2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: How Donald Trump Could Have Been Taken Down With 8 Simple Words [View all]MrPurple
(985 posts)Trump had years of experience playing to the cameras and his audience. If Jeb had said that, Trump would have responded with something like, "Oh yeah, Jeb, Mr. Tough Guy. I don't need to come over there because I'm at 30% and you're at 5% and pretty soon you're going to be off the stage. Low energy Jeb".
I agree that if Trump was on his own on a subway platform, he wouldn't stand up to a challenge. But, on a debate stage, you're not going to beat him in a WWE smackdown. The problem was more that Jeb smiled at Trump's attacks like they were amusing and acted like a golden retriever. He should have turned the tables on what Trump was saying and said that he was full of dangerous, erratic high energy.
Hillary actually handled Trump well in the debates, I thought.