Donald’s great escape: Trump’s all-out attack on the Clintons for their sexual past as he says Bill abused women and Hillary ‘attacked those women viciously’ – and she responds by calling him a liar and a racist
Second presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump has taken place in St Louis
The two candidates locked horns throughout the bitter debate, which Trump backers said he won
Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani described the night as a ‘home run’, for Trump in the spin room
Clinton opened saying she is concerned about ‘some of the things being said and done in this campaign’
Trump said the controversial remarks he made in 2005 that were revealed Friday were ‘locker room talk’
However, moderator Anderson Cooper pulled Trump up on it, saying he ‘bragged’ about assaulting women
Donald Trump also told Hillary Clinton that should would be in jail if he was in charge of the country’s laws
The Republican also accused the moderators of being biased against him, saying it was ‘three on one’
Before the debate, Trump held a press conference with women who have accused Bill Clinton of rape
The woman sat in the front row for the debate – just feet from Clinton, the woman they earlier condemned
By DAVID MARTOSKO, U.S. POLITICAL EDITOR FOR DAILYMAIL.COM, IN ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI and GEOFF EARLE, DEPUTY U.S POLITICAL EDITOR FOR DAILYMAIL.COM IN ST LOUIS, MISSOURI and LIAM QUINN FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 20:13 EST, 9 October 2016 | UPDATED: 04:27 EST, 10 October 2016
The debate night that will be discussed for generations in Political Science classes – and Women’s Studies seminars – ended with Republican Donald Trump landing more punches than Democrat Hillary Clinton, and successfully deflecting attention successfully away from a two-day-old crisis about graphic sexual language that threatened to derail his White House bid.
