The Real Donald Trump Stood Up on Sunday Evening and Demolished Hillary Clinton

Donald Trump did it last night -- he bounced back from Hillary and Bill Clintons' time-tried defense tactic of "smear-and-destroy" all enemies to beat Hillary in a debate that many had thought would be Trump's Last Stand. Mike Huckabee got it right. The second presidential debate "wasn't pretty" and "more like a street fight than boxing," but Donald Trump won it hands down. Huckabee said on his Facebook page : "Trump fearlessly took the game straight to Hillary and made the next 30 days about her repeated lies and corruption and not his disgusting comments of 11 years ago. He often reminded people why he won the primaries by unapologetically hitting at failed policies of the elites and establishment from both parties. Trump needed to show contrast and he did. He is more a chain saw than a scalpel, but his cuts drew blood....Trump won the debate. That much I know." ~~~~~~Contrast that with Speaker Paul Ryan's continuing effort to be on the Trump Train without actually saying anything positive about Trump. Ryan told rank-and-file Republicans in a Monday conference call that he will not rescind his endorsement of Donald Trump for now but that he will not campaign with the GOP presidential nominee. Ryan may replace Quisling as the perfect collaborator -- help the WWII enemy while pretending he is on the side of freedom and democracy. ~~~~~~ But, the Trump Train doesn't have time to worry about Ryan or his fellow "Hillary Travelers." Dick Morris, who knows the Clintons as well as anyone, said Trump "really got off the canvas" on Sunday in the second debate with Hillary : "He was down for the count when this debate started," Morris told J.D. Hayworth on the Newsmax TV Post-Debate Special, but : "The first question came in and was basically an irrelevant softball -- and neither one did much with it. Then, [Anderson] Cooper asked the question about the tapes -- and Hillary talked about it. Then, Trump absolutely killed her on that. He took this issue off the table, put the Clinton treatment of women on the table -- and then made the emails the centerpiece of the campaign. It was just terrific." Morris concluded : "Everything he failed to do in the first debate, he did in this debate. I predict, he’s going to be ahead coming out of tonight." ~~~~~~ Republicans praised Donald Trump's performance in the second debate, and are hopeful he can use the momentum to improve his position. Politico polled activists, operatives and strategists from both parties in battleground states after the debate -- the findings were that 75% of Republicans thought Trump gave the better performance, while 92% of Democrats favored Hillary Clinton. One Iowa Republican who took the anonymous survey said : "I'm shocked, but he won the debate. He had her on her heels throughout." A Michigan Republican told Politico : "Donald Trump did what he had to do. He laid out a Chris Christie, New Hampshire-style indictment of Hillary Clinton in the first 30 minutes when the most eyeballs were watching and before the early deadline for Monday's newspapers." A Colorado Republican said : "After a disastrous couple of weeks, Trump had to knock it out of the park. While he probably stopped the bleeding with the base, he didn't pick up any new votes." Democrats polled by Politico agreed that while Trump improved since the first debate with Clinton, he focused on speaking to his base and not on picking up support in other demographics. Among political commentators, as we would expect, Trump won over conservatives, but not liberals. RedState's Jay Caruso said : "She had a chance to throw a knockout punch at Donald Trump and instead looked more at times like Glass Joe from Nintendo's Punch-Out. I lost count how many times she said to go to her website or whine about the lack of 'fact checking' as the debate went on. Trump had her on the ropes several times." The Republican National Committee agreed, saying Monday that it is fully behind Trump. ~~~~~~ Some of the memorable Trump hits?? Saying he was embarrassed by the video but dismissed it as "locker room talk," then going on the offensive to say that President Bill Clinton had done worse to women : "Mine are words and his are actions." said Trump, who appeared before the debate with women who have accused Bill Clinton of sexual misconduct. When Hillary lied about her secret Wall Street speeches, trying to explain away her belief that Presidents should have a “public” and a “private” policy as admiration for Abraham Lincoln, Trump called her out, saying : “Honest Abe never lied. That’s the big difference between Abraham Lincoln and you.” He caught her again when the moderators tried to go after him for a 3 a.m. tweet about a former Miss Universe, answering that Hillary’s 3 a.m. moment – when she failed to answer the call from US Ambassador Christopher Stevens, under attack in Benghazi, had cost Stevens his life. Concerning Hillary's private email server, he said : "You ought to be ashamed of yourself." When Clinton said, "You know it’s just awfully good that someone with the temperament of Donald Trump is not in charge of the law in this country,” Trump shot back : “Because you’d be in jail.” And, when Clinton insisted there was “no evidence” that her server had been hacked and that any classified information had ended up in the wrong hands, adding : “I take classified material very seriously,” Trump said: “You said it was fine to delete 33,000 emails. I don’t think so.” Then, Clinton took her fallback position for the evening, repeating at every Trump gotcha : “Look it’s just not true.” Listening to Hillary Sunday night, one finally came to believe that if Trump had said the sun is hot, she would have said, "That's a lie." It was Donald Trump who was hot in the second debate. His spontaneous one-liners were so far superior to Clinton's memorized cookie cutter answers that she didn't stand a chance to lay a glove on him. How will the turncoat Republican elites who jumped on the excuse of the tape to abandon him get back on the Trump Train??? By eating a whole lot of Humble Pie as others get the best Trump administration jobs after he wins on November 8. ~~~~~~ Trump