What matters is whether Trump has learned his lesson and does some debate prep next time....
Since every objective poll showed him winning, perhaps not preparing is the way to go?
Pray America wakes
“What matters is whether Trump has learned his lesson and does some debate prep next time....”
He also needs to stop taking the bait and taking things personally!
Fair format for future debates:
8 questions from the DNC (3 to their own party’s candidate 3 to opponent’s and 2 identical questions asked of both candidates)
8 questions from the RNC (3 to their own party’s candidate 3 to opponent’s and 2 identical questions asked of both candidates)
2 questions from the top rated conservative radio host
2 questions from the top rated liberal radio host
ditto with top liberal and conservative TV hosts. (two each)
Moderator keeps the time clock... and READS questions...
Democrats would NEVER allow a debate where moderators were ALL Republican (in name AND belief)...
Fair format for future debates:
8 questions from the DNC (3 to their own party’s candidate 3 to opponent’s and 2 identical questions asked of both candidates)
8 questions from the RNC (3 to their own party’s candidate 3 to opponent’s and 2 identical questions asked of both candidates)
2 questions from the top rated conservative radio host
2 questions from the top rated liberal radio host
ditto with top liberal and conservative TV hosts. (two each)
Moderator keeps the time clock... and READS questions...
In my opinion, Trump succeeded in what was the primary visual of this debate watched by millions of people, to look Presidential and being able to take the heat. He was restrained, he came off as passionate and sincere versus Hillary who was arrogant in her holier-than-thou attitude. He will be a different person at the next debate.
Well, it is kind of hard to prep when one doesn't know the questions or topics before hand.
Hillary could prep because she did know. Her answers were too scripted and pat. Like she was either reading them or had memorized them.
Remember, she didn't hang around to answer question from the press. Why? Because she didn't know what she would be asked and that would cause her to freeze up.
Hence, a loose but very alert Donald Trump--not trying to remember a canned response-- could have hit Mrs. Clinton's confiscatory tax policy, from any of that vast array of contextual factors such as:
1. My tax plan is not giving anyone anything. It has to do with letting people keep more of the fruits of their own labor, to spend in building the economy; or
2. Mrs. Clinton has forgotten that we won the Cold War. We do not confiscate the fruits of other people's labor; or
3. What is "fair," about imposing punitive tax rates on people who achieve? The high income tax payers will pay much more taxes even with a flat tax rate, applicable to all. Confiscatory taxes are just plain theft; or
4. Your war on success is a glorification of envy & resentment. You encourage a form of covetousness; a self-defeating grievance mentality rather than a constructive desire to emulate what has been the key to success for others--the exploitation of prospective voters by the demagoguery that destroyed Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany, and which is now destroying Venezuela: or
5. Mrs. Clinton does not understand how big businessmen pass on high taxes to the small investors & consuming public. If you look at the rising trajectory of enormous Corporate pay packages, you will see that they took off in the pre-Reagan era of confiscatory tax rates--in effect putting the pay packages at a level, where after taxes they would still exceed the buying power of the pay packages before the era of excessive graduation in the marginal rates. Thus the taxes ultimately come out of the pockets of the small stockholders & the consumers of Corporate products.
I could go on, suggesting dragging in the Clinton Foundation; the Totalitarian massacres of people targeted in the upper 1% of certain countries, etc., or a wide variety of other contextual possibilities; but this should illustrate the point.
“What matters is whether Trump has learned his lesson and does some debate prep next time....”
-—I agree! I posted a thread over the weekend “Unconventional Debate Prep” and stated that my biggest worry was Trump wasn’t preparing for that debate and it could cost him. And I was called every name possible LOL
So, like you, I hope Trump has learned and will do some prep work for next debate. I think he did enough Monday to not lose ground but he didn’t do enough to put election away like I was hoping he would do.
TRUMP needs to clean-up the breathing noise on the microphone feed.
I think Trump relates to the working class and his demeanor in the debate was to take the unfair hits and put a check on an temptation to over react and let his supporters see him as statesman-like. He took a page out of Reagan.
I’m calling this his “rope-a-dope” strategy. Let the opponents (MSM, Hitlary, etc.) wear themselves out thinking they have him on the ropes. They’re helping him prove he can do what they said he couldn’t do - take a punch.