2. Kudos to Anderson Cooper for following up in a respectful but logically coherent way.
1. OK, starting the debate tweetstorm, as a numbered sequence
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3. As HRC is responding, I’m thinking: “when they go low, we go high.”
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4. What she is doing right now is weaponized version of first debate tactic: stick a harpoon in his side, watch him respond.
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5. Trump’s first two answers remind us of the truth: in a head to head debate, two minutes is a VERY long time if you don’t know issues
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6. This “it’s locker room talk” BS is an insult to 99% of men who have been in locker rooms. But clearly it’s what prep team fed him.
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7. And DJT takes the bait yet again!!
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8. Let us see how long he can go without getting into Bill Clinton and his offenses. We’re 16 minutes in now. But he is ALREADY angry.
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9. He is already angry. Item 1 on her checklist is accomplished.
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10. Trump goes back to Marco-Rubio-like memorized “that was locker room talk.” Who actually believes it
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11. And at minute 17, he goes for Bill CLinton!
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12. OH MY GOD. I will try to say this only once during the debate. He really is introducing his audience props?
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13. It appears that by bad luck, DJT again has the same bad microphone that makes it sound like you’re constantly sniffing.
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14. This is EXACTLY the scenario that HRC’s team must have been dreaming of (as in first debate.)
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15. Here is comes! (See 10 tweets ago) Go low / go high
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16. What is happening at this moment is 90% HRC addressing the public, atnd 10% her intentionally DRIVING HIM CRAZY
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17. Trump has learned, after first debate, that he is on camera the whole time. Trying to control has face. WIth mixed success.
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18. Sidney Blumenthal!!!
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19. Side note: Trump really is displaying what happens when you have a limited repertoire of info to draw from. Same stuff, mix and match.
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20. Right now HRC is remembering what Obama said to Romney: “Proceed, governor.” She would be happy if he had ALL the time tonight.
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21. Oh good god: The first debate where one candidate is threatening to prosecute the other ...
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22. And on the principle that EVERYTHING that Trump says is projection, what does that say about his own situation.
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23. THE job for DJT coming into this debate was to assure people that he was presidential, sensible, in control. So far …
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24. “Because you’d be in jail.” Let me say: THIS IS A DISQUALIFYING STATEMENT ON ITS OWN that we have just heard from DJT.
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25. HRC dealing with email: Goal is to wrap this up in 15 seconds, and then get to the “but the election really is about…"
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26. Tip for HRC. Every second on the email topic is a second you should be using for pivot to “ but the real question for our future is …"
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27. Let me go back to the “Because you’d be in jail.” That was genuinely outrageous; worse than similar “That makes me smart” about taxes
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28. “She should be put in jail.” Good lord.
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29. The picador strategy, driving him crazy, is paying off. He can’t contain himself from interrupting. Works against her in short term...
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30. … but against him in long term. HIS CHALLENGE is winning over people who are not with him already. Wonder who those would be.
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31. Watching Trump loom around stage, am reminded of interviewing Jane Goodall for my debate piece, on the dominance rituals of male chimps
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