Everyone, even Trump, knew Clinton would try to get under his skin and lure him off message and down the rabbit hole of his vanity. After a few predictable words on the Clinton email scandal —"I think it's disgraceful, and believe me this country thinks it's disgraceful"— he bridged back to his taxes and financial worth. He effectively took a pass on the Clinton email scandal so that he could talk to the American people in the language of a Wall Street banker and use a fancy word like braggadocious. By the end of the week public opinion polls might tell us whether that means she won the debate. But for the moment we can see more clearly that Clinton does better when she is running against a wildly boastful prevaricator than she does when she's running against change.

Source: CBC News September 27, 2016 10:16 UTC