JAKE TAPPER: Well the significance, I think, is, first of all, the fact that debate watchers thought that the attacks were generally fair. Shows that they both got their licks in --they both got their punches. That he was seen as being on the attack more, I got to ascribe a lot of that to his interrupting and his “such a nasty woman,” quote unquote, aside, which I just think was really poorly thought out, if it was thought out at all, thing to say. It revealed a level of hostility and anger.
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TAPPER: I mean, he took the bait. He did that in the first debate. He did it in the second debate. And he did it in the third debate. I mean, she just made an aside about him trying to get out of paying taxes. Maybe a cheap shot, or whatever, but all is fair in love and war and politics certainly, and then he leans in, so nobody misses it, and says “such a nasty woman.” And I think that that comment resonated with women across the country.