complained about moderators Anderson Cooper of CNN and Martha Raddatz of ABC News, saying the debate was "three on one." Yet, Donald Trump’s performance on Sunday night showed that he can stay extraordinarily focused under intense hostile fire, a quality Americans want in their President. Trump also demonstrated his ability to assimilate vast amounts of information, and dole it out calmly and carefully, while staying focused on issues Americans care about -- jobs, the economy, and keeping America safe from ISIS terrorists. Moderators Anderson Cooper and Martha Raddatz, especially, did their best to help Hillary out of her jam, interrupting Trump dozens of times, trying to box him into a corner. When Trump responded to a question about his earlier calls for a ban on Moslem immigration by saying it had “morphed into extreme vetting,” Raddatz cut him off and became his angry opponent, demanding : “And why did it morph into that? No, did you -- no, answer the question. Do you still believe...” That quote is disjointed because Raddatz was angrily talking over Trump as he answered her question, which he finally did, calmly and rationally, after Raddatz retreated from her attack. This was the performance Trump supporters have been waiting for since the primaries. ~~~~~~ Like most of the networks, the CNN pundits’ panel spanned the full spectrum of Trump-haters. In published commentaries just after the debate, they universally claimed against all evidence that Trump had “lost” the debate and predicted a dismal defeat in November. CNN missed totally that the desire of Trump supporters throughout the campaign has been, “I can hardly wait to watch Donald Trump demolish Hillary in a one-on-one debate.” The mainstream media polls predictably found that Hillary Clinton was the debate winner. CNN even admitted that its survey sample was "slightly" more Democratic than Republican -- "slightly" was never defined, but since it was CNN, we can be sure the poll's skew toward Democrats was closer to 25% than 2%. So, not surprisingly, Clinton was declared winner of the CNN/ORC snap poll, with 57% giving her the win and 34% doing so for Trump. In what seems more reasonable, according to viewers polled by the nonpartisan global market research firm YouGov, 47% of voters picked Clinton as the debate winner, compared with 42% who said Trump won. Pollster Frank Luntz -- who had been supporting the “Dump Trump” Republicans just 24 hours before the debate -- had to face reality. He convened a focus group of 30 undecided voters to watch Sunday’s debate and by half-time, more than half of them felt that Trump was winning. When it was all over, Luntz announced that 21 of the thirty found Trump convincing, while only 9 said they were swayed by Hillary. ~~~~~~ But, in today's social media age, Donald Trump crushed Hillary Clinton in Twitter mentions after Sunday night’s presidential debate. Trump accounted for 64% of Twitter conversation about the debate candidates, with Clinton accounting for 36%. Trump also dominated the post-debate conversation on Facebook. After the debate, he was the most talked about trending topic on the Facebook platform. A Facebook spokesperson said that with 19.8 million people producing 92.4 million likes, comments, shares and posts related to the debate, the clash between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton was the most-discussed debate in the company’s history. Trump, as is often the case online, dominated the conversation. Facebook estimated that he accounted for 76% of the chatter while 24% belonged to Clinton. Twitter said discussion of the debate had broken a record on its platform, as well. More than 17 million tweets were sent relating to the debate, according to the company. As on Facebook, Trump’s break with Pence generated the most chatter on Twitter. Trump’s comments that he was a “gentleman” and that if he were in charge, Clinton would be in jail rounded out the top three moments of the debate on both social networks. ~~~~~~ Dear readers, perhaps the single most important vote in favor of Donald Trump came from Mike Pence early on Monday morning. Pence dismissed reports that he would step down as Donald Trump's running mate after the damaging video pushed other Republicans to withdraw support for their nominee. Pence told CNN : "It's absolutely false to suggest that at any point in time we considered dropping off this ticket. It's been the greatest honor of my life." Later, on Fox & Friends, Pence explained the false rumors : "These rumors just furrow around presidential campaigns. It really is remarkable." Some observers had begun to question whether Pence would stay on the ticket after the video surfaced on Friday. The Indiana governor condemned Trump's remarks toward women and withdrew from a campaign appearance with Speaker Paul Ryan in Wisconsin over the weekend. But Pence said Monday that Trump has shown true remorse for his comments, which included saying he could do anything he wanted to women because he is a "star." Mike Pence, who is a truly Christian conservative, as well as a tested, solid GOP politician, said : "I encouraged him to express what I believe is his sincere, personal remorse, and he did that Friday night. I wanted to give him time to show his heart on Sunday night. I thought he did that. That kind of vulnerability and transparency is very moving to millions of Americans." The Trump Train is on the move again, and Mike Pence is on it. We are winning, but we will have to fight hard to counter the leftist-Progressive-Democrat attack lies aimed at destroying Donald Trump. Hillary & Hacks lie and then "swear to it" for one good reason -- they are losing and they know it. The Washington Times called the Trump victory one of biblical proportions : “Not since Daniel entered the lion’s den has any mortal walked into a room with a fierce political machine and a monolithic media more resolutely against him....The release of this decade-old tape, of course, was perfectly calculated between the Clinton campaign and the shameless media to extinguish any hopes of a Trump resurgence in Sunday night’s debate. Well...the Donald Trump that showed up for Sunday night’s debate utterly destroyed Hillary Clinton.”