These sentiments were echoed throughout.
It was not a night to have a cold.
His ease is his trump card, wrote Liberation.
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Some publications went surprisingly easy on Trump.
Before Thursday evening, many Americans had expressed concerns about Joe Bidens age and fitness for office.
Canadas CBC was similar to the BBC in its praise of Trump.
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He also repeatedly spewed false claims about abortion, the environment, and the border.
Some press toed a more balanced line.
The South China Morning Post was even handed.
The two presented starkly different visions for Americas place in the world in a high-stakes debate, it added.
ABC in Australia was impressed by neither in equal measure.
While Biden had a brain fade, the paper wrote, his opponent blustered and deflected.
Now its up to Jill to convince her husband to leave, it wrote.
The UKs Daily Telegraph focused on Biden facing calls to quit.
This wasnt a debate, it was a medical emergency, wrote columnists Tim Stanley and Tony Diver.
But the public omerta on that topic broadly held up.
That cognitive dissonance has now collapsed.
The story is now about whether Biden can be persuaded to step down.
