I watched the
final presidential debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. I
tweeted, took notes, and picked winners and losers.
My choices are below!
Winners
*
Hillary Clinton:
This was the Democratic nominee's best debate performance. She finally
figured out the right calibration of ignoring and engaging Trump.
Given her considerable edge in the electoral map,
Clinton didn't need a moment in this debate, she simply needed to
survive. But she had a moment, anyway — with a stirring answer in
response to Trump's comments about women and the allegations against him
of groping nine different women. Clinton,
borrowing from Michelle Obama's speech on the same subject,
was deeply human and relatable in that moment. Throughout the rest of
the debate, she did what we know she knows how to do well: She deftly
dropped a series of opposition research hits and sprinkled in a series
of attempts to goad Trump into mistakes. She came across as calm and
composed in the face of his, at times, tough-to-watch interruptions.
("Such a nasty woman,” Trump said of Clinton as she was speaking toward
the end of the debate.) Her performance wasn't perfect; she struggled to
defend the Clinton Foundation, for example, but Trump managed to throw
her an opening to talk about his own foundation's issues. All in all,
Clinton won — a clean sweep of the three debates.
*
Chris Wallace:
Wallace was the best moderator of the four debates — three
presidential, one vice presidential. Poised and confident, he sought to
steer the conversation without dominating it. He allowed the candidates
to debate issues back and forth but, when they veered off course and
didn't answer his questions, he made sure to let them know about it.
And, as was the case in other Fox-sponsored debates in the primary
season, Wallace's questions were just top-notch. On immigration, on the
women alleging that Trump groped them, on the Clinton Foundation,
Wallace asked blunt questions that demanded straight answers.
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