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Trump Stems The Bleeding At Debate

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Matt K. Lewis Senior Contributor
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Overnight polls are showing that Hillary Clinton won last night’s presidential debate, but I scored it differently. Plagued by scandal, Donald Trump stemmed the bleeding. Instead of Trump’s campaign being effectively over, he lives to fight another day—and that, I think, constitutes something of a win.

As I wrote in my Roll Call column, “this campaign continues. And, if you were paying attention this weekend, that wasn’t necessarily a foregone conclusion. In fact, it was an act of prestidigitation that Harry Houdini might have been proud of.”

This morning, I was on CNN’s New Day to discuss. Here’s my take on the debate (in 53 seconds)…

Matt K. Lewis