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7:05 PM ET, September 27, 2016

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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Debate breaks record as most-watched in U.S. history  —  Monday night was the most-watched debate in American history.  —  More than 80 million people tuned in to see Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump face off, setting a new record in the sixty year history of televised presidential debates.
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Ben Collins / The Daily Beast:
Donald Trump's Online Trolls Turn on Their ‘God Emperor’  —  One of Donald Trump's most ardent fringe message boards appeared to turn on its candidate of choice during Monday night's debate, saying he “got played” and that “this was not supposed to happen.”  —  4chan, the alt-right forum …
Discussion: ThinkProgress, Vox, Heat Street and The Week
CNN:
Post-debate poll: Hillary Clinton takes round one  —  (CNN)Hillary Clinton was deemed the winner of Monday night's debate by 62% of voters who tuned in to watch, while just 27% said they thought Donald Trump had the better night, according to a CNN/ORC Poll of voters who watched the debate.
Fox News:
Online polls declare Trump debate winner, despite media consensus for Clinton  —  If polls only included media pundits, Hillary Clinton would have won Monday's debate by a landslide, but online surveys had Donald Trump as the yuge winner.  —  The Drudge Report poll had 80 percent …
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Clinton Won The Debate, Which Means She's Likely To Gain In The Polls  —  Democrats woke up on Monday to a spate of bad polls for Hillary Clinton, which brought Donald Trump to perhaps his closest position yet in the Electoral College.  They had reason to go to bed feeling a lot better.
Andrew Couts / The Daily Dot:
4chan and Reddit bombarded debate polls to declare Trump the winner  —  You may be getting trolled right now without even knowing it.  —  Donald Trump supporters artificially manipulated the results of online polls to create a false narrative that the Republican nominee won the first presidential debate on Monday night.
McClatchy Washington Bureau:
After presidential debate, Clinton falters among some focus group voters in swing state  —  CHARLOTTE, N.C.  —  Kae Roberts and Jay Eardly were leaning toward Hillary Clinton before Monday night's debate.  —  By the end, they had both pulled away.  —  John Kokos and Hank Federal were undecided going in, potential Clinton backers.
Discussion: RedState
Ted Cruz / Facebook:
Tonight, a clear contrast was drawn between the two nominees.  Tonight, Hillary Clinton made it clearer than ever that if elected President, our future will continue on the same path that is hurting millions of Americans.  —  If Clinton is elected, we know that the havoc Obamacare is wreaking …
TIME:
Vote Now: Who Won the First Clinton-Trump Debate?
Discussion: CNBC, The Daily Caller and Daily Wire
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
The first Trump-Clinton presidential debate transcript, annotated
Neil W. McCabe / Breitbart:
Pat Caddell: Breitbart/Gravis Post-Debate Flash Poll Shows Hillary Clinton Won Slightly; Trump Gains ‘Plausibility’
Discussion: Washington Post, Slate and Hot Air
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
The real Donald Trump showed up at Hofstra. Republicans must live with it.
Discussion: Politico
Los Angeles Times:
Clinton-Trump first debate updates: Our scorers give it to Clinton
Discussion: BillMoyers.com and Latino USA
Nikita Vladimirov / The Hill:
Trump: I won every debate poll except CNN
Tom Kludt / CNN:
Campaign manager: Trump does not believe climate change is man made
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Giuliani: Clinton ‘too stupid to be president’  —  Hillary Clinton's decision to stand by her husband and attack former White House intern Monica Lewinsky when news of a sexual relationship between the two broke in 1998 prove that the former secretary of state is “too stupid to be president,” Rudy Giuliani said Monday night.
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Trump points fingers after shaky debate  —  Donald Trump's long night on Long Island morphed into a day of finger-pointing Tuesday, as he revived his brashest personal style to explain an erratic debate performance against Hillary Clinton.  —  The Republican presidential nominee …
Discussion: ABC News and NBC News
Fox News:
2003 clip backs up Trump on Iraq War opposition  —  After all the clamor for moderators to fact-check the candidates during Monday night's presidential debate, Donald Trump flipped the script on Lester Holt by rejecting his assertion Trump backed the war in Iraq - and history backs The Donald.
Benjamin Siegel / ABC News:
Trump Missed Opportunities Against Clinton in First Debate, Republicans Say
Discussion: Politico
Prachi Gupta / Cosmopolitan:
Former Miss Universe Alicia Machado Won't Be Defined by Donald Trump's Fat-Shaming  —  When Hillary Clinton called out her opponent's sexism at the first presidential debate, she highlighted a woman who had experienced it firsthand.  —  In the final minutes of the first presidential debate …
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New York Times:
Shamed and Angry: The Beauty Contestant Donald Trump Mocked for Her Weight
Ezra Klein / Vox:
The first debate featured an unprepared man repeatedly shouting over a highly prepared woman  —  The coherence gap between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump was devastating.  —  The first presidential debate featured a man who didn't know what he was talking about repeatedly shouting over a woman who was extraordinarily prepared.
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Salena Zito / New York Post:
How Trump won over a bar full of undecideds and Democrats  —  More On:  —  YOUNGSTOWN, Pa. - Ken Reed sat down at main bar of the Tin Lizzy tavern with two things in mind, to dig into the tavern's oversized cheese steak and watch the presidential debate.  —  “I am hungry and undecided in that order …
Steve Harrison / The Charlotte Observer:
Charlotte mayor faces furious crowd at City Council meeting  —  A furious crowd of citizens criticized and often shouted down Charlotte City Council on Monday night, calling for resignations across the city and chanting, “Hands Down!  Shoot Back!” and “No Justice, No Peace!”
Discussion: Washington Post, AOL and ABC News
Roger Hagy / University of Tennessee College of Law:
Statement from Dean Melanie Wilson about Professor's Tweet  —  Following Professor Glenn Reynolds's tweet and my public response last week, I began an investigation that included an examination of the facts, policies in the university's Faculty Handbook, and the law.
John Podhoretz / New York Post:
Trump's debate incompetence a slap in the face to his supporters  —  MORE FROM:  —  Hillary Clinton was boring and exceptionally well-prepared.  Donald Trump was exciting but embarrassingly undisciplined.  He began with his strongest argument — that the political class represented …
 
