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Trump vs Clinton: The verdicts on the final debate

Donald Trump grabbed the headlines in last night’s debate by refusing to say whether he’d accept the result in the presidential election if he lost. But who actually came out on top in the showdown between Clinton and Trump? On Coffee House, Freddy Gray says Trump failed to land the knockout punch he needed – and many others agreed.

The New York Times said Trump showed a contempt for democracy in his remarks about the American electoral system. In its editorial, the paper said that the Republican candidate was ‘bullying’ throughout and offered ’another exercise in narcissism, bombast and mendacity’. Yet while the Times concluded that Hillary won, the paper sounded more hopeful than assured in whether others would agree:

‘One could only hope that this might be the last grand display of his gross unfitness to be president’

In its editorial, the Los Angeles Times described the Republican candidate as ‘Little Trump’.

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