Commentators are split on who won and who lost, or whether it was a tie. Most mainstream media outlets, with the notable exception being The Wall Street Journal, seem to have formed a consensus that Hillary trounced Trump, yet online polling and the alternative media either give Trump the win or chalked it up as a tie. Pundits are battling all over the place in analyzing the punches that each candidate lobbed against the other, but it’s questionable whether any of them even mattered at this point since both nominees seemed to have held back from launching an all-out attack against the other.
Whether it was wise to save their knockout blows for another debate or if this will be agonized in hindsight as a frustratingly missed opportunity remains to be seen.
Andrei Fedorov, Director, Center for Political Studies and Russia’s former Deputy Foreign Minister (studio guest); Chris Shipler, American political commentator; and Fred Weir, Moscow correspondent, Christian Science Monitor discussed the topic.
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