Has Donald Trump just lost the Presidential Election live on national TV?

Donald Trump may have made a huge blunder in his final head-to-head showdown with Democratic presidential rival Hillary Clinton tonight.

In a 90 minute live debate in Los Angeles, he refused to state whether he would accept the result of the election if it went against him.

And with his attitudes towards women in the spotlight, it may not have helped his image with the voters when he interrupted Clinton to say: “Such a nasty woman.”

Trump’s claim that he election has been rigged against him is set to be one of the major talking points of this debate.

Corrupt

He blamed the US media for being “corrupt and dishonest” and accused them of “trying to poison the minds of the voters” against him.

Hillary Clinton responded: “Every time something goes against him, he says that everything is rigged against him. This is how Donald thinks, it is funny but it is also very troubling.”

When debate moderator Chris Wallace asked the Republican nominee: “Will you absolutely accept the result of the election? Trump replied: “I will look at it at the time; I am not looking at anything now. I will look at it at the time.”

One commentator said immediately after the debate: “This is not the rhetoric of someone who thinks they are going to win – it sounds like the words of someone who thinks they have lost already.”

Tonight’s debate started off slowly with it taking about 30 minutes for both Clinton and Trump to hit their stride.

Insults

At that point it changed dramatically and got really personal with both candidates trading verbal blows and insults with each other for the remaining hour.

They clashed on immigration.

Trump: “We need to build a wall (between the US and Mexico.) We have some bad, bad hombres here and we have to get them out.

“Drugs are pouring in through the border. We have no country if we have no borders.”

Clinton: “We should bring undocumented immigrants out from the shadows because putting them into the formal economy will be good because employers can’t exploit them and undercut Americans wages.

Respect

“Donald has used undocumented labor to build the Trump Tower. He underpaid undocumented workers and when they complained, he basically said what a lot of employers do – you complain I’ll get you deported.”

They cashed on Trumps views on woman.

Clinton: “Donald thinks belittling women makes him bigger. He goes after their dignity and self-worth – that’s who Donald is.”

Trump: “Nobody has more respect for women than I do.”

And they spent a lot of time just trading insults. These two examples are typical of many insults which were exchanged during the debate.

Problem

Trump: “Hillary Clinton never gets anything done. The problem is you talk, but you don’t get anything done, Hillary, you don’t.”

Clinton: “On the day when I was in the situation room, monitoring the raid that brought Osama bin Laden to justice, he was hosting the Celebrity Apprentice.”

Trump closed the debate by saying he wanted to make America great again.

He said: “We don’t take care of our veterans. We take care of illegal immigrants, people that come into the country illegally, better than we take care of our vets. That can’t happen.

“I will do more for African-Americans and Latinos than she can ever do in ten lifetimes. All she’s done is talk to the African-Americans and to the Latinos. We cannot take four more years of Barack Obama. And that’s what you get when you get her.”

Clinton closed by saying she was reaching out to all Americans, whether they be Democrats, Republicans or independents.

Privileged

She said: “We need everybody to help make our country what it should be, to grow the economy, to make it fairer, to make it work for everyone.

“I’ve been privileged to see the presidency up close and I know the awesome responsibility of protecting our country and the incredible opportunity of working to try to make life better for all of you.

“I will do everything that I can to make sure that you have good jobs with rising incomes, that your kids have good educations from preschool through college.”

 

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