Its very clear that Lester Holt's main role was to keep Trump from knocking Clinton's block off.
Without his intervention Trump would have knocked her out.
The choice of questions was ridiculously biased as well. Nothing about immigration, refugees, Benghazi, lost emails from private network servers in Colorado bathrooms, Libya, Egypt etc. They spent 20 minutes on the Iraq War and 20 minutes on Obama's birth certificate. Holt set up his very first question with a contrived and fanciful account of the Obama economic successes of the past 8 years.
It was a joke and most Americans who follow this stuff saw what they wanted to see. I just don't think Americans, by and large, care right now about who can win a forensics competition. They don't like Washington politicians and they don't like the way stuff is going right now. It's a change election and Trump is change. If he wins - and he very well might - it will be that folks are just willing to shake things up. Who scores more debating points in a dull event like last night is irrelevant.
I do think, however, the split screen worked against Hillary with all her mugging, fake smiling and bizarre countenance. What the hell was that shoulder shake she had?
Judge Napolitano was smoking something last night if he thinks the event made Hillary more "likeable".
