Posted on 09/25/2016 5:03:16 AM PDT by nikos1121
ON THE OCCASION OF THE FIRST DEBATE BETWEEN
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
Donald John Trump
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY, HEMPSTEAD, NY
9 PM MONDAY SEPTEMBER 26, 2016
The 90 minute debate will be divided into six time segments of approximately 15 minutes each on major topics to be selected by the moderator and announced at least one week before the debate. The moderator will open each segment with a question, after which each candidate will have two minutes to respond. Candidates will then have an opportunity to respond to each other. The moderator will use the balance of the time in the segment for a deeper discussion of the topic.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics.html
Q: Who do you think won Monday’s presidential debate?
34% Hillary Clinton
48% Donald Trump
18% No-one won
Trump did just fine. He made no blunders in this debate and his opponents couldn't lay a glove on him. He's winning this election.
For weeks leading up to this debate, many here were stressed out that the moderators and mainstream media would find a way to rattle Trump into making a blunder that would destroy his candidacy. That did not happen. That did not even come close to happening.
This is a man who survived a grueling primary campaign with 16 other candidates. Back in April, many doubters were telling us that he had "no path" to the nomination and that he was being outsmarted and outmaneuvered by Ted Cruz and the establishment Republicans who didn't want him. We heard about how he had no "ground game."
Then when he secured the necessary amount of delegates (1700+ actually), we endured weeks of these same doubters telling us that anti-Trump forces would conspire to keep him from getting nominated at the convention.
Than post-convention, we kept hearing from these same nervous wrecks that Trump was blowing the general election because he wasn't running TV ads while Shrillary spent over $200 million running ads against him.
Now Trump has moved into the lead nationally and by many measures and has multiple paths to the necessary 270 electoral votes falling into place.
After this debate performance, would not be surprised to see Trump gain an additional 3-5 points in the week ahead.
You’re exactly right. Most of the anti-Trump low-info types buy the media spin that he’s this boorish, sexist misanthrope. If he’d have come on too strong tonight and wailed on Hillary, as it appears most here wanted him to do, he would have reinforced that stereotype. I think he did well avoiding that trap.
Rommney won the first debate against O and then threw it all away.
Trump needs a MASSIVE amount of prep time for tghe next one and a whole LOT of help. I hope to GOD that he gets it!
Trump bracketed Hillary tonight. He made his general points and watched what her responses were, where she was weak, where she got rattled. Hillary’s people tried to do the same thing, but it was pointless, because Trump’s not hiding anything and Hillary is.
Next debate, he tightens the noose.
I did watch the Reagan debate in 1980, and although I wanted Carter to win, I recall sensing that Reagan just “glowed” during his closing statement. (Didn’t vote for Jimmuh, so no, I don’t have that on my conscience)
No such sense tonight. Just a profound sense of being left unsatisfied.
Maybe Trump will actually prepare for Round 2 and focus on hitting several major points no matter how the debate goes ...
Both fighters standing after Round 1 - Hitlary profoundly unsatisfying, mendacious and smug, Trump not quite “closing the sale” yet ...
-There is a certain percentage of voters who (somehow) have not decided how to vote. Hillary has been telling these people that Trump is a maniac, a crazy man, a very dangerous person.... I think that all he had to do in this debate was to appear as if he belonged on the same stage as her. I think he definitely succeeded in doing that. He had the momentum coming into this debate and I do not see anything that happened tonight changing that. So it goes in the win column.-
Exactly. All Trump has to do is appear sane and he will win. Hillary is really not well liked at all and no one wants the Clinton’s around for another 20 years.
You just made the argument about WHY the public hates professional politicians. Good job!
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Guys cool it or the moderators will take action.
People remember only Good/Bad.
I think it will be: Trump-Good, Hitlery-Bad.
I love the look on Lester’s face: “Why are you touching Her Majesty?”
I must say, though. I think the crowd was mostly in Trump’s corner. If they weren’t the majority, they sounded like they were.
Caww:
Check out post 3922 and 4277
You can see the bulge (the bottom bulge..lol) in your photo that broken_clock is talking about but not the wire running down her back.
The image broken_clock saw on his TV happened when she was leaning over to greet some people and the jacket was stretched tight.
This was the whole point for Mr. Trump. To come across as authentic, regardless of “Bombastic” or “Outrageous” statements.
Mr. Trump coming off as a “real” person vs the manufactured persona of most politicians, especially Clinton, was the most important “optic” of this debate.
The polls over the next few days, manufactured or not, should be interesting.
That line should be tattooed to the inside of his eyelids before tomorrow is over. He HAS to make her look like someone trying to "trick" people instead of answer them.
LOL! True THAT! There are no independents.
I so agree.
Which means, in the real world, Trump is up by 4 or 5.
TRUMPSLIDE!
That happens November 8! Booyah!
True! He got some trial by fire, and he is a quick student. Plus he's got ad campaign coming, and the campaign doesn't stop between the end of the first debate and the start of the second one. All the opportunities he missed tonight, he will remember very well. He will dream about this debate, and each time he will do better.
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