Sunday night saw the second live televised debate between US presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. With just a month to go before the election, both Trump and Clinton were expected to throw everything into the ring to win over undecided voters.
When Hillary quoted Michelle Obama
Trump had promised to bring up Bill Clinton’s past treatment of women – several women have accused Clinton’s husband of sexual harrassment, four of which were sat in the front row of the debate.
However Clinton responded by quoting current First Lady Michelle Obama, and evoked cheers from the audience: “When they go low, you go high.”
When Trump made a thinly veiled threat
One of the most poisonous parts of the debate centred around Hillary’s email controversy. Trump vowed to “instruct my attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into [the] situation” should he win the election in November.
Clinton responded, “it’s a good thing someone with the temperament of Donald Trump is not in charge of this country”. Without missing a beat, Trump quipped: “You’d be in jail.”
When Trump differentiated between Clinton and Abraham Lincoln
Clinton compared her allegedly having a “public and a private position” on certain things to Abraham Lincoln’s strategy when passing the 13th Amendment — you have one reason for one person to vote for it and a different reason for another.
Trump immediately replied: “Honest Abe never lied. That’s the big difference between Abraham Lincoln and you.”
Trump’s defence of the video leak
A hot topic of last night’s debate was the leaked video that shocked the world last week, in which Trump brags about groping and kissing women, who “let” him do it because he’s a “star”.
Trump defended himself on stage by saying “I’ve never said I’m a perfect person, nor pretended to be someone that I’m not. I’ve said and done things I regret, and the words released today on this more than a decade-old video are one of them. Anyone who knows me knows these words don’t reflect who I am.”
Hillary then said what we were all thinking: “I think it’s clear to anyone who heard it, is that it represents exactly who he is.”
The Trump-Clinton duet memes
Arguably the best moment of the debate came afterwards when hundreds of memes of the pair singing a duet started to flood the internet.
Love lift us up where we belong.
Where the eagles cry
On a mountain high. pic.twitter.com/lWmuzngw9r— Stig Abell (@StigAbell) 10 October 2016
♪Summer loving had me a blast♪
♪Summer loving happened so fast♪ pic.twitter.com/eni92jpy4M— Todd ‘Papi’ Skullos (@TheToddWilliams) 10 October 2016