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Alex Pareene
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Politics editor, Splinter

so uh Hillary was sort of gifted the chance to promise to increase Social Security benefits (which she did!) but boy Donald Trump angrily muttering “such a nasty woman” was probably the most illuminating line of the night Read more

helllllllll yeahhhhh baby Chris Wallace is asking about entitlement reform boys!!!!!!!! Read more

It was obviously the responsibility of a non-idiot moderator to actually do this but I think back at debate one a useful thing for Hillary Clinton to have done would’ve been to just say “Donald Trump doesn’t ever know what he’s talking about and he’s totally faking it. He’s just faking it.” Read more

It’s obviously way too late now but the one response Hillary Clinton ought to have learned is the Jim Halpert.  Read more

Honestly Hillary should just say “the last time a presidential election was rigged it wasn’t black people in Philly voting forty times it was just Republican state officials and Republican-appoonted Supreme Court justices” Read more

It is a helluva thing to have a presidential debate where one of the questions is “when you lose are you going to say it was rigged?” Read more

Chris kinda put his thumb on the scale a little too obviously just now Read more

“What isn’t fictionalized is her emails.” God. Read more

Hillary Clinton was really doing a fantastic job on that response right up until “America is great because America is good.” Read more

God the Clinton attempts to nail Trump on typical Republican economic doctrine never land Read more

Trump’s dumb attempt at a gotcha just allowed Hillary Clinton to say “I voted for border security” which I’m guessing is a centrist talking point she wanted to hit. Read more

Chris Wallace beginning the debate by asking about 1) Supreme Court 2) guns and 3) abortion is literally a Republican base GOTV campaign. Read more

To shake things up Donald Trump should just come out against guns now just to see what would happen. Read more

“Tweeting happens to be a modern day form of communication.” Read more