During Tuesday’s presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, a pattern emerged in which the vice president sometimes stretched the truth and sought to reframe her political weaknesses as strengths and the former president fired off a flurry of demonstrably false statements.

Poll shows vice president’s debate success “appears to be crystalizing her national lead over the former president”

While it’s still early, there is enough initial polling to suggest that Harris’s strong debate performance did her some significant good.