So if Trump is going to bring up “superpredators,” is Hillary Clinton going to bring up the Central Park Five or not? Did anyone prepare her for this? Read more

Also like twenty minutes late here but Trump’s “LaGuardia makes us look like a third world country” line is literally word-for-word a Joe Biden line. Read more

There’s nothing worse than theater criticism in politics, I know, but I don’t think Hillary Clinton is actually capable of extemporaneously reacting to Donald Trump instead of checking off the next rehearsed line, and it’s awful.
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Hillary is repeating memorized mini-speeches (poorly) instead of actually engaging with him. If a bunch of dumbass bloggers live-tweeting this can explain how Trump’s rambling answer just now was full of shit, maybe the Democratic nominee could give it a shot, too. Read more

Fire everyone who prepped Hillary Clinton for this debate. Read more

“I call it ‘Trumped-up trickle-down,’” jesus christ, this is trash. Read more

Trump is doing his exact same usual rambling stream-of-consciousness except in a “serious voice.” Read more

Also Trump is going to try to play to the crowd and he’ll be thrown off if he can’t “read it,” which is basically his one skill as a live performer. Read more

Also let’s keep in mind as we watch that undecided voters are, for the most part, not “undecided” as in “can’t choose between these two” but undecided on whether they will vote at all or cast a protest vote. Read more

David Brooks is on PBS for all the Brooksheads in the house. Read more

have you ever seen the movie Carol Read more