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on October 10, 2016 in World News

Half a Dozen News Sites Stop Polling Their Readers on Who Won the Presidential Debate

by Ezra Dulis Half a dozen news outlets skipped posting snap polls after the second 2016 presidential debate on Sunday — most likely because Donald Trump touted his dominance of their polls after the first debate in September. The first presidential debate was a tough one for Republican presidential candidate Trump, but he publicly declared victory by citing a slew of unscientific online polls where respondents said he beat his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton. The Daily Mail rounded up the results of many of these snap polls, as well, with a headline blaring “Trump won debate by a landslide.” Such a great honor…. View Article

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on October 10, 2016 in World News

Yes, Hillary Clinton Said She Wants to Put ‘Coal Miners Out of Business’

by Jerome Hudson At the second presidential debate, while discussing the topic of energy, fossils fuels, and jobs, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said Hillary Clinton “wants to put all the miners out of business.” Fact-Check: TRUE During a March 13, CNN Town Hall in Columbus, Ohio, Clinton said, “We’re going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business.” Clinton continued to explain that “we’ve got to move away from coal and all the other fossil fuels, but I don’t want to move away from the people who did the best they could to produce the energy that we relied on.” Ohio, a key battleground state, was the ninth largest… View Article

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on October 10, 2016 in World News

Debate Moderators Interrupt Trump 26 Times — Over Twice as Much as Clinton

by Charlie Spiering CNN’s Anderson Cooper and ABC’s Martha Raddatz, the moderators in the second presidential debate, didn’t waste time trying to block Donald Trump. According to the Republican National Committee, the moderators interrupted Trump 26 times, and only interrupted Hillary Clinton 12 times — less than half the times they interrupted Trump. “Please allow her to respond. She didn’t talk while you talked,” Cooper scolded Trump during the debate. Later he did it to Trump again: “Please allow her to respond. She didn’t talk while you talked,” he said. When both of the moderators tried to move past a… View Article

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on October 10, 2016 in World News

Donald Trump’s Debate Win Propels Him Toward White House

by Matthew Boyle It wouldn’t be Trumpian if there weren’t any fireworks. Donald Trump, the 2016 GOP presidential nominee, crushed his Democratic opponent Hillary Rodham Clinton in Sunday evening’s debate at Washington University in St. Louis—propelling him closer to the White House and past, perhaps, the roughest stretch of his campaign yet. “It was an absolute home run for Mr. Trump,” Jason Miller, Trump’s senior communications adviser, told Breitbart News in the spin room after the debate. “This was a game-changing victory. You know what? The underdog is back.” Several key exchanges in the debate proved Trump to be the… View Article

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