How could he get any worse? He has now (over two debates) called the primary electorate “heartless racists.” What’s next, will he call us NAZI’s and still expect our vote?
I don’t think it can get any worse. I would have written that response much differently.
The question is can he salvage it and make it better. I am not sure which way that might go. The killing of Bin Laden is now almost irrelevant just a few months after it happened - so I tend not to think any one single event will be totally determinative. And FTR, he did not say racists. You added that.