Trump won the debate, but will it matter?

Just as it was pretty much accepted that Hillary Clinton won the first presidential debate, it has now been established that Donald Trump won the second.

After the debate, a commentator on Bloomberg Politics said Trump did “well enough” to stave off the recent weeks of bad news and dropping polls for the candidate. As my colleague Jason Russell pointed out, gamblers also picked Trump as the debate winner. My other colleague, Byron York, has a great rundown of Trump’s performance. I agree that Trump won the debate, or at the very least, didn’t lose.