Donald Trump’s Performance Likely Failed to Attract Skeptical Voters, GOP Strategists Say

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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump failed in Monday night’s debate to boost his support among skeptical voters by struggling to deflect Democrat Hillary Clinton’s attack on his treatment of women, strategists in the businessman’s own party said Tuesday.

Mr. Trump opened the first debate of his general-election matchup with an attempt at chivalry, asking his opponent if he could refer to her as “Secretary Clinton.” The effort was short-lived. Mr. Trump referred to the former secretary of state by her first name in the very next question. And by the end of their combative 90-minute meeting Monday, the New York businessman was defending his past comparisons of women to farm animals.

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“Hillary had a good, successful attack on him on women at the end, reminding everyone of the things that he’s said,” said Republican Vin Weber, a former U.S. House member from Minnesota. “If people were paying attention at that point, that reinforced that issue. And I don’t think he did anything over the course of the evening that might win over women.”

Peter Wehner, a veteran of the past three Republican presidential administrations, said, “Clinton did what she needed to do.” “She succeeded in provoking him, and as the evening went on, Trump dug himself into a deeper and deeper hole,” he said. “He did horribly on the birther issue, on not releasing his taxes and on his treatment of women.”

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Mr. Trump himself acknowledged on Fox News on Tuesday morning that his rival got under his skin on the question about his treatment of women.

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http://www.wsj.com/articles/gop-strategists-say-donald-trumps-debate-performance-likely-failed-with-suburban-women-1474993975

(I think that if you google the title you can get the whole story)

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1. ROFL

Yeah, I think that's a safe bet.

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2. ya think?

[meadowlark5]

3. I was listening to MSNBC on satellite radio so couldn't see faces

But there was some Trump surrogate name Boris who sounded like a Russian mob boss. Anyway, he was responding to that part of the debate (after deflecting and non answering tax questions) and said that Hillary had smeared and bullied women - "ask Gennifer Flowers, ask Paula Jones."

Is that one of their strategies for the next debate to try and draw attention away from Trump's misogyny, get these women who knowingly had an affair with a married man, to tell how Hillary talked and treated them? If so, how do you think it will play? Will it become an apples for apples or will it backfire as these women were knowingly having an affair with a married man and women don't take kindly to other women messing with their husbands?

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4. That's putting it mildly.