September 27, 2016
POLITICO staff photographer M. Scott Mahaskey takes readers behind the scenes of the first 2016 presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, held at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York.
September 27, 2016
HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. — The first 20 minutes of the long-awaited showdown between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton appeared to be a draw. It was only later, when Clinton began a barrage of possible explanations for Trump’s failure to release his tax returns and then sat back as he squirmed his way through an explanation of […]
September 27, 2016
September 27, 2016
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton faced off for the first general election debate on Monday night, against the backdrop of tightening polls and sky-high expectations. Here’s how it went down, by the numbers: Number of interruptions (via Pew Research):51 times — Trump interrupted Clinton 17 times — Clinton interrupted Trump Number of times Obama’s name […]
September 27, 2016
HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. — Score round 1 for Hillary Clinton. That’s according to The POLITICO Caucus — a panel of swing-state activists, strategists and operatives who watched the first debate here Monday night. The insiders’ bipartisan verdict: Clinton dispatched Donald Trump in their first of three nationally televised meetings. Overall, roughly 80 percent of insiders — […]
September 27, 2016
Donald Trump interrupted Hillary Clinton 25 times in the first 26 minutes. He claimed she lacked the “stamina” to serve as commander-in-chief. And when the question of his attitude towards women became an explicit topic of debate, he seemed to allude to resisting the urge to use her husband’s marital infidelity against her. Trump has […]
September 27, 2016
HEMPSTEAD, N.Y.—Hillary Clinton plays chess. Donald Trump plays craps. Chess isn’t for everyone. It takes a long time. It’s complicated. The chess team has a tendency to get beat up. Craps is fun. It’s thrilling. Maybe you win big. Maybe you lose. But in the moment, what a show. Clinton’s campaign wanted the debate to […]
September 27, 2016
There were a couple of not-so-very-subtle signals here inside of Hofstra University that Donald Trump lost Monday night’s highly-anticipated debate against Hillary Clinton, and badly. The first was the audible sound of groaning by some of his supporters (picked up by my attentive colleague Steve Shepard) inside the debate hall as Trump meandered self-defensively through […]
September 27, 2016
September 27, 2016
It was a sober night Monday for those whose debate drinking games counted on the candidates throwing around campaign buzzwords like Benghazi, the border wall and the Clinton Foundation. While those issues dominated various phases of the 2016 run for the White House, none were uttered during the first presidential debate. Hillary Clinton may have […]