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Clinton Excels in Debate by Laying Traps on Trump’s Temperament

Throughout the debate, Clinton managed to get under Trump's skin.

Bloomberg business news — The First 2016 Presidential Debate in 3 Minutes

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Margaret Talev and

September 27, 2016, 5:18 AM UTCUpdated onSeptember 27, 2016, 10:34 AM UTC

Donald Trump had one job: Don’t take the bait.

But he let Hillary Clinton get under his skin minutes into their first presidential debate Monday night, first by her suggestion that he owed his success to his father’s money, and he only got more agitated as the primetime debate at Hofstra University wore on.

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