Last night's debate between Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton was probably different than any other in American presidential campaign history. Candidates have had testy exchanges in debates but perhaps none ever got as personal as the second debate in this campaign.
Coming two days after the release of a 2005 tape that recorded Trump talking about how celebrities aggressively pursue women in a sexual manner and with Republicans pulling their support across the country, Trump went on the offensive calling Clinton a liar and "the devil," saying if elected he would appoint a special prosecutor to investigate whether she broke laws and countered that Clinton's husband, former President Bill Clinton actually sexually assaulted women.
Clinton for her part also called Trump a liar, repeated that he is unfit to be president and said the tape showed exactly who Trump is.
On today's Smart Talk, Franklin and Marshall College political analyst and pollster Dr. G. Terry Madonna joins us to make sense of it all and how the debate will impact voters.
Madonna also talks about several recent polls that show much different results in Pennsylvania's U.S. Senate race between Democrat Katie McGinty and Republican incumbent Senator Pat Toomey.