The Second Presidential Debate featured full on attacks exchanged between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.
The night's topics included Trump's view of women, ObamaCare, treatment of Muslims in America, international policy and the Supreme Court. Trump attacked Clinton with his full force, while Clinton sat back and let Trump talk himself into trouble. Clinton used Trump's recent misstep to her advantage by emphasizing diversity and respect through the over 90 minutes of the debate.
The Town Hall style forum opened with Trump on the defensive over his derogatory comments about women from earlier in the week. Instead of answering questions about his words, the real estate mogul focused his answer on the atrocities committed by ISIS, namely beheading and other forms of murder and torture. He said that what he said was nothing compared to what the terrorist organization did. After repeating not only that he loved and respected women, but also claiming that the comments were just "locker room talk," the GOP nominee denied ever following through with what he said in the interview and followed up with an attack on Bill Clinton.
Prior to the debate, Trump had held a meeting with various women who had accused Bill Clinton of sexual assault, referring to them through out the discussion on his recorded conversation from 2005.
Hilary Clinton's responded that she had never doubted a Republican Candidate's ability to run the country until Trump. The Democratic Nominee began her emphasis on diversity and respect by calling out to women voters and comparing her opponent's comments to his previous comments about Muslims and Latinos.
As the moderators tries to move the debate along, Trump began to argue with them. He claimed that they ignored the problem of Clinton's emails, which Trump kept referring to through the debate. Trump added that if he were president, Clinton would be in jail.
Going on to health care, Trump claimed that creating competition within the insurance industry would be a better option for the American people than ObamaCare. Clinton responded by promising to reform the Affordable Car Act.
A question from the audience referred to the air of hostility towards Muslims that has come up in American society. Trump responded by not only acknowledging it's existence but also calling Islamophobia a "shame." He then called the Muslim community to action.
"Muslims need to report the problems when they see them," Trump said.
He then said that the woman who asked the question was afraid of calling the current issue "Radical Islamic Terrorism," just like President Barack Obama. Trump followed up by saying a problem can not be solved if it cannot even be named.
Clinton responded by pushing acceptance and warning Trump that his words were alienating majority Islamic countries.
"We are not at war with Islam," she said.
Trump also said that instead of a Muslim ban he supported an "extreme vetting process." He also condemned Clinton's plan to increase the number of Syrian refugees in the country from 10,000 to 65,000.
Moving onto Russia, Trump denied knowing Putin or having any business ties to Russia.
"We need leverage" to bring Russia to diplomacy talks, Clinton said, while Trump praised Russia's nuclear program adding that the US has a "weak foreign policy."
With all of Clinton's efforts to appear inclusive, Trump brought up the oppressive poverty of the inner-city minority communities.
"We have a divided nation," Trump said.
He claimed that this was Clinton's fault for not making policies to help them.
When asked about how they would pick Supreme Court Justices, Trump simply stated his desire for someone exactly like the late Justice Antonin Scalia.
The last question of the night asked the candidates to compliment each other, resulting in a series of back-handed compliments. Clinton praised Trump's children and Trump called to attention the fact the Clinton does not quit.
