[TBP]

Holt introduced the candidates, they shook each other’s hand, then they went over to shake Holt’s hand.

He spoke to them in a very low tone, probably thinking no one could hear him. But I picked it up. He said, “Mrs. Clinton, good luck. Mr. Trump, good to see you.”

From the very beginning, his bias was showing.

[right way right]

I’m buying it.

[RayChuang88]

I really did notice Hillary was starting to wear down after the first hour of the debate as if the Dr. Theodor Morell-like "happy juice" she took was starting to wear off. That's not going to bode well for her especially in the third debate, which will require her standing up for 90 minutes again.

Also, Trump did this as a "feeling out" debate to probe the way she reacts to everything he says. I expect a quite different Trump at the second debate, since he knows how both Martha Raddatz and Anderson Cooper will ask questions and moderate on their own (Trump likely knows Cooper well, probably because they've met at social functions in the New York City area many times).

[trebb]

Agreed - I saw the grin wiped off her face a few times and the rest saw it too - she knew that a devastating truth had been told (on several occasions) and he didn't allow himself to be pushed around.

Many will be disappointed/fretting because he didn't say a few things that seemed obvious to many viewers but he also didn't allow them to set him off.