--- title: Beware the Toxic Sequel to Donald Trump’s Flailing Presidential Campaign description: Donald Trump will probably lose this election, which is good news. Here's the bad news: that loss may be just the beginning of Trump's toxic... canonical: https://time.com/4540101/sequel-to-donald-trump-campaign/ author: Joe Klein article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-10-21T09:52:43.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:55:01.676Z article:section: U.S. og:title: Beware the Toxic Sequel to Donald Trump’s Flailing Presidential Campaign og:description: Donald Trump will probably lose this election, which is good news. 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Here's the bad news: that loss may be just the beginning of Trump's toxic... twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production video:duration: 03:13 video:published: 2016-10-20 section: politics topics: presidential debate, border security, Russian espionage, Vladimir Putin, sexual misconduct allegations, election results, rigged election claims, candidate fitness, women's dignity, closing arguments genre: debate, news tones: combative, tense, accusatory, defensive, earnest emotions: anger (high), defiance (high), hope (low), concern (medium) sentiment: negative audience: US voters, political news followers, election observers, young voters people: Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, Barack Obama, Chris Wallace organizations: Emmy Awards content_suitability: politics [00:00-03:13]; sexual content [00:44-01:26]; war [00:10-00:30]; hate [01:26-01:44]; profanity [00:00-00:00] transcript_source: automatic transcription transcript_reviewed: not applicable --- # Beware the Toxic Sequel to Donald Trump's Flailing Presidential Campaign > Sponsored content. 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Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump debated for the final time_ Description, summary, key points, chapters, key quotes, questions and transcript, where present, were produced automatically from the video or its captions and were not reviewed. ## Summary The clip shows highlights from the final 2016 presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. The candidates trade accusations over Russian espionage and Vladimir Putin, sexual misconduct allegations, and whether the election will be rigged. The segment closes with each candidate's pitch to voters for why they should be elected. ## Key points - Trump says the country needs strong borders and that 'bad hombres' will be removed. (00:00) - Trump says he does not know Putin and that Putin said nice things about him. (00:19) - Trump calls Clinton a liar and says Putin has outsmarted her at every step. (00:30) - Trump denies that nine women who accused him of groping or kissing them without consent are telling the truth. (00:44) - Clinton says Trump belittles women and goes after their dignity. (01:26) - Asked whether he will accept the election result, Trump says he will look at it at the time. (01:44) - Trump says Clinton should not be allowed to run and that the election is rigged. (01:55) - Clinton says her life's work has been the cause of children and families and says she hopes to serve as president. (02:29) - Trump says America must become strong and great again and that four more years of Barack Obama cannot be taken. (02:36) ## Chapters - [00:00 to 00:44] Borders, Russia and Putin. Trump and Clinton clash over border security, Russian espionage and Trump's ties to Putin. - [00:44 to 01:26] Allegations of sexual misconduct. Trump denies the allegations from nine women, and the exchange turns to Clinton's criticism of how he treats women. - [01:26 to 02:01] Accepting the election result. Asked whether he will accept the outcome, Trump says he will decide later and calls the election rigged. - [02:01 to 02:29] Rigged claims and fitness. Clinton responds to the rigged claim and calls Trump unfit, and Trump responds that she is the one who is unfit. - [02:29 to 03:13] Closing pitches to voters. Each candidate makes a final case for why voters should elect them as president. ## Key quotes - [00:10] Hillary Clinton: "This has come from the highest levels of the Russian government, clearly from Putin himself." - [00:19] Donald Trump: "I don't know Putin. He said nice things about me." - [00:36] Donald Trump: "She's been proven to be a liar on so many different ways." - [00:51] Donald Trump: "those stories are all totally false." - [01:55] Donald Trump: "She should not be allowed to run. And just in that respect, I say it's rigged." - [02:36] Hillary Clinton: "I have made the cause of children and families really my life's work." ## Questions this video answers - What positions do the candidates take on border security? [00:00] - How do the candidates respond to allegations about Russian espionage and Putin? [00:10] - How does Trump respond to the allegations from nine women? [00:44] - Will Trump commit to accepting the result of the election? [01:44] - What does each candidate say about why voters should choose them? [02:29] ## Content suitability - politics [00:00-03:13]: