Bruce's List
Republicans head for the hills as Trump implodes
Delusional supporters claim debate victory for Donald Trump
Bruce’s List: A daily guide to informed reads.It is almost unbelievable but Donald Trump’s supporters think he may actually have “won” the debate on Sunday night, the second of three as the US presidential election campaign nears its end, with Democrat Hillary Clinton.The two used a Town Hall-style debate, less formal than the first, in the highly personal and nasty exchange that saw Trump at one stage threaten to put Clinton in jail if elected. In the immediate aftermath, Trump supporters claimed victory, although more sober analysis will probably show that what he did was play to his base — Trump diehards willing even to forgive his lewd remarks about women and sexual assault on them captured on tape in 2005 and leaked to the Washington Post late last week.Literally hundreds of Republican politicians, many fearing that his remarks about grabbing women “by the pussy” would hurt their own campaigns for re-election to Congress, have dumped Trump and it seems almost impossible now tha...
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