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Hillary Clinton trumped Donald Trump in the second presidential debate conducted on Monday, according to the CNN/ORC and YouGov polls. While the YouGov poll showed that Clinton won over Trump by a narrow margin, the CNN/ORC poll showed that Clinton held a large lead against Trump, albeit down from the results shown by the same poll after the first debate.
Trump and Clinton on Monday sparred over a number of issues, including Trump's lewd comments about women and Clinton's deleted emails as Secretary of State, in the second presidential debate.
According to YouGovUs' post-debate poll, 47 per cent of voters who tuned in and took part in the poll thought Clinton won the second debate, 42 per cent of them thought Trump had the better night.
According to the CNN/ORC post-debate poll of viewers, 57 per cent thought that Clinton won the second debate, while 34 per cent thought that Trump took the second round.
Clinton's performance in the second debate was slightly below what the CNN/ORC poll showed after the first debate.
According to the same poll of voters who watched the first presidential debate, Clinton had come out on top, with 62 per cent of the voters who tuned in to watch saying she had won. Only 27 per cent of voters who watched the debate had thought that Trump had trumped Clinton.
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THE 2005 TRUMP VIDEO
Trump gets grilled on his lewd comments against women
During the debate, CNN's Anderson Cooper asked about the 2005 video in which Trump made lewd comments about women, saying: "You bragged that you sexually assaulted women -- do you understand that?"
Responding to Cooper, Trump said: "No that's not what I said. This was locker room talk... I am not proud of it but this is locker room talk."
Clinton says 2005 video represents 'exactly' who Trump is
Taking on Trump over the issue of lewd comments, Clinton said: "I've spent a lot of time thinking over the last 48 hours about what we heard and saw."
Clinton said though she had differences on policies and principles with the Republican candidates in the past but for Trump, she said: "...he was not fit to be president and commander in chief."
"I think it's clear to anyone who heard it (video) that it represents exactly who he is. We've seen him rate women on their appearance, ranking them from one to 10... it's not only women, it's not only this video... This is who Donald Trump is," she added.
Last words on the issue
Trump: Referring to allegations of sexual misconduct against Hillary Clinton's husband, he said: “If you look at Bill Clinton, far worse, mine are words and his are action.”
Clinton: Referring to the allegations against her husband, she said: “And I’ll tell you what, I didn’t think I’d say this, but I’m going to say it, and I hate to say it, but if I win, I am going to instruct my attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into your situation.”
Clinton's promise to appoint a special prosecutor was meant for Paula Jones, Kathleen Willey and Juanita Broaddrick, who have each accused her husband of sexual assault. According to the Associated Press, Trump held a pre-debate conference flanked by the three women, who repeated their allegations against Bill Clinton.
CLINTON'S DELETED EMAILS
Trump says he will put Clinton in jail
Trump vowed to launch a special investigation against Clinton over her use of a private email server as Secretary of State, if elected as the US President and ensure she is jailed.
"We are going to get a special prosecutor and we are going to look into it, because you know what? People... Their lives have been destroyed for doing one-fifth of what you have done. And it's a disgrace. And honestly, you ought to be ashamed of yourself," Trump said.
Clinton calls Trump a liar
Clinton accused Trump of lying. "Because everything he just said is absolutely false, but I'm not surprised," she said. "Oh, really?" Trump remarked.
"It is just awfully good that someone with the temperament of Donald Trump is not in charge of the law in our country," Clinton said. "Because you'd be in jail," Trump said in another interruption.
Last words on the issue
Trump: "In my opinion, the people that have been long-term workers at the FBI are furious. There has never been anything like this, where e-mails... And you get a subpoena and after getting the subpoena you delete 33,000 e-mails, and then you acid wash them or bleach them, as you would say, very expensive process."
Clinton: "I've said before, but I'll repeat it, because I want everyone to hear it that was a mistake and I take responsibility for using a personal e-mail account. Obviously, if I were to do it over again, I would not. I'm not making any excuses. It was a mistake. And I am very sorry about that."
Trump: "In my opinion, the people that have been long-term workers at the FBI are furious. There has never been anything like this, where e-mails... And you get a subpoena and after getting the subpoena you delete 33,000 e-mails, and then you acid wash them or bleach them, as you would say, very expensive process."
Clinton: "I've said before, but I'll repeat it, because I want everyone to hear it that was a mistake and I take responsibility for using a personal e-mail account. Obviously, if I were to do it over again, I would not. I'm not making any excuses. It was a mistake. And I am very sorry about that."
CLINTON BACKS OBAMACARE, WHILE TRUMP CALLS IT TOO EXPENSIVE
Clinton called reining in the cost of the Affordable Care Act the highest priority of the next president. She "agrees" that premiums have gotten too high.
Clinton added she wants to save what works with Obamacare but warned repealing it wholesale would lose all those benefits that came with the new healthcare system.
"Obamacare will never work. It's very bad health insurance," Trump said, insisting that it is too expensive.
ON ISLAMOPHOBIA AND TREATMENT OF MUSLIMS
ON ISLAMOPHOBIA AND TREATMENT OF MUSLIMS
Gorbah Hameed, a Muslim, asked the two nominees on how they will help people like her deal with the consequences of being labelled as a threat to the country after the election.
Trump mellows on Muslim ban, opts for 'extreme vetting'
When pressed on whether a ban on Muslims from entering the country was no longer his position, Trump said the ban in "some form has morphed into an extreme vetting from certain areas of the world".
"It's called extreme vetting. We are going to areas like Syria where they're coming in by the tens of thousands because of Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton wants to allow a 550 per cent increase over Obama," Trump said, adding, "People are coming into our country like we have no idea who they are where they're from, what their feelings about our country is and she wants 550 per cent more. This is going to be the great Trojan horse of all time."
Trump said he does not want to see hundreds of thousands of people coming in from Syria "when we know nothing about them, we know nothing about their values, and we know nothing about their love for our country".
Clinton says Islam not the enemy
Clinton shot back, saying: "We are not at war with Islam."
She said Trump's "extremely unwise" and "even dangerous" comments about Muslims are used to recruit terrorists.
Clinton said as president she will not let anyone into the country who she thinks poses a risk to America but a lot of refugees, mostly women and children, cannot be refused entry in the US just because they are Muslims.
"But we will have vetting that is as tough as it needs to be from our professionals, our intelligence experts, and others. But it is important for us as a policy not to say as Donald has said, we're going to ban people based on a religion," Clinton said.