Twitter commentary about the second presidential debate.

What Twitter’s Smartest Liberals and Conservatives Are Saying About the Second Debate

What Twitter’s Smartest Liberals and Conservatives Are Saying About the Second Debate

Who's winning, who's losing, and why.
Oct. 9 2016 7:01 PM

What Twitter Pundits Are Saying About the Second Debate

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Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.

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Donald Trump is very not likely to be president. While his odds have been deteriorating steadily since his disastrous performance in the first presidential debate, Friday’s bombshell recording of him casually “joking” about groping women during a private conversation that was picked up by a hot mic in 2005 has almost certainly cooked the Republican nominee’s goose. Still: While it seems extraordinarily unlikely that Trump will become the most powerful person in the world, he can continue to do an unprecedented amount of damage to our democracy, and he could turn Sunday night’s second presidential debate into a spectacle the likes of which modern American politics has never seen. If he responds to questions about his own allegedly abusive sexual history by going after Bill Clinton—as he did when he was first approached about the groping recording—then our presidential cycle could devolve to a new low.

As always, pundits and politicos will be watching closely. Below are their live tweets, drawn from a list of top accounts curated by Slate. Those who lean left are on the left; those who lean right are on the right. Enjoy the instant spin.


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