Ross Douhat, NYTimes, no Trumpster, just said Trump is winning. Twitter seems to think Trump is doing just fine.
Trump could have been better prepared. He would have been less susceptible to being goaded.
For the next two debates, Trump must think of this as a trilateral negotiation for the Presidency: Trump with the voters vs. Hillary with the voters.
As a negotiation, would Trump spend more time preparing if it were for a desired real estate property for his business and he was negotiating with a foreign government for land use?
Trump needs to bring that kind of discipline to the next debate, and to do that he really needs to prepare in a more traditional manner than to expect to just walk in and "wing it."
It will also go a long way towards subliminally proving that he is the master of the art of negotiation, instead of a slugger flailing for an early knockout.
-PJ