Trump, who entered Sunday night’s debate desperate to steady his floundering campaign, unleashed a barrage of attacks and continually interrupted Clinton. Not only that, Trump said, Clinton had laughed at the girl.
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More mysterious was Trump’s sniffing, a behavior the candidate can’t seem to get rid of – it captured the attention of viewers at the first debate, too.
People also fired off tweets about Trump saying he was a “gentleman” because he let Clinton go first on a health care question posed by the audience. “Trump: you’re in the midst of a scandal about being a groper so don’t creepily lurk behind a woman”.
Trump: I can’t think of any. Clinton did her best not to get dragged into the muck, but she couldn’t avoid it entirely.
An analysis in The Washington Post listed Clinton as the victor and Trump as the loser.
All but six of the 40 Republican officeholders whose races are considered competitive in the election have condemned Trump’s comments in the video, although only three members of that group have called for him to drop out.
Asked whether he agreed with his running mate’s stance that “the United States of America should be prepared to use military force to strike military targets of the Assad regime to prevent them from this humanitarian crisis that is taking place in Aleppo”, Trump said, “He and I haven’t spoken”.
The two ended with a handshake, unlike at the debate’s beginning, and left the stage claiming victory.
Republican vice-presidential candidate and Indiana Gov. Mike Pence has canceled a fundraising event scheduled for Monday, according to Ocean County Organization officials.
It was clear Sunday night’s debate was not going to be a pleasant affair, as Trump tried to dig himself out of a hole created by the release of a 2005 videotape where he discussed women in lewd terms.
Meanwhile a CNN/ORC poll of debate watchers handed Sunday’s victory to Mrs Clinton.
But Driver also called Trump’s movements a “pre-assault indicator”. In the four days the poll was in the field prior to the revelation of Trump’s comments on Friday, 55 percent of likely voters said they did not think he respects women.
Clinton, on the other hand, only interrupted Trump once when he blamed her for President Bashar al-Assad’s use of chemical weapons in Syria.
“You can say any way you want to say it, but Bill Clinton was abusive to women”, he said.
Mr Fournier said that throughout the debate the controversial Republican “failed to patch together his collapsing campaign”.
Mrs Clinton laughed and said it was a good thing “somebody with Donald Trump’s temperament” doesn’t have such power.
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“Nothing hurts a bully like somebody laughing at him”, the column says.
