The last time experts tried to decide who “won” a debate, many mistakenly thought that Donald Trump had struggled. Maybe he had in their eyes, but Republican poll respondents thought otherwise. There’s no question that the second Republican debate featured a large number of attacks on Trump. Whether or not they actually diminished him remains to be seen, but Trump didn’t shine brightly during the second GOP confab. CONT.
Geoffrey Skelley, Sabato’s Crystal Ball