By Daniel White
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Donald Trump made a calculated attempt to steal the show during Tuesday’s Democratic Debate—even though he wasn’t on stage.
The Republican frontrunner live-tweeted the debate, egging on his followers and taking shots at the Democrats, but he wasn’t too pleased by what he saw.
Here are some of Trump’s best Tweets:
On Sanders saying that “black lives matter:”
Hillary Clinton’s email scandal:
On the Democratic field:
On how bored he was:
By the end of the night, Trump had added some 60,000 Twitter followers according to analysis by Vocativ. Sanders had accumulated a further 28,000 while Clinton attracted a mere 10,000 new followers.
And in a surprise tweet Wednesday morning, Trump praised Hillary Clinton’s performance:
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