What the Trump-Clinton debates might tell us about Tuesday's match with Harris - The Boston Globe

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

70% : "Should have gotten it," Trump said, drawing laughs.
67% : "Because you'd be in jail," Trump responded to cheers from the audience.
66% : During their first 2016 debate in late September, moderated by NBC's Lester Holt, Trump began on his best behavior.
61% : He and Clinton warmly shook hands after taking the stage and Trump, in his first answer, said he agreed with his rival when it came to the importance of affordable child care.
54% : But the debate also provided a clear illustration of why Trump is such an effective debater.
52% : Trump answered.
50% : As Trump and Harris prepare to debate for the first -- and potentially only -- time Tuesday, his three meetings with Clinton in 2016 illustrate the challenges facing both candidates in what is again shaping up to be an extremely close election.
42% : "Later, Trump zeroed in on the thousands of hacked emails that Wikileaks had begun to publish the day of the tape's release, as well as Clinton's use of a personal email server during her time as secretary of state.
36% : The town hall came just two days after the release of the "Access Hollywood" tape in which Trump bragged about sexually assaulting women.
36% : Trump, who is physically far larger, lurked behind Clinton at times.
33% : It was Clinton who took the first digs of the night when she criticized the then-reality TV star and real estate developer for supporting "Trumped-up trickle-down" economics and said their different perspectives were borne from the fact that Trump had received millions of dollars from his wealthy father, while hers had worked hard printing draperies.
33% : "Later, Clinton took a swipe at Trump as she discussed her plan to raise taxes on the rich to keep Social Security solvent.
32% : As Clinton sat on her stool, Trump approached her, and said that, if he won, he would instruct his attorney general to hire a special prosecutor to investigate her conduct.
32% : During a subsequent question on the Affordable Care Act and rising healthcare costs, Trump stood right behind Clinton as she stepped forward to respond to the audience member who had asked the question.
30% : (Trump later said he condemned election interference "by Russia or anybody else.")Clinton, in an interview with The New York Times, referenced the "puppet" moment as an example of what she hoped Harris would do on stage Tuesday night.
29% : And Trump will be up against a longtime prosecutor known for landing pointed punches.
29% : As the debate wore on, Trump became more combative as he pressed Clinton on why she hadn't done the things she was proposing as a candidate for president during her decades of public life.
28% : "The second debate between Trump and Clinton was far more combative.
26% : During the third debate, Trump was asked for a second time about his efforts to sow doubts about the integrity of the election and claims that it was being rigged.
25% : Trump, meanwhile, sought to turn the arguments she made against him back onto her.
23% : She has no idea," Trump retorted, contradicting the conclusions of a long list of American intelligence agencies.
23% : You're the puppet," Trump shot back.
22% : In the audience, she said, was a worker who accused Trump of stiffing him on bills.
19% : ""No wonder you've been fighting ISIS your entire adult life," Trump quipped at one point as he tried to cast Clinton as an "all talk, no action" politician, of the group that formed in 2013.
18% : She never appeared flustered and instead smiled widely as she dismissively brushed off what she at one point cast as Trump "saying more crazy things.
16% : While Clinton tried to remain above the fray and laugh off attacks, Trump appeared in control, frequently interrupting with quips and commentary.
11% : As she apologized for using a private email server, Trump loomed ominously behind Clinton.
8% : "We've never had a foreign government trying to interfere in our election," Clinton said, expressing outrage that Trump had encouraged espionage against Americans and accusing him of touting the line of Russian President Vladimir Putin in exchange for assistance.
8% : After being asked about allegations of sexual assault by a long list of women, Trump insisted the stories were nothing but "lies" and "fiction" and then tried to deflect by pivoting to Clinton's emails.
7% : There was no handshake this time, and the debate quickly devolved into accusations as Trump insisted what former president Clinton had done was "far worse" than his self-described "locker room talk.
3% : With his campaign in freefall and top Republicans urging him to leave the race, Trump invited women who had accused former President Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton's husband, of sexual misconduct, creating a spectacle as the women sat in the audience in the debate hall and spoke at a press conference beforehand.

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