Bartlet For America 1998 shirt

On a night of simultaneous town halls on rival TV channels, Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden played out the roles of the aggrieved incumbent and comfortable front-runner after the cancellation of their second debate. As a metaphor for a divided America, Thursday night was just about perfect. In a starkly polarized nation, voters could tune in to the channel where their candidate was saying exactly what they wanted to hear.