Just watched it. Underwhelming to say the least.
Hillary was 100% rehearsed, constantly pandered to the crowd, was quite belittling to Trump (and managed to use Trump's reputation against him very well to hide the fact that it was her and not him that was being demeaning). Came across as very disingenuous and nasty.
Trump sort of ranted a lot of the time, constantly repeated himself, was very defensive and Hillary got a rise out of him a bunch of time, went in too deep on little stuff which made him seem petty and under prepared.
I don't think either of them presented their case very well but Hillary won the debate. Not in the sense that she bested Trump with her arguments but in the sense that she won the crowd (even got a laugh a couple of times). A career politician doing what a career politican does best basically. Trump felt out of his league. He didn't play the game very well. It's a dirty game but that's sadly the way it is.
Hoping the next debates will have a little bit more substance.
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