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From The Reporter’s Notebook
During the second presidential debate on Sunday night, Donald Trump directed his ire not only at Hillary Clinton but at the debate’s moderators, as TPM’s Kristin Salaky and Esme Cribb noted. He complained about being interrupted and not being given time to respond to questions, and seemed to think that Clinton was given more time to speak, although he spoke for just over a minute longer in total. At one point, Trump seemed to accuse the moderators of ganging up on him with Clinton, calling it “one on three.”
Agree or Disagree?
Josh Marshall: “I would say that the real question of the final month of the 2016 campaign is no longer who will be president (yes, not over till it’s over, but …) but what toll Trump’s rhetorical violence and emotional breakdown will take on the GOP Congress. Mitch McConnell has been curiously silent through this drama. Paul Ryan is now trying, far too late in the game, to steer his ship into port. But the wind is churning, the waves are crashing and ship-ripping boulders are right under the water. He has to cross the boulders to find safety. Those boulders of course are Trump’s impassioned supporters, a minority of the electorate but a majority of Republican voters. The exact debate performance that turned off most swing voters was the fantasy debate for Trumpers.”
Say What?!
“I thought that was one of the better moments.”
– Mike Pence was apparently a big fan of Trump’s promise in the second debate to have a special prosecutor investigate Clinton.
BUZZING: Today in the Hive
From a TPM Prime member: “The optics of him making sure to stand behind HRC or wandering around the stage were uncomfortable for me on a primal level. The brushing off of his comments as ‘locker room talk’ were the worst. I did not think it was possible for him to personally offend me anymore, but he has now offended me as a man on top of as an American, a brown person, a child of immigrants, a person who pays their taxes… no, dude, we don’t all talk like that. I have never talked like that, I don’t know any men who talk about forcing their mouths on people or grabbing folks by their genitals. This is why there are young men who think it’s OK to sexually assault girls when they’re unconscious. What is with all the R’s saying they can’t support him because they have daughters? You should be even more horrified if you have sons. Because he is modeling this behavior for a new generation of boys.”
Related: A megachurch pastor who sits on Trump’s evangelical council denounced the Republican presidential candidate as “lecherous and worthless” over his comments in a 2005 video.
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What We’re Reading
Melania Trump wore a style of shirt marketed as a “pussy bow” to the second debate. (The Slot)
What a Trump or Clinton presidency would mean for the peanut butter and jelly sandwich. (Mashable)
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