By Jaehun Lee and Mitch Gamburg
Pro Procrastinators
1) When Trump says America is great but he wants to make America great again
2) Anderson Cooper: “Are you a good role model for children?”
Trump: “We’re gonna knock the hell out of ISIS.”
3) “Nobody has greater respect for women that I do.” Instead of saying he’s superior, Trump should humble himself. He’s had chance after chance this election to right his past wrongs and truly come across as the people’s candidate: as someone who makes mistakes but learns from them, not a god who is superior to Americans everywhere. Instead, he’s digging himself into a deeper hole.
4) Hillary is basically just words.
5) Hillary, please figure out how to end a speech and stop being so indirect about everything. Say it how it is.
6) Clinton: “So much of what he’s just said is not right… [Trump] owes the President an apology. He owes the country an apology.” Probably not the best way to respond, considering her own wrongdoings.
7) “Everything he said is absolutely false.” Clinton can’t just completely deny what’s widely accepted as true. Even she called it “a mistake on my part.”
8) Just because the email didn’t get hacked and just because classified materials didn’t fall into enemy hands doesn’t mean Clinton can say she didn’t do anything wrong. You can’t afford to take that risk when the future of the country is on the line.
9) Trump does have a point about deleting the emails under a subpoena. Even if none of the emails contained classified info the timing very suspicious.
10) Threatens a presidential candidate with jail time: MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN.
11) Ad Hominem for president 2016.
12) “One on three”: when Trump starts raging you know it’s going down.
13) When a candidate starts making arguments #hallelujah
14) We’re at 90% health care coverage. It could be higher if we had Bernie Sanders as the Democratic candidate. It also could’ve been higher if we listened to First Lady Clinton and passed the Health Security Act (Clinton Health Care Plan of 1993 a.k.a. Hillary care). Read more here.
15) Debate moderators actually need to be able to cut the mics, or something. They’re all going over time, and Trump is consistently interrupting Clinton. Seriously, guys?
16) Trump, what are you doing? What did the chair ever do to you?
17) Clinton needs to give actual plans for her presidency instead of making promises. We need numbers, not a redirection to her website. We’re lazy people.
18) Trump regarding the refugee crisis: “People are coming into our country… we have no idea who they are, where they’re from, what their feelings about our country [are], and she wants 550% more. This is going to be the great Trojan horse of all time”. While 550% may seem like a lot, the raw numbers pale in comparison to other countries like Germany. According to an Al-Jazeera article from January, Germany will be taking in over 1 million refugees per year, compared to 10,000 in the US. So much for American being great…
19) The second half of Trump’s response about refugees was not good. He should’ve stopped after the first.
20) When Trump start attacking the moderators, oh boy.
21) What is Trump going off about Honest Abe for? You can’t say Clinton is lying if she isn’t lying.
22) Too much repetition from Trump. This is why he’s constantly going overtime but his answers have no content.
23) I’m not sure Trump knows what he’s saying.
24) Alternative reality? Oh I get it, Trump’s in the Matrix.
25) “Did you avoid federal income taxes?”
“Hillary’s donors are the real problem here.” Please answer the question.
26) Clinton: “I’ve proven that I can [work with others in Washington].” Debatable.
27) Trump: “I will give economics to people”
28) Jaehun: DEAR HILLARY CLINTON, NEVER SIGN THE TPP
Mitch: Let’s be clear, economists more or less agree that the TPP would overall benefit the economy.
29) Oh no… Benghazi, again?
30) FINALLY HILLARY CLINTON THAT’S THE RESPONSE I WAS LOOKING FOR. Accept your mistakes, and show that you’ve improved since then.
31) Clinton with every question: “That’s a really important question.” “I’m so glad you brought up that question.” “That’s the most important issue for our country today.”
32) Clinton: “You know that we are now, for the first time ever, energy independent…” Depends on what you define as energy independent. In 2015, the United States imported approximately 9.4 million barrels per day (MMb/d) of petroleum from about 88 countries.
33) ARE WE REALLY NOT GOING TO TALK ABOUT INFRASTRUCTURE???
34) Karl Becker: Question of the night.
35) Clinton: “I respect his… children.”
36) That was a nice ending to a pretty empty debate.
37) A lot of really exciting, engaging . . . *snores*
38) The moderators were good at speaking. The problem is, we’re not supposed to know that.
39) Not a good performance from either of the candidates, with Trump further distancing himself from Republicans (even disagreeing with his running mate) and Clinton resorting to ad hominem attacks.
40) The moderators should’ve talked about infrastructure, especially Clinton’s plan to spend $275 billion plan to fix America’s infrastructure. According to the American Society of Civil Engineers, it would take $3.6 trillion invested by 2020 to bring America’s infrastructure to acceptable levels.
41) Anderson Cooper and Martha Raddatz: decent performance overall as moderators of the debate. Maybe showed a bit too much bias in favor of Clinton, but they also moved along the conversation effectively so we could get to more audience questions. Good assertiveness at times, but could’ve used more at other times. BUT NO INFRASTRUCTURE!
42) Ranking of Moderators:
- Anderson Cooper and Martha Raddatz
- (not far behind) Lester Holt
- (in a very distant third) Elaine Quijano
Even the New York Times admitted Quijano was biased against Pence, and that’s saying something.
