Black Orchid wrote on Sep 27^th, 2016 at 6:17pm:


So you watched 20 minutes of it and you are sticking your oar in the water?

I missed the first part but the consensus is that that was where Trump did his finest work.

By the time i tuned in he was a blathering mess...  generally agreed upon.

He shouted over the moderator,  made outrageous claims,  lied through his teeth and blew his own trumpet.

Hillary has been almost unanimously been handed the win.  It was a resounding victory.  Trump came out looking like a combative,  narcissistic imbecile.

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THE BIG IDEA: The consensus that Donald Trump badly lost the first debate gelled overnight. Liberals predictably panned the GOP nominee’s performance on Long Island, but some of the harshest reviews are coming from conservative thought leaders who had been starting to come around.

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Republican pollster Frank Luntz conducted a focus group of undecided voters in Pennsylvania. Sixteen said Hillary Clinton won. Five picked Trump, per CBS News.

In a Florida focus group organized by CNN, 18 of 20 undecided voters picked Clinton as the winner.

Not one of 29 undecided voters in an Ohio focus group organized by Park Street Strategies thought Trump prevailed, while 11 picked Clinton and the rest said neither. By a two-to-one margin, the group thought Clinton had the better tone and, by a three-to-one margin, they thought she came across as more knowledgeable candidate on the issues.

A CNN/ORC flash poll found that 62 percent said the Democrat won, compared to 27 percent who picked Trump. That’s on par with 2012, when Mitt Romney was seen as the winner of the first debate.

In a separate instant-poll from the Democratic firm Public Policy Polling, 51 percent said Clinton won and 40 percent picked Trump.

Eight in 10 insiders in the key battleground states thought Clinton performed better, including 57 percent of Republicans, according to the Politico Caucus survey.
Trump complains of 'defective mic' after first debate
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Trump’s surrogates in the spin room were downbeat, and the candidate himself has already begun making excuses: “They gave me a defective mic,” he complained to reporters during a gaggle. “Did you notice that? My mic was defective within the room. I wonder, was that on purpose?” There was no clear problem with his microphone during the debate, Jose DelReal notes.

Trump was supposed to stop by the Nassau County Republican Committee’s watch party on his way home. He skipped it. Clinton, meanwhile, celebrated with hundreds of supporters in Westbury.

And Rudy Giuliani, a top Trump surrogate, even suggested that Trump should skip the next two debates unless he gets concessions. “If I were Donald Trump I wouldn’t participate in another debate unless I was promised that the journalist would act like a journalist and not an incorrect, ignorant fact checker,” he said.......

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Hillary clinton has been a lawyer before being in politics, and has been a politician for 30 years, she would know the ins and outs of debating more so than trump.

Trump has never been a politician until last year, and has had mixed results in the GOP primary debates.

I just feel that hillary has an edge over trunp.

I can be wrong on this though. Lol

The people who will put Trump in the White House don't care about who won the debate.  They are voting against regressive leftist party politics and that will get him over the line.