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9:40 AM ET, September 27, 2016

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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Voters Nationally Say Clinton Won Debate 51/40  —  PPP's post debate survey, sponsored by VoteVets Action Fund, finds that voters nationally think Hillary Clinton defeated Donald Trump in the debate, 51/40.  —  Perhaps most important for Clinton is that among young voters …
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CNN:
Post-debate poll: Hillary Clinton takes round one  —  (CNN)Hillary Clinton was deemed the winner of Monday night's debate by 62% of voters who tuned in to watch, while just 27% said they thought Donald Trump had the better night, according to a CNN/ORC Poll of voters who watched the debate.
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
The first Trump-Clinton presidential debate transcript, annotated  —  Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump go head-to-head for the first time Monday night in a 90-minute debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y. The debate, which is expected to draw a record number of viewers …
Emily Crockett / Vox:
Trump interrupted Clinton 25 times in the first 26 minutes of the debate  —  It didn't take long during Monday night's presidential debate before Donald Trump started interrupting Hillary Clinton.  A lot, and aggressively.  —  We kept count — and Trump interrupted Clinton 25 times in the first 26 minutes of the debate.
Andrew Prokop / Vox:
Early polls and focus groups suggest Hillary Clinton won the debate  —  It will be a few more days before we get methodologically rigorous polls measuring how the electorate felt about the first presidential debate.  The indicators we have so far are necessarily incomplete and limited …
Phillip Stucky / The Daily Caller:
Holt Interrupted Trump WAY More Than Clinton In Debate  —  Moderator Lester Holt was much harsher on Republican nominee Donald Trump than he was on Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton during the debate Monday evening.  —  Holt interrupted Trump a record 41 times, either to “fact-check” …
Michael Edison Hayden / ABC News:
Trump on Former Miss Universe Machado: ‘She Gained a Massive Amount of Weight’
Discussion: Politico and Associated Press
TIME:
Vote Now: Who Won the First Clinton-Trump Debate?
Discussion: CNBC and The Gateway Pundit
ABC News:
Debate Fact-Check: How Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton Stack Up
Discussion: Associated Press, Politico and Mediaite
Julia Jacobo / ABC News:
Presidential Debate: Trump Held Back on Bill Clinton's ‘Transgressions’ Because Chelsea Was ‘In the Room’
Discussion: Mediaite and Washington Post
Fox News Insider:
Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton and First Presidential Debate
Discussion: BizPac Review
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Giuliani: I wouldn't debate again after Holt's ‘interference’  —  surrogate Rudy Giuliani floated the prospect of Trump not participating in further general election debates, after what he believes was inappropriate meddling Monday by moderator Lester Holt.  —  “If I were Donald Trump …
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Adam Kelsey / ABC News:
Most Memorable Lines of the First Presidential Debate  —  There have already been fireworks between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump as the two candidates face off in the first presidential debate at Hofstra University tonight.  —  Clinton and Trump have 90 minutes of nonstop debating …
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Howard Dean calls Trump a ‘coke user’ on Twitter  —  Former Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean on Monday mentioned cocaine in a tweet discussing Donald Trump  —  's sniffling during his first presidential debate.  —  Notice Trump sniffing all the time.  Coke user?
Joe Concha / The Hill:
Holt fact-checks Trump, not Clinton  —  Throughout much of the evening, Lester Holt was the invisible moderator at Monday night's presidential debate.  —  The NBC anchor frequently fell into the background as Donald Trump  —  jabbed at one another from the debate stage.
Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
Clinton goes after Trump's weakness: His famously thin skin  —  HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. — Hillary Clinton's weapon of choice in her first debate with Donald Trump was a needle.  —  Almost from the outset of the 95-minute debate, the Democratic nominee, who is known for having a debate-stage persona …
Eddie Scarry / Washington Examiner:
In debate, Clinton gets no follow-up questions, Trump gets 6
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Infowars
Howard Fineman / The Huffington Post:
Trump's Debate Performance Was The Worst Ever
Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
The instance when decorum went south for Clinton and Trump
Discussion: Hot Air, ABC News and Washington Post
Associated Press:
The Latest: Updates From the 1st Presidential Debate
Discussion: ABC News, Politico, Mediaite and alan.com
ABC News:
WATCH: Memorable Moments From the First Presidential Debate
Ross Douthat Comment / New York Times:
Trump Fails the Stamina Test  —  Donald Trump won the first 25 minutes of the first presidential debate.  He was too bullying and shout-y, too prone to interrupt, but he seized on an issue, trade, where Hillary Clinton was awkward and defensive, and he hammered away at his strongest campaign theme …
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Maria T. Cardona / The Hill:
Hillary Clinton does her homework and shows who's boss  —  This first presidential debate was Hillary's moment.  She owned Donald Trump  —  like a Girl Boss.  And she demonstrated the benefits of good preparation.  In fact, one of her greatest moments of the night was when she turned to Trump and said …
David A. Fahrenthold / Washington Post:
Trump directed $2.3 million owed to him to his tax-exempt foundation instead  —  Donald Trump's charitable foundation has received approximately $2.3 million from companies that owed money to Trump or one of his businesses but were instructed to pay Trump's tax-exempt foundation instead …
Julio Cortez / Talking Points Memo:
Hillary Ruled the Show  —  Let me start by saying that my central prediction about this debate was wrong.  I thought Trump's big obstacle was getting pressed on a specific policy question, not having any idea what he was talking about and riffing his way into nonsense or easily controvertible lies.
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Hannity backs up Trump on Iraq War  —  Fox News's Sean Hannity came to Donald Trump  —  's defense Monday night, corroborating the GOP presidential nominee's debate claim that he had expressed doubts about the Iraq War to the anchor.  —  In a post-debate interview between Trump and Hannity …
Discussion: Hot Air and The Daily Caller
 
 
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John Podhoretz / New York Post:
Trump's debate incompetence a slap in the face to his supporters
Discussion: NBC News and Washington Post
Chris Lebron / New York Times:
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Carter Stoddard / Politico:
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Discussion: RedState
Brian Snyder / National Review:
Obama's Conflict Tanked the Clinton E-mail Investigation — As Predicted
Discussion: Daily Wire
Tim Nudd / Adweek:
Tecate Will Ambush Tonight's Debate With This Trump-Mocking Ad About Building a ‘Beer Wall’
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
ThinkProgress:
Trump said he received a ‘small loan’ from his father. He received millions.
Discussion: Occupy Democrats
Eliza Collins / USA Today:
Green Party candidate Jill Stein escorted off debate premises, resorts to Twitter
Ashley Rae Goldenberg / mrctv.org/videos:
Hofstra University Provides ‘Trigger Warning’ for Presidential Debate
Discussion: Liberty Unyielding
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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
This is everything that's wrong with how television covers the election
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