The second of three presidential debates saw Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump trade insults and attacks in what was a tense and confrontational encounter for both candidates.
The issue of the 2005 video that captured Donald Trump making predatory comments about women dominated the first third of the debate, with Trump insisting that Clinton's husband had made "far worse" comments. Clinton in turn argued that the video was just the latest in a series of insults the Republican nominee had levelled at various individuals during his campaign. She suggested that Donald Trump had grown a long list of people he needed to apologize to.
The town-hall style debate saw undecided voters pose questions to both candidates. As in the first debate, Trump interrupted his Democratic rival frequently. At several points, Trump even began to answer questions that had been posed to Clinton before she had even gotten the chance to respond.
According to a CNN/ORC instant poll, 57% of viewers thought that Hillary Clinton won the town-hall debate, while 34% thought that Trump had won. But 63% of respondents did say that the Republican nominee performed better than they had expected him to. In the same poll that followed first debate, 62% of viewers thought Clinton had won, compared to 27% for Trump.