The post-debate spin from the Trump campaign and its surrogates has begun, and it’s nothing short of hilarious to watch.
Take for example campaign manager Kellyanne Conway, who was a guest on the MSNBC show Morning Joe earlier today. Host Joe Scarborough began the discussion by telling Conway:
“As we said before, you judged this by all past debate standards, Hillary Clinton won, and most of us around here believe that. But you don’t judge Donald Trump by those standards, do you think he connected with the base or found new voters?”
Rather than answer the question, Conway replied:
“There was no knockout punch by Hillary Clinton. As much as her ability to tell us all everything she learned in preparation for Donald Trump. She really needed to force him to make a huge mistake that would be the headline this morning, and she did not. I felt sometimes, the camera, she was speaking and she looked a little glib, almost like why am I on the stage with this man.”
Then again, many of us were wondering why a buffoon like Donald Trump was on the stage with a person as accomplished as Hillary Clinton. As GOP operative Steve Schmidt informed Conway, Sarah Palin “looked like Henry Kissinger” when compared to the incoherent performance Trump gave on foreign policy and national security issues.
Conway could only respond that she was proud Trump didn’t take the low road at the end of the debate (because he’s taken it so often in other debates and all along the campaign trail) when it came to personal issues, asserting:
“I have to say, certainly as a woman, I appreciated the restraint at the end, and I am not sure I would have been able to exercise it myself. To tell Hillary Clinton after she accused him about women, and I was prepared to go rough tonight and I am not going to do it because of your husband and daughter are here, and that’s a great temperament.”
So because the Orange Menace wasn’t quite as much of an asshat as normal, we’re supposed to praise him? Just how low can we set the bar for this clown?
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