I told it like it was after the first presidential debate.
Even though it’s no secret I am adamantly pulling for Donald Trump to trounce Hillary Clinton on Election Day, I told you he blew it in Round 1.
Round 2 was a completely different story.
This was a man on a mission. Let’s review:
- Hillary is not only a crook, as he has repeated ad nauseam throughout the campaign, in this debate he announced as president he would instruct his attorney general to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate her misdeeds. Whoa! That’s an attack. (By the way, he did not say, as several CNN “reporters” and “anchors” stated, that he would lock her up or prosecute her.)
- He actually mentioned Bill Clinton’s rape! He talked about the strong accusations of several women he visited with just before the debate – Juanita Broaddrick (brutal rape), Kathleen Willey (sexual assault in the White House) and Paula Jones (sexual harassment by exposing himself to her as governor of Arkansas). He also questioned Hillary’s commitment to children and women by pointing out her defense of a child predator who raped Kathy Shelton when she was 12, questioned her motives and laughed about her on a recording. Listening attentively to those women just prior to the debate, seating them in the audience and raising their issues in front of 100 million people was a stroke of genius – and the right thing to do.
- He pointed out that Hillary is all talk. She’s been a part of the Washington establishment for 30 years and never seems to translate all of her words into better lives for her constituents – particularly women and minorities.
- He challenged her on her reckless disregard for national security as secretary of state – first using an insecure personal server to transmit and receive classified and even top-secret communications and, later, deleting 33,000 of those emails after they were subpoenaed by Congress.
- When it came to the perhaps most important issue of all to be decided in the presidential contest – the future of the U.S. Supreme Court – Hillary revealed her litmus test for incoming justices: defense of Roe v. Wade and repeal of the anti-First Amendment Citizens United decision. Trump didn’t have a litmus test short of a commitment to the U.S. Constitution. It was the only time the word “Constitution” was invoked by a questioner, a moderator or the debaters.
I could go on and on.
It was a slam dunk win – even the anchors and most Democratic analysts had to concede this was a much better performance by Trump.
There is real fear in the Clinton camp today.
It was quite a turnaround, and one Trump needed badly after a chaotic weekend following the infamous and disturbing covert video released Friday.
By the way, as a newsman and a news consumer, I have to give special kudos to Kayleigh McEnany for heroic, spirited and articulate analysis and commentary on CNN. She was the ultimate fact-checker on debate night on any network. Before the debate and after, she set the record straight among all the babble from both CNN’s reporters, anchors and Democratic pundits. Jeffrey Lord was also great. It’s what made CNN’s coverage, although more biased overall, much more interesting to watch than Fox News.
It will be very interesting to watch the polls after this one.
It’s time for all conscious Americans who know it’s time for a change in this country to leave the sidelines and rally behind Trump.
He’s not perfect, but we’ve never had a presidential candidate who was.
What we do know, after 30 years of enduring her in political life, is that Hillary Clinton is totally unqualified and represents, literally, all that is wrong with Washington.
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