As it happened - pivotal Obama and Trump speeches

Summary

Donald Trump is facing a slew of claims of sexual misconduct from women
In Florida on Thursday, he fought back by strongly dismissing the accusations
First Lady Michelle Obama decried his actions as "intolerable"
Last week a video tape emerged in which Mr Trump boasted of groping women
A series of recent polls suggest a fall in his support to rival Hillary Clinton

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Courtney Subramanian and Max Matza

What does that mean? Debate watchers look up lingopublished at 09:26 British Summer Time 27 September 2016
Dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster says "stamina", "temperament" and "braggadocio" are the top trending words on its website after being used in the presidential debate.
Mr Trump used the word braggadocious in the debate. Merriam-Webster says the word is not common enough to feature in its dictionary.
"It is thought to have come from braggadocio (also not a common word today), which is considerably older," it says.
"This term, which currently means 'the annoying or exaggerated talk of someone who is trying to sound very proud or brave' began to be used in the beginning of the 17th century, at which point it simply referred to a braggart."
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Waking up? Here's what you missedpublished at 08:06 British Summer Time 27 September 2016
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The two candidates sparred for 90 minutes in a bitter and acrimonious debate. If you missed it, here are some key points:
- Trump was forced on the defensive for not releasing his tax returns, with Clinton suggesting he was hiding "something terrible". He said he would release them if Clinton released 33,000 emails that were deleted during an investigation into a private email server she used while secretary of state.
- On the economy, Trump attacked Clinton for her shifting stance on the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal and repeatedly criticised Bill Clinton for approving Nafta while president.
- He also questioned whether she had the "stamina" to be president. She responded by pointing out she had visited 112 countries as secretary of state.
- Trump denied ever saying climate change was a hoax and a Chinese conspiracy despite past tweets showing the opposite.
- Mrs Clinton said Trump had a "long record of engaging in racist behaviour" and said that his questioning of Barack Obama's birthplace had annoyed and bothered the first African American president.
- African Americans are living "in hell" in the US due to gun violence, Mr Trump said.
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Listen: Newt Gingrich says Trump 'probably won'published at 08:02 British Summer Time 27 September 2016
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Donald Trump did what he needed to do in the debate, says the former Republican house speaker - he showed himself to be a legitimate contender.
Holt 'did a great job' - Trumppublished at 07:41 British Summer Time 27 September 2016
Donald Trump has told CNN , externalthat Lester Holt did "a great job" and his questions were "very fair" (even though the Republican nominee did grumble in a tweet that nothing had come up during the debate on emails, the Clinton foundation or Benghazi). Trump's take on the debate moderator is very different from what some conservatives have been saying. Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani said Holt should be "ashamed of himself" and Fox media pundit Howard Kurtz accused him of bias.
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Trump's interruptionspublished at 07:21 British Summer Time 27 September 2016
Vox has counted how many times the candidates interrupted each other...
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The question of interruptions has been widely discussed on Twitter.
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Trump praises Clinton?published at 07:21 British Summer Time 27 September 2016
In this clip after the debate, the Republican nominee appears to say: "Yeah, she did a good job."
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Who won? Depends who you ask...published at 07:18 British Summer Time 27 September 2016
A CNN/ORC poll has found, external that 62% of voters who watched the head-to-head thought Clinton came out on top, with just 27% giving the bout to Trump.
This is based on interviews with 521 registered voters chosen as part of a random national sample. But only 26% identified themselves as Republicans while 41% identified themselves as Democrats.
An informal CNBC poll, external on its website has found 61% of people thought Trump won, while 39% went for Clinton. Trump has tweeted the results, but as CNBC points out, the poll is "not scientific". Anyone, including outside the US, appears to be able to vote.
A post-debate survey, external by Public Policy Polling of 1,002 debate-watchers found that 51% of national voters thought Clinton won, with 40% choosing Trump and 9% undecided.
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The truth squadpublished at 06:51 British Summer Time 27 September 2016
Both candidates were caught fibbing by fact-checkers during the debate. Trump denied Clinton's claim that he had said climate change "is a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese". But this 2012 tweet indicates otherwise:
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Clinton, meanwhile, denied saying she had called the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal "the gold standard of trade deals". However, she said, external in 2012: "This TPP sets the gold standard in trade agreements..."
Read more from the BBC's Reality Check.
And here's how PolitiFact has rated the honesty of each candidate's statements this campaign cycle...
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Pranking Hannitypublished at 06:45 British Summer Time 27 September 2016
Trump implored viewers during the debate to call Fox New host Sean Hannity, who he insisted would vouch that the Republican nominee had been an early opponent of the Iraq war. Former Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau made the call on his podcast, Keepin' It 1600. Hannity, an avid Trump supporter, was not amused.
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#snifflepublished at 06:32 British Summer Time 27 September 2016
This was trending on Twitter during the debate as Trump appeared to have a cold. Some considerate soul has assembled a full montage of all his sniffles, here it is:
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Duel continues on Twitterpublished at 06:23 British Summer Time 27 September 2016
Can't these two just call it a night?
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5 million tweetspublished at 06:21 British Summer Time 27 September 2016
And who were those unlikely debate guests?
If you haven't a clue why people are talking about multicoloured sweets...
Donald Trump Jr compares Syrian refugees to Skittles
Breaking down the resultspublished at 06:03 British Summer Time 27 September 2016
The BBC's Anthony Zurcher looks at how the candidates matched up in tonight's debate on Facebook Live.
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What they didn't saypublished at 06:02 British Summer Time 27 September 2016
The news website Fusion has put together a list of things we didn't hear the candidates discuss:
- Abortion
- Gun control
- Trump's border wall
Maybe we'll hear more about those topics in the next two debates.
See Fusion's list here., external
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Jerry Springer weighs inpublished at 05:53 British Summer Time 27 September 2016
With a joke!
OMG!published at 05:48 British Summer Time 27 September 2016
You can see how many flashpoints there were in this epic battle of wits on the faces of these Clinton supporters at a debate-watch party in West Hollywood.
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Tight squeeze?published at 05:37 British Summer Time 27 September 2016
How hard do you reckon they were squeezing each other's hands here?
Are these the faces of two people in bone-crunching pain who won't give in to each other, or were they just being all cordial?
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Key momentspublished at 05:15 British Summer Time 27 September 2016
To recap, Trump and Clinton have locked horns in the first of three presidential debates. Clinton showed discipline and seemed to get under Trump’s skin by accusing him of stiffing contractors, dodging his federal taxes, being a misogynist and promoting "the racist, birther lie". Trump hit back at Clinton on trade deals, her emails and the Middle East, framing her as a political insider who had achieved nothing after three decades of public life. Some key moments:
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Adventures in spin roompublished at 04:56 British Summer Time 27 September 2016
Trump surrogate Rudy Giuliani is in the spin room, hitting Lester Holt hard.
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Well, this looks awkward...published at 04:49 British Summer Time 27 September 2016
Trump took to Twitter to criticise Lester Holt minutes after he left the stage. In the Vine clip below, Trump appears to snub the moderator after the debate ends. Clinton shakes Holt's hand, while Trump seems to wander off, though he did come back round to press the NBC host's flesh.
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