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PETER BRUCE: Clinton trumps Trump on the stump
Bruce’s List: A daily guide to informed reads.Let’s make today a US Presidential Debate Special. One of the most irritating things about time is that all the cool stuff in the US happens when most people are asleep in SA. The next best thing to live television, then, is social media, and I’ve read The New York Times and The Washington Post coverage of the debate. Typically, there isn’t anything they miss or fail to comment on. I’m going to stick with The New York Times, knowing full well that it stridently supports the Democratic candidate in the race, Hillary Clinton, and has no regard for her Republican opponent, the property mogul, Donald Trump. Overall, most pundits seemed to agree that though Clinton started off nervously — who wouldn’t be nervous debating a man who could literally say anything — but ended strongly and basically “won” the debate. But she didn’t bury Trump either, so he’ll be back.But he really is useless, this Trump. At one point Clinton was attacking Trump for...
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