I think Hillary “won” the debate, or it was a tie. She was more polished and got her talking points out. Trump missed several excellent opportunities to hit her hard. He was more often on defense rather than taking the fight to her. Cybersecurity, for example, should have been a slam dunk for him.
However, I agree with you. It doesn’t matter who had a better technical performance in the debate. What matters is what the candidates stand for, and Hillary Clinton is clearly for more of the same. They are diametrically opposed in where they want to take the country on immigration, trade, taxes, etc. By investments, Hillary means more power to government to pick winners and losers. She means more taxes so that government can distribute to special interests. She wants to take on evil corporations who make the jobs Americans need.
Sorry, but I trust Trump. He’s got a much better vision of where the country needs to go.
Trump may have seemed on defense but was it an opportunity to explain, and pretty well too, some of those nasty commercials away perhaps without spending millions on a counter punch commercial? Now he can run positive, MAGA spots having answered several accusations in front of 100M people. Just a thought on his strategy or at least putting a positive spin on things.