Pros And Cons Of The Presidential Debate

The Presidential Debate In the presidential debate on October 9th 2016 the candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald J. Trump were asked questions by the audience that they had picked out and some were from social media. Hillary brought up the video of Donald from eleven years ago when he talked about women in a derogatory way, and it was said that he had did it to women also. Candidate Trump was then asked if he had ever done what was said about women to women and he responded that he had not. He did apologize to the people of the United States and to his family for the rude comments and he regrets saying them. Donald said, “I have great respect for women, nobody has more respect for women than I do” (Trump). He then brought up the past of former president Bill Clinton, about how he raped women and Hillary had hatred towards them and how she treated the victims in a rude way. Hillary then respond by paraphrasing first lady Michelle Obama’s speech and saying, “When they go low, you go high” (Clinton). …show more content…
She then said, “Then it’s a good thing that he was not in charge of the laws in the country” (Clinton). He then fired back and said, “Because you’d be in jail” (Trump). When that was said cheers from the crowd filled the house. Hillary thought he was trying to stray away from his own campaign by bringing up the emails again her. Donald felt as if the moderators were teaming up against him. After everything had settled back down the next question dealt with Islam and how to stop, and Trump started talking about what he called “radical Islamic terrorists” and went back to the mass shooting in