Donald Trump needed to win bigly, as he would put it, in Las Vegas. He didn’t, and his campaign is still a disaster. The major news line from the final presidential debate is Trump’s hint that he may not accept the election result – to which Clinton replied that he is ‘talking down democracy.’ But Trump’s promise to ‘keep you in suspense’ on that point is a silly sideshow. The very fact he is making a story over whether he will accept defeat suggests, ironically, that in his muddled psyche he has accepted defeat.
The last presidential TV debate was, overall, the best so far, which isn’t saying much. Trump didn’t go bananas, or at least not fully. There were plenty of mad Trumpy touches: ‘I didn’t even apologise to my wife,’ he said, denying that he had molested women; ‘We have some bad hombres here,’ he said, talking about immigration. ‘Nobody
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