Debate Live Blog #1

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9:22 PM: He’s already getting hot. And we’re just 22 minutes in.

9:18 PM: She’s already getting to him.

9:16 PM: The pattern is pretty clear so far. Clinton is largely ignoring Trump’s trade policy discussion. She’s going to a discussion of taxes, trickle down, etc. And with each question she adds another taunt.

9:16 PM: “That’s called business.”

9:15 PM: Sniff, sniff.

9:13 PM: That line is pretty clearly not true from Trump. This is a good opening to get into that – how much his dad set him up, kept loaning him money.

9:11 PM: Interesting that Clinton basically let’s the trade stuff go. Goes right to a different script.

9:07 PM: Clinton basically general, aspirational; Trump goes immediately to economic nationalism, foreign governments squeezing America dry.

9:05 PM: It is beyond imagining that this is happening.

9:00 PM: Interesting what we just heard on MSNBC, that Hillary’s big goal here isn’t to convert people or convince people who don’t like her to like her. Her aim is to get her people motivated. Campaigns spin constantly. Take it as a given that nothing they say should be taken at face value. But that comment sounds true to me.

8:58 PM: Have been wondering for a while just how it goes when these two shake hands. That’s after what Trump has said about her and to a lesser extent what she’s said about him. We don’t have much precedent for that.

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