Presidential
debate: Hillary Clinton wins second head-to-head against Donald
Trump, poll suggests
Polling
day is now just a month away
Siobhan Fenton
Social Affairs Correspondent
Hillary Clinton has
won the second presidential debate according to voters, the first
opinion poll has found.
The CNN poll found
57 per cent of people feel Ms Clinton won the debate, compared to 34
per cent of voters who felt Donald Trump performed best.
A further poll by
YouGov found 47 per cent of people polled favoured Ms Clinton while
42 per cent backed Mr Trump.
Among people who had
previously been undecided about who they would be casting their vote
for, Clinton also won narrowly by 44 per cent to 41 per cent.
The heated debate
took place following one of the most dramatic and bitter weekends in
the election, after footage emerged of Mr Trump allegedly discussing
groping women. Mr Trump was challenged by the convenor about his
comments. He responded that he was "embarassed" by his
comments but said "I have great respect for women. Nobody has
more respect for women than I do."
Mr Trump responded
by criticising Ms Clinton's husband, former president Bill Clinton,
accusing his of abusing women. In a press conference held before the
debate, Mr Trump sat with alleged victims of Mr Clinton who accused
him of rape and sexual harassment.
“Mine were words,
his was action,” Mr Trump said of Mr Clinton.
“What he's done to
women, there's never been any body in the history of politics in this
nation that's been so abusive to women.”
Mrs Clinton said the
comments made by her Republican rival in the recording represented
“exactly who he is”.
She added: “We've
seen him insult women, we've seen him rate women on their appearance,
ranking them from one to 10, we've seen him embarrass women on TV and
on Twitter.”
The debate was the
second of three televised head-to-head between the two candidates.
The debate took a
'town hall' format, inviting questions from the audience and also
sourcing them from social media.
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