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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.
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Daily Mail, American Prospect, Bloomberg, Power Line, Political Wire, Infowars and ImmigrationProf Blog
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 …
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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.
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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” …
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Washington Post, The Gateway Pundit, Daily Wire, BizPac Review, Guardian and Mashable
Michael Edison Hayden / ABC News:
Trump on Former Miss Universe Machado: ‘She Gained a Massive Amount of Weight’
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Politico and Associated Press
Josh Barro / Business Insider:
5 pieces of evidence that Hillary Clinton won the big presidential debate
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Daniella Diaz / CNN:
Who is Alicia Machado? Former Miss Universe said Trump called her Miss Piggy
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ThinkProgress, Washington Post, Talking Points Memo, CNBC and Washington Free Beacon
ABC News:
Debate Fact-Check: How Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton Stack Up
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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’
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Mediaite and Washington Post
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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Political Wire, Joe.My.God., The Week, ABC News, New Century Times, Mediaite and Politico
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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 …
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Washington Post, Politico, Hot Air, NBC News, Fox News and Associated Press
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?
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BuzzFeed, The Gateway Pundit, Washington Post, Fast Company, Mashable, New York Magazine and The Week
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.
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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 …
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Eddie Scarry / Washington Examiner:
In debate, Clinton gets no follow-up questions, Trump gets 6
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The Daily Caller and Infowars
Howard Fineman / The Huffington Post:
Trump's Debate Performance Was The Worst Ever
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Politico, Washington Post and Des Moines Register
Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
The instance when decorum went south for Clinton and Trump
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Hot Air, ABC News and Washington Post
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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New York Times:
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Press Pointed Attacks in Debate
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CNN and Los Angeles Times
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 …
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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 …
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Hot Air and The Daily Caller
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