What happened last night?
On Hillary’s poise: How does she do it? Michelle Goldberg would like to know.
On Hillary’s record: In threatening to lock up his political opponent if he becomes President, Trump “promised to rip up the foundations of liberal democracy for the sake of getting off a good attack line,” Jamelle Bouie writes.
On his taxes: Did Trump admit that he hasn’t paid federal personal income taxes for years? Yes, Helaine Olen argues. He sure did.
On energy: Daniel Gross looks at Trump’s response to audience member (and Internet phenom) Kenneth Bone’s question about energy policy, and finds that Trump’s dark picture of an energy sector hit hard by federal regulation is totally inaccurate. If anything is hurting energy companies, it’s their own overproduction, Gross argues.
On Trump’s supposedly wonderful offspring: Hillary has no obligation to respect Donald Trump, Jr., who recirculates white supremacist Internet memes on the regular, Ben Mathis-Lilley writes.
The moderators: Did a fine job, Isaac Chotiner observes. But at this point in this alternate-reality election, there’s nothing Martha Raddatz and Anderson Cooper could have done to make Sunday night any less painful.
For fun (?): Every time Trump whined.
Like a little baby,
Rebecca
P.S. Here’s some small bit of evidence, in the form of an NBC/WSJ poll released today, that The Tape is hurting Trump.
