Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump shake hands during the presidential debate at Hofstra University. Photo / AP
Donald Trump announced at the first presidential debate that he would not be "extremely rough" to Hillary Clinton and her family. He explained later that he meant he wouldn't bring up examples of former President Bill Clinton's infidelity.
Trump's surrogates have no problem doing it for him.
Former New York
Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, one of Trump's closest advisers, said Hillary Clinton is "too stupid" to be president because she appeared to not know her husband was unfaithful to her. David Bossie, Trump's deputy campaign manager, accused Clinton of being an "enabler". And Arkansas Attorney-General Leslie Rutledge questioned Hillary Clinton's "treatment of women" involved with her husband.
In better news for Clinton, the first poll survey after the debate - by NBC and SurveyMonkey - found that the Democratic nominee was considered by voters to have won it, 52 per cent to Trump's 21 per cent. Another 26 per cent said neither. At least five snap polls had earlier said Clinton won the debate.
There were also early indications that Clinton had received a poll bounce. Political forecaster Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight tweeted: "First three fully post-debate national polls have Clinton +5, +4, +3. So I'll daringly assert she might settle into a 3-5 point nat'l lead."
