had to get this off my chest...
Don't fall into that trap. Ryan lost the debate with Biden, but Biden was rather disrespectful. I guess the Veep debates are more unstructured; that is what I saw.
Trump did not lose in any way except he missed opportunities to destroy her.
To put it simply, he wins if the debate nets him more votes. His target audience was undecided voters. To sway them, all he had to prove to them was that he isn’t an unpredictable, heartless brute. I think he accomplished that easily.
Hillary did good.
She was sober, alert and apparently healthy. Plus she had lengthy answers ready to each question (curiously enough).
That said, she also came off as rather humorless and lecturing. Plus that attempt to suggest Trump was hiding something by shrugging her shoulders shows she’s also an even worse actor than Madonna (if that’s possible).
Trump left a lot of targets unattacked, he’s got to be more on-focus for #2.
UPI/CVoter state polls: Donald Trump ahead of Hillary Clinton in Electoral College
Between the rigged microphone and the extremely biased moderator, the whole da$& debate was rigged to make Trump look bad. He needs to tell the liberal MSM to eff off and no more debates unless there are rules to keep him from being made to look bad.
I have been posting here consistently since last year that “debates” should be abolished. I think they are a terrible idea, terribly executed, and can’t be fixed.
That having been said, the idea, so popular here, that a snake like HDR would fold in that environment was always ridiculous. That environment was designed and engineered for people exactly like her.
As bold as my boy Donald is, as good as he is when the red light comes on, his first ever “Presidential debate” had to be preceded by a “sh*t’s gettin’ REAL” moment.
I didn’t watch, I don’t care, I’m willing to crawl over broken glass to vote for him - but the expectations game here was absurd - and maybe, like Doc Hollliday in “Tombstone”, she wasn’t as sick as she let on.
Trump did not need to win the debates in the usual sense of punch counter punch. That was not the game here. Trump simply needed to look reasonable and safe. He accomplished that in spades.
Trump simply needed to look more favorable than Hillary. Trump’s unfavorables will go down more than Hillary.
That is all he set out to do. Too many people do not understand this especially the concern trolls. Trump was after becoming more likable so that those who cannot stand Hillary have a reason to vote for Trump.
Trump gave them that reason tonight. Look for Trump to cross 50% in the next few weeks in that LA poll.
Rope-a-dope,
Hitlery did good,
Trumps first debate,,,,
I listened to the entire painful mess,
Trump did His job with class and strength.
Hitlery was a grinding Woodchipper.
I can imagine polls showing Hillary won the debate yet Trump continues to creep up in election polls, much to the anguish of the media.
Time to triple down and ensure that Trump has the dollars to wage the war over the next 5+ weeks...
GO TRUMP!
I watched the debate last night. Trump was great! He came across as a successful businessman who is NOT A POLITICIAN. Cankles looked like something out of a horror movie with her smirking & arrogant attitude. I expect Trump’s poll numbers to continue rising. He’s going to be President!!!
Vote Trump 2016
I did watch with great interest. Trump absolutely won. He came off as intently passionate about making things better. Hilary came off as indifferent to the American people but obsessed with personal slander of Trump.
Rudy Giuliani was on Fox & Friends pointing out how Lester Holt continued the legacy of Candy Crowley by jumping into the debate to challenge Trump’s “Stop and Frisk” remarks. Holt said it had been found unconstitutional, which is wrong. Hillary, who failed her bar exam, also agreed with “journalist” Holt’s incorrect legal opinion.
Trump should make an ad correcting this lie that Holt told to help Hillary.
I absolutely can not stand Hillary; that being said, I thought she won. She looked ‘Presidential’ to the ignorant sheep and he looked argumentative. We may have seen the death of nationalism and the 2nd Amendment last night.
All Trump has to do to win is not back down on immigration.
Gotcha debates mean nothing.
Howard Dean said Trump was on Coke.
lOL.