The campaign manager for Donald Trump said rival Hillary Clinton looked “glib” on the debate stage Monday night.
“I felt sometimes … he was speaking, and you obviously had the side-by-side shot and you had the split screen, she looked a little glib. Almost like … ‘Why am I on this stage with this man?'” Kellyanne Conway said on MSNBC Tuesday morning.
She said Clinton also failed to have a big moment against Trump to stand out.
“There was no knockout punch by Hillary Clinton so much as her ability to tell us all everything she had learned in preparation for Donald Trump,” Conway explained. “She really needed to force him to make a huge mistake that would be the headline this morning, and she did not.”
Conway praised Trump on restraining himself during the debate, particularly when Clinton criticized him for his past comments on money.
“I appreciated the restraint at the end. I’m not sure I would be able to exercise it myself,” she said. “Restraint is a virtue and it’s a presidential virtue to tell Hillary Clinton — after she accused him of being terrible with women — ‘I was prepared to go rough tonight, and I’m not going to do it because your husband and your daughter are here.'”
By not going after Clinton, Trump showed “great temperance,” and it will emerge as a top shining moment for her candidate in the days following the debate, Conway added.
