Trump, Clinton stumble in debate dry run
Three weeks until the most important moment of the 2016 contest and she looks uncertain while he sounds uninformed.
By Shane Goldmacher
09/08/16 05:11 AM EDT
NEW YORK — Less than three weeks before the first general election debate, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton shared a stage for the first time on Wednesday night — and neither appeared ready for the brightest lights of 2016 as they flashed the very liabilities that make their backers uneasy.
Clinton wobbled on style. Trump stumbled on substance.
And Republicans, who only weeks ago fretted that the presidential contest was slipping entirely from Trump’s grasp, nonetheless appeared heartened that the race has narrowed to within conceivable striking distance as the latest Real Clear Politics polling average had Clinton’s lead down to 3.1 percentage points, shrunken from a high of 7.9 percentage points on August 9.
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