Reactions: Conservatives Split On Debate Winner, Liberals and MSM Grant Clinton Victory

By Dustin Siggins Published on September 26, 2016

Tonight’s first of three presidential debates was a combination of personal attacks, policy arguments and even occasional policy agreements. Conservatives were split over who won, whileย liberals and mainstream commentators seemed to agree that Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton beat her Republican opponent, Donald Trump.

Here’s a non-exhaustive, largely random sampling of Tweet and Facebook reactions to the debate:

https://twitter.com/hunterw/status/780602616858288128

 

https://twitter.com/davidgregory/status/780608622673989632

https://twitter.com/JayCostTWS/status/780605656592224256

https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/780606030493446144

https://twitter.com/SharylAttkisson/status/780601400166322176

https://twitter.com/ellencarmichael/status/780603154492641280

https://twitter.com/advodude/status/780605324549951490

Maybe this tweet from Matt Makowiak sums up the results of the evening:

Or asย TheBlazeย blogger Matt Walsh described “tonight’s horrific spectacle” on Facebook:

For the first 30 minutes, Trump was great. In fact I was legitimately impressed. He put Hillary on the defensive and she responded by cackling and stammering and flashing an evil grin like Nurse Ratched from One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Hillary is absolutely awful when you take her off her script. She knows how to do what she practiced, but she doesn’t know how to respond like a regular human person when she’s backed into a corner.

Unfortunately, the debate was not 30 minutes. It was 90 minutes. And those last 60 were a disaster for Trump. Period. And if you want him to win, you need to criticize him now and stop pretending everything he touches is gold. Or he will lose. Badly. That’s the situation. Time to deal with it.

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