华盛顿邮报社评少见的认为川普赢得了第三次总统大选辩论。评论员认为：

川普这次没有脾气爆发，也没有胡扯；没有怎么打断希拉里，甚至也没有“嗅来嗅去”。他的反击和one-liner是最好的。希拉里则整夜使用空洞重复的语言。凸显她缺少诚实和加深她典型职业政客的不诚实形象。

川普“首次显示出他是个值得重视的对手”。

这次大选关乎变革。而希拉里不是个变革候选人。“人们不想投她的票，今晚她也没有给人们多少理由投她的票”。

川普在辩论中一改近来媒体呈现的各种负面形象，基本上控制了自己的舌头和脾气。他表现得很有信心且专注讨论国家经济。他也显示出更多对世界的了解 （“he even showed a much better understanding of geopolitics than I would have thought. He sounded like a Republican on most issues. For Trump, it’s too bad there aren’t more debates.”）

可惜，对川普来说，没有第4次辩论了。

另一方面，希拉里显得过度准备，过度排练了。在川普最有效的讲论的时候，她强迫自己显出笑脸。这也许是她唯一能做的。只是和场合非常不配...

网友也有相同观点。一位网友说：“

Trump的智商和反应都上好。。但是可悲的是，大多数民众并不能跟上他的反应。

希拉里特别擅长的一招，是车轱辘话来回说。。对于多数民众，更奏效。

比如希拉里说普京用入侵电脑来主持trump，这是荒谬绝伦的。trump逻辑上跳了两步，说希拉里是因为内心惧怕痛恨普京才那么说。但是一般人搞不明白里面的关系反而觉得不明就里。

Trump最简洁的反驳，就是要希拉里赌咒发誓，她有证据，trump与普京有幕后关系。希拉里绝对不敢多胡说，trump然后可以从“证据”二字展开：希拉里的腐败和妄为，确实在大量泄露出来的邮件中清楚无误地公之于世了。”

华油的文章最后说：

The totality of the campaign isn’t about this debate. There’s a lot of water under the bridge. Trump’s performance tonight can’t fully rehabilitate him, but it’s clear that the media — including me — expected a much worse performance. In fact, the post-debate analysts seem as rattled as Clinton. The press is going to panic over the fact that Trump helped himself, as shown by the immediate obsessing over Trump’s “non-commitment” to accepting the election results in November. But for voters watching the debate, that wasn’t really much of a focal point. The media wants to bore into it, but in doing so, reporters and commentators are ignoring many of the issues that were actually discussed in a rational fashion thanks to the steady hand of moderator Chris Wallace of Fox News.

In politics, good gets better and bad gets worse. Given Trump’s performance, I expect to see some stories about panic in the Clinton universe by the time the Sunday shows roll around. Before tonight’s debate, the conventional wisdom was that Trump was collapsing — and when conventional wisdom is set this far ahead of election day, the conventional wisdom is often wrong. So, was tonight a game changer? Probably not. But it might shift momentum and keep the race interesting.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2016/10/19/trump-won-tonights-debate/?utm_term=.6494f8006b45