Let’s say he did stop the bleeding. There is still the putrid stench of gangrene wafting from his campaign headquarters.

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Donald Trump needed to do much more than stop the bleeding. He needed to turn the tables, flip the narrative, and have a game-changing moment. He desperately had to muddy her, make Hillary flinch.

She did not. He failed — epically.

Hillary Clinton refused to go there. She stayed focused on answering the voters’ questions. And Trump was left splattering in his pig pen with no out in sight.