![]() ![]() He used 36 negative emotion words per 1,000 words in that section, compared to 24 per 1,000 throughout the entire debate. Of Wallace’s six debate sections, Trump’s most negative was “foreign hotspots," as he targeted the strategy for retaking Mosul from Islamic State (“the stupidity of our country"), the broken Syria cease-fire (“how stupid our leadership is"), and the Iran nuclear deal (“the stupidest deal of all time"). Clinton used positive words more and negative words less than Trump in all three of their face-offs. Language researchers use audience focus groups and machine learning to classify thousands of words and phrases as negative-like “wrong," which Trump used to interrupt Clinton five times, and “disaster," which he mentioned 10 times-or positive, as in making America “great" again. It was the first time Trump used more negative than positive language in any of his general-election debates or 11 Republican primary debates, according to a Bloomberg analysis with Quantified Communications. With sagging poll numbers, Trump on Wednesday immediately sought refuge in his debate-stage habit of lashing out at critics, attacking Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg within four sentences of his first response. ![]() The leak of a 2005 hot-mic video two days before the second debate in which Trump bragged about being able to grope women led to Clinton’s biggest single-day gain of the past four weeks. Her odds of winning the presidency climbed about 20 points during the debate season that started 26 September, buoyed by her solid performances and a string of damaging headlines for Trump. Prediction markets largely saw the final debate as a wash, with Clinton’s odds stable at around 90%, according to aggregator PredictWise.
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