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Agreed. Trump has no idea, I'm convinced, about how cyber security works and how that issue should have been a punching bag to hammer Hillary. He had 2 minutes and he basically said "cyber.. in this world, we need cyber. And it should be secure." WTF? It just points out the fact that he was not prepared.
This is the kind of stuff that could actually come to fruition if he did any legitimate debate prep.
98% of HIllary relatives said she did a flawless job.80% on Drudge say Trump won
That's a good one that I forgot. The cyber security question was a softball and he missed it. It was such a cookie, HRC should have winced when the question was asked because she knew she was going to get pummelled.
That's the thing, she closed that down pretty effectively by saying I screwed up and I'm sorry. Even coming from her, that blunts the attack. If he'd have done that with the birther stuff, the taxes, etc. he'd have looked (and done) a lot better. But his ego is too big to do so he gets mired in trying to defend himself.
Trump isn't a politician and you're right, didn't prepare like one. He's been travelling all over the country giving the same speech over and over again. It looks like he tried to essentially give the same talking points last night, while taking a few shots at Clinton. That strategy isn't going to work.
Lost in all this...Trump had never face a politician in a debate as good as Hillary (for all he faults, she's historically been a very good debater). None of the Republicans are at her level. He wasn't prepared for someone with both the time to speak and ability to put a logical argument together and it showed.
Yep. Even with her saying she was wrong and sorry, if he knew the subject matter he could have hammered her in front of 100 million people. She talked about how we need to be secure in our communications and protect information, etc. Yet she conducted sensitive communications using unsecured email on an iPhone. Huge opportunity missed and I don't think he even realizes it this morning. He thinks he won. Just a moron.
What are you talking about? He has a son. Who is 10 years old. Who is super good with computers. Its unbelievable.
Exactly, it's not about whether she is sorry, it's about garnering votes. She made a good apology. I think it was bogus, and Trump did a pretty decent job of immediately slamming her for it, but not THAT great of a job. I think a prepared politician would have eviscerated her after her apology. She looked nervous and guilty when he was attacking her for the emails, but his attacks were off-the-cuff and unprepared and fell way short of what a prepared attack would have been.
He knows cyber is going to be huge. It wasn't even a word until a few years ago!
His stump speeches at a Trump rally are not going to cut it on the debate stage. I'm tired of hearing about Carrier air conditioning leaving for Mexico.
Ive got this online friend, tremendous at cyber, believe me, he is really sharp. Goes by the name :bloodninja: he's gonna be yuuge.
He doesn't seem to have awareness as to how that will be perceived. He needs to unpack that a little bit and she would have looked ridiculous for bringing it up. The entire viewing audience is full of people that try to pay as little taxes as possible (in legal ways), and if he had spent 2 minutes laying out the sound reasons why his not paying income taxes "makes me smart", he could have ended that debate for a long time. Instead he says what he said arrogantly and scores no points.
Yes, everyone tries to pay as little as possible on taxes. The issue I, and I'd imagine a lot of middle-class Americans, have is that I'm paying abut a third of my monthly check in taxes while a billionaire gloats about paying close to (just speculating here) zero. IMO it's not a defensible position to to just claim that "I'm just smarter than you."
Exactly. Which is why he needs to unpack it a little and make it seem like something any reasonable person would do. Let's be honest, Donald Trump doesn't sit in front of his TurboTax screen and figure out ways to pay as few taxes as possible. He has an accountant that uses the legal laws to do this. Just laying the facts out would seem the smart thing to do, but he failed in that and came across as an arrogant rich guy.
To me the obvious follow up question is "will you work to close those loopholes so the tax burden is shared more equally with middle-class America?".
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Oh? Either way it's how he got here. Now he's not doing it. Game over. But I think he does like and respect them and views them as peers.
Fascinating. I also think there is some genuine appreciation and at times it felt like Big Sister/Little Brother on stage fighting. Excellent observation.
Well, he spent the first third of the debate arguing that rich people need to pay less taxes so they'll stop sending jobs overseas.
The good thing about cyber is that the word is short, like all the best words. And his tiny hands
Right, while simultaneously increasing the military budget and building a $20 billion wall. And he won't raise taxes on the middle class.
I think you're also overlooking the fact that one v one debates are an entirely different animal than ones with 11 people or even with three.
No, I'm not overlooking that. That should increase the potential for such tactics, not decrease them. He mocked Cruz and Kasich in the same manner in more limited debates right up to the end.
Plus he's going to want to spend Federal money on the military, on infrastructure (obviously not the wall) etc. Where does he think that money comes from? It comes from Federal taxes which he just said people (and corporations obviously) are stupid to pay. Aims gun at foot, fires
I wouldn't call that a one on one debate. When he's asked questions such as "Will you show us your tax returns", "Do you think Obama is a naturally born citizen", and "Will you support Hillary if she wins", his responses aren't a debate with Hillary. Lester and HIllary could have stood together behind the podium, asked those questions, sat back and listened and Trump would look bad trying to answer them.
Please...even a half-wit knows how to parry those questions effectively. The fact he couldn't and didn't should tell you all you need to know about him.
I agree. He's an idiot, and I will never vote for him. I'm voting for Johnson. I was expecting BOTH of them to look bad last night, but Lester's choice of questions didn't present much risk to Hillary. Again I would have preferred a real one on one debate because both of them would come out looking bad. Too many of the questions sucked last night. There were much better questions that should have been asked.
That wasn't the question - and its important to get that one right. Holt asked each candidate if they would accept the results of the election. And that's remarkable in the US that he had to ask that. But it was a direct response to Trump going on and on about how the election is going to be rigged (with no evidence, of course, to back up that claim).
