Her performance reminds me of that of Mike Dukakis in 1988. Clinical, very wonkish, no passion. Spouting cliches and memorized sound bites. She's not laying a glove on Donald Trump.
Polls and focus groups will show later tonight that she gained no traction. Trump is leading this race and he'll build upon his lead in the days ahead.
I hope you’re right.
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.