--- title: Presidential Debate: Read the Second Debate Transcript description: Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton debated on Sunday for their second time. canonical: https://time.com/4523325/read-the-transcript-of-the-second-presidential-debate/ author: Daniel White article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-10-10T04:23:57.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T01:04:56.110Z article:section: Politics og:title: Read the Transcript of the Second Presidential Debate og:description: Trump and Clinton debated on Sunday for the second time og:url: https://time.com/4523325/read-the-transcript-of-the-second-presidential-debate/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2104acd7794c0429/6988a950cf40a8e6fec45189/161009_debate_manterruptions.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: 161009_DEBATE_Manterruptions og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Read the Transcript of the Second Presidential Debate twitter:description: Trump and Clinton debated on Sunday for the second time twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2104acd7794c0429/6988a950cf40a8e6fec45189/161009_debate_manterruptions.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Read the Transcript of the Second Presidential Debate by [Daniel White](https://time.com/author/daniel-white/) ## Daniel White Oct 10, 2016 4:23 AM UTC  Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton walks past Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump during the second presidential debate at Washington University in St. Louis, Sunday, Oct. 9, 2016. Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton walks past Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump during the second presidential debate at Washington University in St. Louis, Sunday, Oct. 9, 2016.Patrick Semansky—AP by [Daniel White](https://time.com/author/daniel-white/) ## Daniel White Oct 10, 2016 4:23 AM UTC Presidential candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton debated for the second time on Sunday at Washington University in St. Louis. The moderators were CNN’s Anderson Cooper and ABC News’ Martha Raddatz. Read the full debate transcript below. --- > “” --- ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4523325/read-the-transcript-of-the-second-presidential-debate/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4523325/read-the-transcript-of-the-second-presidential-debate/"},"headline":"Read the Transcript of the Second Presidential Debate","datePublished":"2016-10-10T04:23:57.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T01:04:56.110Z","description":"Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton debated on Sunday for their second time.","url":"https://time.com/4523325/read-the-transcript-of-the-second-presidential-debate/","keywords":["Debates","Hillary Clinton","2016 Election topic","Donald Trump","transcripts"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2104acd7794c0429/6988a950cf40a8e6fec45189/161009_debate_manterruptions.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Daniel White","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/daniel-white/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2104acd7794c0429/6988a950cf40a8e6fec45189/161009_debate_manterruptions.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"161009_DEBATE_Manterruptions","caption":"Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton walks past Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump during the second presidential debate at Washington University in St. Louis, Sunday, Oct. 9, 2016.","creditText":"Patrick Semansky—AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/debates/","name":"Debates"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4523325/read-the-transcript-of-the-second-presidential-debate/","name":"Read the Transcript of the Second Presidential Debate"}}]}] ```