And a large number see Biden’s performance differently than you do.

My second two reasons are not serious, but the first two are.

His voice was gone and it was hard to hear him. It exasperated the perception of a weak old man and people have used it to jump on the “Biden is too old bandwagon.”
The attacks on him continue to be so unfair, even cruel.

Asked if he's too old, 83% say he's too old. They are both too old, but 91% will still vote for Biden.

Politics can be an emotional game and appearances are often much more important to the masses than content.

If presidential races were solely about substance and ideas, Trump would have been laughed off the stage in 2015. Alas, they are not, and we are all poorer for it.

It was evident in the transcript.

Seth Abramson had a long article about the debate I think yesterday on his Substack, and made it a point to note how hard Biden works for the American people. He worked too hard when he went to Europe right before the debate, and he paid the price with his cold and his laryngitis. Abramson has lots of links of videos showing Trump's clear mental decline. While Alzheimer's disease isn't linked to heredity from what I have been able to find out, it is important to note his father, Fred, Sr., had it though he died of pneumonia.

I don’t know the total time each had for answers. So can’t break down minutes per lies. But that doesn’t seem to matter at least in the medias eyes. So the media doesn’t care how many lies. Just does it make a catchy lead. Everyone already knows he lies constantly so old news.

If they wanted some kind of honest review they would bring that up at least as much if not more since at least to most honest people that should matter.

Abramson documented every single lie Trump told in that debate and documented those lies in his Substack newsletter.

On every article in the news.

The content of President Biden's responses was accurate and actually made great points.

Link to tweet

No one reads the transcripts. It doesn't matter that he used formal English.

by the media. They hyped it for weeks as a debate, and then scored it as a performance. A few people did read the transcript, at least here on DU. And my second two points were meant to be funny--I thought we could all use a small laugh. (Curses! Foiled again!) Biden, then, had to play by the rules, of debate, of serious government, of formal public communication. the trump creature was, as he always has been, unconstrained by any rules. He could say whatever he wanted. In fact, the "reviews" of Biden's "performance" were lousy reviews, since there was no mention of his opponent's performance, and no specifics of what Biden messed up. Those who looked at the whole debate, or read the transcripts, didn't think the President had anything to apologize for at all. But the media are playing to their base, who don't do transcripts, are a little fuzzy on what debates are, and have attention spans of six seconds, tops.

Republican strategist Lee Atwater once said, “Perception is reality.” Corporate media understands this concept all too well; their reporting mostly consists of creating perceptions to influence viewers. They want voters' perceptions of Biden's performance to matter more than what he (and Trump) actually said during the debate.

But I read the transcript and Joe definitely won.