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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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Ben Collins / The Daily Beast:
Donald Trump's Online Trolls Turn on Their ‘God Emperor’ — One of Donald Trump's most ardent fringe message boards appeared to turn on its candidate of choice during Monday night's debate, saying he “got played” and that “this was not supposed to happen.” — 4chan, the alt-right forum …
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Debate breaks record as most-watched in U.S. history — Monday night was the most-watched debate in American history. — More than 80 million people tuned in to see Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump face off, setting a new record in the sixty year history of televised presidential debates.
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Fox News:
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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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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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
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.
McClatchy Washington Bureau:
After presidential debate, Clinton falters among some focus group voters in swing state — CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Kae Roberts and Jay Eardly were leaning toward Hillary Clinton before Monday night's debate. — By the end, they had both pulled away. — John Kokos and Hank Federal were undecided going in, potential Clinton backers.
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NPR:
Fact Check: Trump And Clinton Debate For The First Time
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Josh Barro / Business Insider:
5 pieces of evidence that Hillary Clinton won the big presidential debate
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Tom Kludt / CNN:
Campaign manager: Trump does not believe climate change is man made
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Nikita Vladimirov / The Hill:
Trump: I won every debate poll except CNN
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Daily Mail:
Majority of snap polls show Trump won debate by a landslide despite CNN's overwhelming victory …
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Brianna Ehley / Politico:
Obama weighs in on the debate
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
The real Donald Trump showed up at Hofstra. Republicans must live with it.
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Ranting Bully Donald Trump Came Unglued in First Presidential Debate
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Katie Jerkovich / The Daily Caller:
Michael Moore appeared frustrated on Twitter following …
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Caitlin Dewey / Washington Post:
Google searches for ‘registrarse para votar’ hit all-time high during debate
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Louis Nelson / Politico:
Giuliani: Clinton ‘too stupid to be president’ — Hillary Clinton's decision to stand by her husband and attack former White House intern Monica Lewinsky when news of a sexual relationship between the two broke in 1998 prove that the former secretary of state is “too stupid to be president,” Rudy Giuliani said Monday night.
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Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
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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Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Giuliani: I wouldn't debate again after Holt's ‘interference’
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Ezra Klein / Vox:
The first debate featured an unprepared man repeatedly shouting over a highly prepared woman
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Callum Borchers / Washington Post:
Donald Trump has already flip-flopped on Lester Holt's debate performance
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New York Times:
Transcript of the First Debate
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Eddie Scarry / Washington Examiner:
In debate, Clinton gets no follow-up questions, Trump gets 6
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Prachi Gupta / Cosmopolitan:
Former Miss Universe Alicia Machado Won't Be Defined by Donald Trump's Fat-Shaming — When Hillary Clinton called out her opponent's sexism at the first presidential debate, she highlighted a woman who had experienced it firsthand. — In the final minutes of the first presidential debate …
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
On Howard Stern, Trump Called 1996 Miss Universe An “Eating Machine” — Near the end of the first presidential debate on Monday, Hillary Clinton went after Donald Trump for repeatedly mocking the weight of 1996 Miss Universe winner Alicia Machado. — “He called this woman 'Miss Piggy …
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Daniella Diaz / CNN:
Who is Alicia Machado? Former Miss Universe said Trump called her Miss Piggy — Clinton: Trump called women pigs, slobs and dogs — Washington (CNN)Hillary Clinton was making a point about Donald Trump and women at the first presidential debate when she brought up Alicia Machado …
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Yousef Saba / Politico:
Former Miss Universe calls Trump's attacks on her weight ‘a really bad dream’
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John Podhoretz / New York Post:
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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Steve Harrison / The Charlotte Observer:
Charlotte mayor faces furious crowd at City Council meeting — A furious crowd of citizens criticized and often shouted down Charlotte City Council on Monday night, calling for resignations across the city and chanting, “Hands Down! Shoot Back!” and “No Justice, No Peace!”
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Salena Zito / New York Post:
How Trump won over a bar full of undecideds and Democrats — More On: — YOUNGSTOWN, Pa. - Ken Reed sat down at main bar of the Tin Lizzy tavern with two things in mind, to dig into the tavern's oversized cheese steak and watch the presidential debate. — “I am hungry and undecided in that order …
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Julian Hattem / The Hill:
State Dept misses court's deadline on Clinton docs — The State Department narrowly missed a court-ordered deadline on Monday to release documents about whether former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton — and her senior aides participated in security training and briefings.
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