Both the Republican National Committee (RNC) and President Donald Trump’s campaign say they will oppose changes to the structure of presidential debates after the Commission on Presidential Debates announced it will consider making adjustments following Tuesday night’s debate, the first of the 2020 election cycle. “They’re only doing this because their guy got pummeled last…
H.R. McMaster, President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, said the President’s refusal to condemn white supremacy during Tuesday night’s presidential debate was “a missed opportunity.”  “To use a sports analogy, condemning white supremacists should be a layup for any leader,” McMaster said in an interview with The Atlantic. “What we’re undervaluing these days is the…
“Fox and Friends” host Steve Doocy says he’s against muting mics despite criticism of President Donald Trump’s behavior during Tuesday night’s debate. The debate was characterized by numerous interruptions from Trump, who at times appeared to be sparring with moderator Chris Wallace. “We’re at the point where after the debate Tuesday night, the President said…
Speaking the day after the first presidential debate of the 2020 election cycle, Democrat Joe Biden said President Donald Trump “looks down” on the American people. “The question is, does he see where you are and where you want to be? Does he care? Does he try to walk in your shoes to understand what’s…
The morning after the first presidential debate of the election cycle, President Donald Trump claimed his rival, Democrat Joe Biden, has lost suburban voters by not committing to a “law and order” agenda. “Biden REFUSED to use the term, LAW & ORDER! There go the Suburbs,” the president wrote on Twitter. Biden REFUSED to use…
Representative Eric Swalwell (D-CA) declared President Donald Trump “truth’s worst enemy” in an op-ed for Fox News. He declared the president’s rival, Democrat Joe Biden, the winner of last night’s presidential debate. “Tuesday night’s presidential debate was a resounding win for former Vice President Joe Biden and everyday Americans. The Democratic presidential nominee cut through the noise…
Democrat Joe Biden’s presidential campaign has rolled out a slew of digital ads to shape the national conversation after last night’s presidential debate. The Biden campaign bought valuable ad space on YouTube as well as on the homepages of AOL, Yahoo!, CNN, Fox News, Pandora, Univision, Reddit, The Daily Mail, CBS Sports, among others. “The…
Washington Post reporter Philip Bump says President Donald Trump is encouraging his supporters to have a “violent response” to November’s general election. Trump asserted that his supporters have to go and keep an eye on the polls. “I’m urging my supporters to go into the polls and watch very carefully because that’s what has to…
After President Donald Trump failed to condemn white supremacy during last night’s presidential debate, Fox personality Pete Hegseth said Democrat Joe Biden won’t condemn Black Lives Matter, insisting that Trump has condemned white supremacy “time and time again.” Trump stirred controversy after he told the white nationalist group Proud Boys to “stand back and stand…
Trump tweeted his usual list of online polls after last night’s debate, but one was missing: Brietbart, which proclaimed Hillary the winner
“I understand the subject matter very well. I don’t think she does. I think she frankly is a highly overrated intellect.”
“I’m going, that’s the smartest thing he did all night because that…coalesced his base back together because they feel [about Clinton]”
“@HillaryClinton is back to form: pedantic, lawyerly, technocratic, (woefully untruthful) responses.”
“Congrats to my running mate @realDonaldTrump on a big debate win! Proud to stand with you as we #MAGA.”
“That is sexual assault. You bragged that you have actually sexually assaulted women. Do you understand that?” And Trump answered, “No.”
Republicans claim President Obama runs the country like a dictator, but last night, we saw a real dictator unmasked.
Rising Democratic enthusiasm comes at a time when many voters across the country are already casting their ballots.
“I won the debate if you decide without watching the totally one-sided ‘spin’ that followed. This despite the really bad microphone.”
Hillary Clinton’s mention of Alicia Machado as Trump’s victim Monday night derailed Trump’s campaign by triggering a personal vendetta
Trump claims he is beating the system as his supporters game the system by rigging online polls to show he’s beating the system
“Almost every single poll had us winning the debate against crooked Hillary Clinton,” Trump said with a straight face.
“The fact that you have 80 percent of the people revved up enough to go to those polls suggests something about the level of intensity”
As Ezra Klein said, “So now we’re going to see whether a man repeatedly shouting over a woman on national television is good politics.”
“Hillary Clinton you could tell spent a lot of time preparing for this debate. Hillary Clinton was at times, you could argue, over-prepared”
Donald Trump was expected to be the loud, aggressive candidate at the first presidential debate, but it is Hillary Clinton who is firmly controlling the first presidential debate.
Trump’s bad debate got worse when Hillary Clinton pounced after Donald Trump was pressed on releasing his tax returns.
Hillary Clinton got Donald Trump to crack within ten minutes of the beginning of the debate by calling out his lie that he got a small loan from his father.
“Trump may make her cry. I mean, that could happen. Anything could happen.”
“Tonight is the ultimate test of whether journalists want to be journalists or blow hard entertainers who talk about expectations.”
In what is no doubt a big seller to Trump’s alt-right crowd as well as the die-hard Hillary haters who went along with Bernie Sanders for the ride, Alex Jones wants Donald Trump to accuse Hillary Clinton of treason at tonight’s debate. And yes, Alex Jones, like Trump, dared to abuse the word “truth” –…
Hours before Trump steps on stage to debate Hillary Clinton, a new report raises questions about whether or not Trump used his foundation to avoid paying personal income taxes.
With more than a hint of desperation, RNC Chair Reince Priebus tried to sell Trump as ready for presidential debate because he has been through season finales of The Apprentice.
Voters are demanding that the debate moderators fact check the candidates during the debate according to a new poll.
Every broadcast and cable news network have announced that they will not be fact checking Donald Trump on screen live during the presidential debate.
Steve Doocy claims if Hillary Clinton uses ‘the birther nonsense’ against Donald Trump it will be ‘ironic because her campaign started it’
“What is a big fact, what is a little fact?…I don’t think it’s a good idea to get the moderator into essentially serving as the Encyclopaedia Britannica”
Donald Trump’s campaign manager raised expectation’s sky high for Trump while lowering the bar for Hillary Clinton during a Sunday interview.
Reporting that doesn’t accurately reflect the huge honesty gap between the candidates misleads readers, giving them a distorted picture that favors the biggest liar.â€
The Hillary Clinton campaign held a special press call to call on the debate moderator, media, and voters to fact check Donald Trump. In order to help the press, debate moderators, and voters fact check Trump, the Clinton campaign has released 19 pages of Trump lies.
Donald Trump is openly begging debate moderators to allow him to lie at will because fact checking would be “unfair.”
Despite right wing efforts to smear and damage her, debate moderator Candy Crowley is refusing to walk back her accurate fact check of Mitt Romney’s Libya comments.
President Obama rebounded with a much stronger second debate performance, debunked the lies of Mitt Romney, and likely took control of this election.
To suggest that t Obama should have handled Romney’s lies like Biden did Ryan’s is to miss the bigger point: These two Republicans are not the same kinds of liars.
Post debate discussion focused on Romney’s energy and ability to take down Jim Lehrer. One problem: he isn’t running against Jim Lehrer
