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The first half hour felt … strange. Calm. Like a real policy debate. Then Chris Wallace asked if Donald Trump would recognize the election as legitimate.
Mike Pesca’s final dispatch from the spin room after presidential debate No. 3 in Las Vegas, with cameos by Rudy Giuliani, Ben Carson, and some very sad Republican staffers.