 
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Jeremy Herb / Politico:
McCain will vote to override veto of 9/11 bill
Discussion: The Hill
Aaron Rupar / ThinkProgress:
Federal judge blocks Illinois' same-day voter registration program
Discussion: electionlawblog.org
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump considers biggest donation yet to his own campaign
Discussion: Political Wire
Edmund Kozak / LifeZette:
Hillary Clings to Myth of Systemic Racism in First Debate
Mark Berman / Washington Post:
Trump incorrectly says murders are up in New York
Michael Warren / Weekly Standard:
Trump Won't Disavow Conspiracy Theory That Cruz's Dad Helped Kill JFK
Discussion: Daily Wire and The Week
 Earlier Items: 
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Comey: FBI looked ‘hard’ for obstruction of justice in Clinton email probe
Discussion: Mother Jones
Steven Shepard / Politico:
Insiders: Hillary won
Evan Sernoffsky / San Francisco Chronicle:
2 Folsom Fair tourists attacked in apparent hate crime
Discussion: Raw Story and Los Angeles Times
Rachael Bade / Politico:
Hill Republicans: At least Trump didn't blow it
Discussion: Daily Kos
Mary Jordan / Washington Post:
When Trump said that not paying taxes ‘makes me smart,’ undecided voters in N.C. gasped
Discussion: The Resurgent
Scott Adams' Blog:
I Score the First Debate  —  Trump and Clinton debated each …
Discussion: Vox Popoli
 

 
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