has a chance he could just say, look, the central claim of the Biden campaign is the fine people hoax. It was debunked by the BBC. It was debunked by everybody who looked into it. It was debunked by Breitbart. Anybody who looked into it debunked it. There was no counter to that last night. So I think the president could drive that home and it would really matter.

The big story of course is also the sexism. The misogyny. Was there sexism and misogyny last night? Pence was talking over his time and sometimes talking over Kamala Harris. Was he mansplaining, as some people said? Was he being a big old bully? Was he just being a terrible man? Well, I don't think that complaint is working quite the way the defenders of Kamala Harris wanted it to. Because the only thing that could be worse than losing a debate is losing a debate and then claiming that the reason was sexism. Because the whole country looked at that and said, I don't think so. I watched that debate. I know what sexism looks like. And then I watched this. That's not what I saw. And even the women Democrats who would support Kamala Harris in general, even they were saying, oh, slow your roll on the sexism thing. That's not what we saw. And the women who, to their credit, were trying to be non-political in the sense of being accurate, they said another woman would have been able to handle that situation. True. Fact check true.

Imagine Hillary Clinton in the same situation. Does Hillary Clinton get bulldozed? Nope. Nope. Imagine Margaret Thatcher. Does she get bulldozed? Probably not. Imagine Elizabeth Warren. Does she get bulldozed in that situation? I don't think so. I don't think so. It felt like it was a Kamala Harris situation. It didn't feel like it was a man-woman situation. Even women didn't feel that. So I think she lost terribly. Like really badly. And some people tried to say that she looked presidential. I'm going to talk about some of the comments after. But in my mind she lost some presidential credibility. Because if she couldn't stand up to a vice president who's one of the nicest guys in the world on the other side of two sheets of plexiglass, if that was too much for her to handle, how is she going to handle Putin? How is she going to handle Xi, etc. So I think she really hurt herself. Especially because people see her as the top of the ticket. And she looked unqualified in my opinion.

And I realize that her supporters said the opposite. They said, oh yeah, she's very presidential looking. There I didn't see it. The facial thing and the sort of complaining and sort of the letting him bully her — because she didn't let him. She allowed it to happen. None of that looked good. And none of that looked presidential. And the facial expressions, they looked unusually unpresidential. In fact, I would go so far as to say I'm not aware of anybody who's ever run for president, male or female, who got to a high level. Let's say I can't think of one example of anyone whose mannerisms were less presidential than Kamala Harris. I can't think