One month to go, Donald Trump pulls a Houdini and revives his campaignBy Andrew Malcolm McClatchy Washington Bureau/(TNS)
Published Oct. 12, 2016
Donald Trump's Rocky-like debate comeback: How he attacked Hillary Clinton with a command of issue specifics. How focused he was recounting the nation's economic, political and foreign policy ills and tying her to them. And how Trump kept her on defense much of the night.
And, surprisingly, how complimentary he was at the end, saying he admired a fighter and she's a fighter.
Instead, we're writing about how the unmasked crude Trump merely managed to save his a-- within the deeply doubting party of Lincoln, whose members had begun looking for lifeboats a month out from E Day.
Strategically, Trump suddenly became the Prince of Pivoting, sometimes even pivoting from a pivot.
This second debate was personal, to be sure, like no Lincoln-Douglas debate almost exactly 158 years ago just upriver....
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