TRUMP ALTERS THE WAY THE REST OF THE FIELD IS PERCEIVED: “He makes everyone else look boring; he also makes everyone else look responsible, polite and grown-up,” Jim Geraghty wrote last night.

As some were suggesting before the debate, this would have been the perfect opportunity from Trump to surprise everyone and after weeks of bomb-throwing, play the grown-up himself, full of well thought-out ideas on how he would govern; but for better or worse, once again, the real Trump was behind the podium.