Kamala Harris did just enough in the debate — with help from ABC

Going into Tuesday’s debate, Kamala Harris had a bigger challenge than Don­ald Trump. She had to comport herself in ways that would allow undecided voters to imagine her sitting in the Oval Office.

She passed that test. She was composed and mostly clear and there was nary a word salad to be heard.

That’s not to say she’s now on the path to victory. It’s simply that because of the unprecedented way and timing of how and when she got the party’s nomination, and because she would be the nation’s first female president, she had work to do with independent voters.

She did it sufficiently well to clear the threshold requirement of looking and sounding presidential, a test that Trump had to pass in 2016 in his first run for the prize.