#DebateNight: 5 Reasons Donald Trump Met the Low Bar in First Face-to-Face [VIDEOS]

#DebateNight: 5 Reasons Donald Trump Met the Low Bar in First Face-to-Face [VIDEOS]

After much “expert” punditry and nervous handwringing by just about everyone plugged in to this wacky campaign season, the first face-to-face debate finally arrived last night between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. And though the liberal prognosticators are out in force insisting that their girl won the first head-to-head wrangle of the 2016 election hands down, that’s not what every viewer is saying. So without further ado—and with the caveat that Trump was always my 17th choice—here are the five reasons why I think Trump (kinda) won, or at least met the low bar, their first go ’round:

Clinton-Trump Debate Number One. (Photo Credit: Business Insider)
Clinton-Trump Debate Number One, moderated by NBC’s Lester Holt. (Photo Credit: Business Insider)

1. Though through much of the debate Trump was clearly on the defensive and failed to smack Clinton with the freebies she handed to him on a silver platter, he tried to stay on message, and managed not to utter the words “Crooked Hillary” or pound her on her own bullying of the victims of Bill Clinton’s sexual predation following her predictable playing of the “sexist” card.

On the core issues: While oft-smug Hillary promised a continuance of Barack Obama’s tax and spend policies (she calls them “investments,” of course), green energy boondoggle, and feckless foreign policy, Trump proposed significant tax cuts, tapping into the energy we have here at home, and taking a tougher stance on ISIS that will once and for all eradicate them. He repeatedly hit her on her culpability for the rise of ISIS:

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#DebateNight: Moderator Lester Holt Seems Kind of Overwhelmed [VIDEO]

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#DemDebate:  All White Candidates, Average Age 64.7!

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