Quote:In a sane world...  With a balanced media Hillary would be getting demolished this morning worse than Trump has in the last 3 days.  Donald Trump TO HER FACE told the wrold that she attacked a 12 year old female rape victim and laughed about it in defense of a man she KNEW TO BE GUILTY, and she had ZERO RESPONSE.  There is a difference between a pivot and being a sociopath.  Kathy Shelton wasn't a hot Mic incident.  It's a window into this womans soul, or lack there of. 

 

He brought up Benghazi in a smart way, he brought up immigration in a smart way, he talked about the economy in a smart way, I thought that he handled the tax question in a smart way. 

 

There were a lot of things that he could have done better.  In this forum, the goal isn't just to make your points but to soften yourself and relate to the audience members participating in the town hall.  I think that She did a better job on that as far as addressing them directly looking at them and making it seem like more of a one on one conversation.  I thought that he had a chance to ease concerns with the question from the young Muslim woman that he missed.  I thought that he could have framed the TAPE a lot better, but somehow seemed to survive what everyone knew was going to be hell for the first 30 minutes. 

 

Hillary Clinton's biggest potential mistake was admitting the authenticity of Wiki leaks.  She gave a convoluted answer about Abe linclon, Trump turned it around in two seconds with a great one liner AND it opens her up to the contents of the document dump.  In those transcripts, we see a women who sang for her supper to the large multinational banking institutions.  There isn't a majority constituency in this country that wants a borderless country.  There isn't  a majority constituency in this country that wants to adopt a hemispheric common market, TPP NAFTA x 10 all rolled into one taking our jobs.  Moreover, there was a massive populist uprising in her own party AGAINST these ideas! 

 

I thought this was a b+ performance by Donald Trump with his campaign hanging by a thread.  There were legitimate questions about Mike Pence asking to be removed from the ticket, he had been quiet all day.  He got the congratulatory text and this morning people are nitpicking about where Donald Trump was standing instead of obsessing over an 11 year old tape as they had been the previous 48 hours or lamenting that he looked unprepared and unserious as they had in the first debate. 

 

Hillary Clinton gained a lot of political juice since the first debate with Machado and the tape.  As good as the kool aid tastes this morning, even I have doubts about the ability of the Trump campaign to stitch together an electoral win in just 30 days given their natural deficits, but Trump delivered very near the performance that he needed to stabilize his candidacy moving forward and we aren't talking about a change to the ticket which would have been catastrophic. 

 

Also, I think that both missed an opportunity to give a shout out to the thousands of people without power picking up the pieces in Florida and NC.  Trump made his surge in September by going to LA, he needs to be in FL and or NC and he needs to be (seen as your non descript politically correct messionic figure).