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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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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.
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.
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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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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Ted Cruz / Facebook:
Tonight, a clear contrast was drawn between the two nominees.
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NPR:
Fact Check: Trump And Clinton Debate For The First Time
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TIME:
Vote Now: Who Won the First Clinton-Trump Debate?
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Monday night ranks as the ‘most tweeted debate ever’
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Brianna Ehley / Politico:
Obama weighs in on the debate
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Neil W. McCabe / Breitbart:
Pat Caddell: Breitbart/Gravis Post-Debate Flash Poll Shows Hillary Clinton Won Slightly; Trump Gains ‘Plausibility’
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Trump Wins Most Immediate Polls
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
The real Donald Trump showed up at Hofstra. Republicans must live with it.
Josh Barro / Business Insider:
5 pieces of evidence that Hillary Clinton won the big presidential debate
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Los Angeles Times:
Clinton-Trump first debate updates: Our scorers give it to Clinton
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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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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Ranting Bully Donald Trump Came Unglued in First Presidential Debate
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Trump points fingers after shaky debate — Donald Trump's long night on Long Island morphed into a day of finger-pointing Tuesday, as he revived his brashest personal style to explain an erratic debate performance against Hillary Clinton. — The Republican presidential nominee …
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Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
Giuliani: I'd skip next debates if I were Trump
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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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Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Giuliani: I wouldn't debate again after Holt's ‘interference’
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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”
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New York Times:
Shamed and Angry: The Beauty Contestant Donald Trump Mocked for Her Weight
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Scott Detrow / NPR:
In Post-Debate Interview, Trump Again Criticizes Pageant-Winner's Weight
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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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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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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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Mark Hosenball / Reuters:
Exclusive: FBI probes hacks targeting phones of Democratic Party officials - sources — The FBI is investigating suspected attempts to hack mobile phones used by Democratic Party officials as recently as the past month, four people with direct knowledge of the attack and the investigation told Reuters.
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The White House:
Opening Remarks by the President in Call with Rabbis for Rosh Hashanah — THE PRESIDENT: Well, thank you so much, Rabbi, for the warm introduction. Shanah Tovah to everybody. Thanks for taking time to join this call. I know it's a busy and important time.
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump considers biggest donation yet to his own campaign — MIAMI — Donald Trump's aides are discussing the possibility of asking him to write his biggest check yet to his own campaign to fund an ad blitz, and the billionaire candidate is open to the possibility, according to three people close to the nominee.
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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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