The debate stage wasn’t glitzy—and it was bad news for Trump

If there’s one word that could be used to describe the debate stage where Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump met on Tuesday, it’s demure. The dark blue set at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia was designed to look serious and unassuming—a neutral, subdued setting for the candidates competing to become America’s 47th president. It didn’t demand attention because that wasn’t its job; and the setting ultimately played to the strengths of the...