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An objective conclusion is Trump did not do his best.

He failed to take several opportunities to pursue her problems.

I think his strategy is to improve in the 2nd and 3rd debates. I hope.

I think his strategy was to appear calm and relatively unthreatening in the first debate and then keep turning up the heat on his issues in the next debates.

Slow boiling of the frog, so to speak.

An objective conclusion is Trump did not do his best.
He failed to take several opportunities to pursue her problems.

I think his strategy is to improve in the 2nd and 3rd debates. I hope.

I agree. It was very frustrating watching Trump miss a couple of opportunities where he could have hit it out of the park. He needs to do a better job of preparing for the remaining debates, including mock debates with someone who will not pull any punches. He shouldn't memorize his lines the way Hillary did, but he does need to be ready to respond to anything she throws at him.

I don't think he was intentionally laying low with the thought that he will really come out swinging in the next two debates. Last night was probably the biggest audience of the three. If you have a chance to put your opponent away the first time out, then do it.

I think that is accurate. From a base perspective, he did fine, as in he didn’t blow it. But, at least I ,was coming from a perspective where I was expecting/hoping for him to kick the shit out of her at the debate and that did not happen. So a let down of expectations, but not a disaster.