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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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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 …


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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Clinton Won The Debate, Which Means She's Likely To Gain In The Polls — Democrats woke up on Monday to a spate of bad polls for Hillary Clinton, which brought Donald Trump to perhaps his closest position yet in the Electoral College. They had reason to go to bed feeling a lot better.


Vote Now: Who Won the First Clinton-Trump Debate? — Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton met for their first presidential debate Monday, and we want to know who you think won. — Take a moment to click the link below next to the candidate who you thought did the best at the debate at Hofstra University in New York.
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5 pieces of evidence that Hillary Clinton won the big presidential debate — The political events of the last 15 months have ruined my confidence in my own ability to predict how the electorate will react to events. — So here are a few pieces of evidence, aside from my own impressions from watching …
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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 …


Online polls declare Trump debate winner, despite media consensus for Clinton — If polls only included media pundits, Hillary Clinton would have won Monday's debate by a landslide, but online surveys had Donald Trump as the yuge winner. — The Drudge Report poll had 80 percent …
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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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Holt Interrupted Trump WAY More Than Clinton In Debate
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Clinton Proved Trump Is a Man You Can Bait in a Debate
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Hillary Clinton's Pitch to End Private Prisons Is the Surprise Hit of the Presidential Debate
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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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Giuliani: I'd skip next debates if I were Trump — Donald Trump should skip the next two debates unless he gets special guarantees from the moderators, former New York mayor and top Trump adviser Rudy Giuliani told reporters after the debate. — Lester Holt, the NBC News anchor who moderated the debate …
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Most Memorable Lines of the First Presidential Debate
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Lester Holt shows he doesn't know the meaning of impartial
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Trump's Debate Performance Was The Worst Ever
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Donald Trump: ‘Lester Holt did a great job’
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Holt fact-checks Trump, not Clinton
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Clinton goes after Trump's weakness: His famously thin skin
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Transcript of the First Debate
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The first debate featured an unprepared man repeatedly shouting over a highly prepared woman
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Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Press Pointed Attacks in Debate
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EXCLUSIVE: Rudy Giuliani: ‘Lester Holt Should Be Ashamed Of Himself’
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Trump attacks former Miss Universe who ‘gained a massive amount of weight’ and had ‘attitude’ — NEW YORK — Donald Trump launched a deeply personal attack Tuesday morning on Alicia Machado, the 1996 Miss Universe winner who has accused him of calling her “Miss Piggy” and “Miss Housekeeping” because she's Latina.
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Trump responds to claims that he fat-shamed a Miss Universe winner by ... fat-shaming her again
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Trump on Former Miss Universe Machado: ‘She Gained a Massive Amount of Weight’
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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 …
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Campaign manager: Trump does not believe climate change is man made
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Trump's debate incompetence a slap in the face to his supporters — MORE FROM: — Hillary Clinton was boring and exceptionally well-prepared. Donald Trump was exciting but embarrassingly undisciplined. He began with his strongest argument — that the political class represented …
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This was the most important moment of the first presidential debate — The moment. — In 90 minutes, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton were able to cover a lot of ground. From the economy to racism to Iraq to criminal justice, the candidates sparred on the stage for the first time.
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Trump directed $2.3 million owed to him to his tax-exempt foundation instead
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