A lot of the #FakeNews analysts took away points for Trump's constant interrupting but I actually think that was a plus among his voterbase.
Trump didn't let Biden get away with lying, which was just about everything that came out of Biden's mouth. Trump would always interrupt Biden's lying to fact-check it, and often talked over the moderator to make the truth known.
Trump correctly reversed every "hit below the belt" scummy dishonest personal attack from Biden and the moderator, often using them to zing Biden and make him look bad.
Perhaps the biggest takeaway: Trump pushing the narrative that Biden had 47 years and didn't accomplish anything.
Biden was a terrible mess. He didn't know his facts, perpetually lied and quoted the #FakeNews, relied excessively on personal attacks based on #FakeNews, and claimed that Hunter Biden did nothing wrong (with regards to Russian/Chinese corruption) because "the media says he's innocent". LAWL. That arrogant attitude will only infuriate Trump supporters and convince them to vote #4MoreYears of #MAGA.
Trump followed the strategy I would recommend: Rile up his #MAGA voterbase and get out the vote. A lot of voters have made up their minds. Supposedly only 5-6% of the country is undecided. Moderates tend to swing left when push comes to shove; therefore Trump's best re-election bet involves maximizing voter turnout among existing supporters instead of moderating himself (making concessions or "acting nice") to win wishy-washy votes that might flip on an October surprise.
The whole race section was a journalistic hit job by boy shoulders Wallace that was also used by Bejing Biden in partial for his announcement for candidacy ten days after trump held a presser about Charlottesville. Wallace even repeated the lie of 'very fine people'
August 15, 2017
Reporter: "Mr. President, are you putting what you’re calling the alt-left and white supremacists on the same moral plane?"
Trump: "I’m not putting anybody on a moral plane. What I’m saying is this: You had a group on one side and you had a group on the other, and they came at each other with clubs -- and it was vicious and it was horrible. And it was a horrible thing to watch.
"But there is another side. There was a group on this side. You can call them the left -- you just called them the left -- that came violently attacking the other group. So you can say what you want, but that’s the way it is.
Reporter: (Inaudible) "… both sides, sir. You said there was hatred, there was violence on both sides. Are the --"
Trump: "Yes, I think there’s blame on both sides. If you look at both sides -- I think there’s blame on both sides. And I have no doubt about it, and you don’t have any doubt about it either. And if you reported it accurately, you would say."
Reporter: "The neo-Nazis started this. They showed up in Charlottesville to protest --"
Trump: "Excuse me, excuse me. They didn’t put themselves -- and you had some very bad people in that group, but you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides. You had people in that group. Excuse me, excuse me. I saw the same pictures as you did. You had people in that group that were there to protest the taking down of, to them, a very, very important statue and the renaming of a park from Robert E. Lee to another name."