Entire clip is a presidential debate between two candidates. - sexual content [00:44-01:26]: Discussion of allegations that women were groped or kissed without consent. - war [00:10-00:30]: Accusations of foreign espionage by a state government. - hate [01:26-01:44]: Derogatory personal language, including 'nasty woman', and claims that a candidate belittles women. - profanity [00:00-00:00]: No profanity present in the transcript. by [Joe Klein](https://time.com/author/joe-klein/) ## Joe Klein Oct 21, 2016 9:52 AM UTC by [Joe Klein](https://time.com/author/joe-klein/) ## Joe Klein Oct 21, 2016 9:52 AM UTC Donald Trump will probably lose this election, which is good news. Here’s the bad news: that loss may be just the beginning of Trump’s toxic presence in American political life. Nightmare scenarios are floating through Republican circles. The best cases posit a bitter and continuing Republican civil war between the Trump and “Establishment” factions of the party. The worst cases involve a clean break, a new right-wing populist party, anchored by a Trump-Breitbart-Ailes media empire. The mud generated by this new faction, fed by WikiLeaks and the Russians, could splash across the political spectrum, creating a perpetual fever swamp of conspiracy theories and calls for special prosecutors, crippling a Hillary Clinton presidency. Goth politics may be the new normal. But: whoa, Joe. American politics is supple and enduring; a two-party system is our natural way. A century ago, populists and progressives threatened to upend the natural order, but their best ideas were assimilated into the existing structure. There were Dixiecrats and Henry Wallace leftists threatening the Democrats in 1948, but Harry Truman prevailed. Cooler heads usually do. Compromises are made. Tectonic transformations may occur, but they happen slowly–the last major one, beginning in the 1960s, moved Southern conservatives out of the Democratic Party. It’s probable that Trumpism will be sorted out and sanded down, just like other populist movements. We are not a cataclysmic people. Too much prosperity and stability is at stake. Or maybe not. We live in the golden age of marketing. We are a society of postmodern tribes, organized by cable networks: Fox, ESPN, QVC, MTV–you name it. Fortunes are made by the discovery of a new niche. All you need are 10 million devoted viewers and you can make a lot of money. So let’s say, for the sake of argument, that Trump wins 50 million votes on Election Day–a losing total, and probably the low end of his expectations. Let’s also stipulate that at least half of those voters are reflexive Republicans who will hold their noses and vote for their party’s nominee. That leaves up to 25 million hardcore Trumpists as the potential market for a new network. There are reports that Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner is trying to find investors. Trump’s campaign orbit–a ridiculous political operation–looks far more plausible as a communications company: Steve Bannon of Breitbart, Roger Ailes and Roger Stone. Even Newt Gingrich is more plausible these days as a performer than as a politician. And then you have the impending post-Ailes shake-up at Fox News. The Murdoch brothers, Rupert’s sons, reportedly want to take the network into a newsier realm, featuring less polarizing stars like Megyn Kelly, Chris Wallace, Bret Baier and Shepard Smith. That would leave a superhighway of market possibilities for a new Trump news, lifestyle, celebrity and reality network, featuring the likes of Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham and who knows who else? The Duck Dynasty crowd? Ultimate fighting? Billy Bush? We’ve been heading this way for a long time: a fusion of politics and entertainment, a political party that’s also a network that’s also a reality-TV show. But what about politics for the rest of us? Is there a potential home for those who take the complexities of democracy seriously? One thing you can safely predict is that the Republican Party’s leaders will try to establish their bona fides, and hold on to the Trump crowd, by stomping on Clinton from the moment she declares victory. There is talk of blocking all Supreme Court nominees until the court withers down to a seven-person bench with a conservative majority. There will be tremendous pressure on Paul Ryan not to cooperate with Clinton, even though very real progress can be made on economic and foreign policy. (You can bet that Clinton will be tough on the Russians, and perhaps the Chinese.) There will also be tremendous pressure on Clinton not to cooperate with Ryan. If nothing else, the WikiLeaks emails have exposed Clinton as a natural moderate, which will not please the growing number of socialists in Democratic ranks. Moderates in both parties are at a disadvantage in this new political landscape. The extremists have already won the first round of the marketing battle: moderates are routinely called the Establishment and elitists and globalists rather than sane or reasonable people. A willingness to compromise is seen as a moral deficiency. 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