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Four years ago, you could have almost seen Bill Clinton 's thought bubble as he watched Barack Obama 's weak and listless performance against Mitt Romney during the first presidential debate: "I can't believe we lost to this guy." Mr. Clinton never would have mailed it in the way Mr. Obama did.
When Donald Trump challenged Hillary Clinton's stamina on the debate stage, Pennsylvania voter Patricia Bennett said she heard a "dog whistle" that smacked of unmistakable sexism. "Why doesn't he just say that she needs more testosterone?" said Bennett, a 69-year-old independent from the Philadelphia suburbs who plans to vote for Clinton in November.
Political outsider Donald Trump exceeded expectations in yesterday's first US presidential debate if only by successfully binding Washington veteran Hillary Clinton to America's entrenched economic problems. While the media and political elites scored the debate as a Clinton win, it is likely the public will see it differently.
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. That drubbing is similar to Mitt Romney's dominant performance over President Barack Obama in the first 2012 presidential debate.
In a prime-time address at the Democratic National Convention, the billionaire made the case that Clinton is the best choice for moderate voters in 2016. "I will vote for Hillary, I will talk to my Republican friends about helping her, and I will donate to her campaign and try to raise money for her," Whitman told The New York Times .
Forget the polls. If you want to know who will win the presidential election on November 8, look at how the gamblers are placing their bets The polls predict a squeaker.
White Plains , Sep 25 : Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are expected to meet separately with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today ahead of their first presidential debate on Monday night. Netanyahu was expected to meet in New York with the presidential nominees of the two major parties in what could set the tone for future relations between Israel and the next White House administration.
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are expected to meet separately with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in New York on Sunday ahead of their first presidential debate on Monday night. Netanyahu has sought to project neutrality in this year's U.S. election after there were perceptions that he favored Mitt Romney over President Barack Obama in 2012.
Philippe Reines, a longtime aide to Hillary Clinton and one of the most astute observers of her personal and political vulnerabilities, is playing Donald Trump in her mock debate sessions, according to people familiar with Reines' involvement. Reines, who was Clinton's chief defender, enforcer and gatekeeper during most of her years in the Senate and as secretary of state, is a deft practitioner of the combative, no-holds-barred politics that Trump favors.
When Hillary Clinton said that half of Donald Trump's supporters belonged in a "basket of deplorables," Republicans thought they just might have found her campaign-crushing-blunder. The gaffe, they hoped, was a way to cement an image as an out-of-touch snob, just as Democrats did four years ago to Mitt Romney after he said "47 But a new Associated Press-GfK poll finds that Clinton's stumble didn't have quite the impact that Trump and his supporters wanted.
When Hillary Clinton said that half of Donald Trump's supporters belonged in a ''basket of deplorables,'' Republicans thought they just might have found her campaign-crushing-blunder. The gaffe, they hoped, was a way to cement an image as an out-of-touch snob, just as Democrats did four years ago to Mitt Romney after he said ''47 percent'' of voters backed President Barack Obama because they were ''dependent on government.'
If you're looking for choice when it comes to the presidential debates, then be prepared to be spoilt rotten by YouTube. Not to be outdone by the likes of Facebook and Twitter, Google's video platform is now offering more live-streams of the main event than ever before.
Donald Trump needs to use Monday's debate to convince more than just his base supporters that he can be president. Since Richard Nixon's sweaty, pasty look during the televised 1960 forum against John F. Kennedy, there isn't really one debate you can point to that cost or won a candidate the election.
The showdown between Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump is expected to shatter viewership records - a whopping 75% of registered voters plan to watch the first Trump-Clinton debate , according to a Morning Consult poll released Monday . If accurate, that means 95 million Americans will tune in.
Hillary Clinton spent $645,000 more a day than her opponent Donald Trump last month, but even with her $50 million campaign outlay, she has not been able to pull away from him in the race for the White House. Clinton's campaign had its most expensive month to date in August, eclipsing its previous monthly high by more than $12 million.
When Rosh Hashanah came around last year, Rabbi Aaron Gaber wanted to grapple with an issue roiling the country. So he decided to focus his sermon on racism.
He's not just validating Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton or holding up his record as a reason for voters to keep the White House in his party's hands. Obama wants his supporters to see anything less than a vote for Clinton as a sign of disrespect to the nation's first black president.
And, for about the first time during the campaign-proper, it's been Hillary Clinton who has been forced on to the back foot. There had already been mutterings by conspiracy theorists that Clinton had health issues that should have ruled her out from being president.
"We have achieved historic turnout in 2008 and 2012, especially in the African-American community. I will consider it a personal insult and an insult to my legacy if this community lets down its guard and fails to activate itself in this election," he said.