- Second presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump has taken place in St Louis
- The two candidates locked horns throughout the bitter debate, which Trump backers said he won
- Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani described the night as a 'home run', for Trump in the spin room
- Clinton opened saying she is concerned about 'some of the things being said and done in this campaign'
- Trump said the controversial remarks he made in 2005 that were revealed Friday were 'locker room talk'
- However, moderator Anderson Cooper pulled Trump up on it, saying he 'bragged' about assaulting women
- Donald Trump also told Hillary Clinton that should would be in jail if he was in charge of the country's laws
- The Republican also accused the moderators of being biased against him, saying it was 'three on one'
- Before the debate, Trump held a press conference with women who have accused Bill Clinton of rape
- The woman sat in the front row for the debate – just feet from Clinton, the woman they earlier condemned
The debate night that will be discussed for generations in Political Science classes – and Women's Studies seminars – ended with Republican Donald Trump landing more punches than Democrat Hillary Clinton, and successfully deflecting attention successfully away from a two-day-old crisis about graphic sexual language that threatened to derail his White House bid.
In the first debate at Hofstra University 13 days earlier, Clinton sat back and let Trump hang himself. But on Sunday her quiet patience gave him room to roam and dominate.
Rudy Giuliani, the former New York City mayor who has been among Trump's most forceful defenders, summed up the real estate tycoon's performance with two words in the post-debate spin room: 'home run.'
'I think the momentum is going to switch, like that,' Giuliani told DailyMail.com, snapping his fingers. 'It was one of the biggest victories in a presidential debate, ever.'
Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta called Trump 'desperate' and called him 'incoherent' in policy discussions.
Neither candidate appeared in the hall where reporters waited to grill them. For Clinton, that was par for the course. For Trump, it marked his first such absence in any debate in which he's participated in 2016 and 2015.
Clinton established herself as a superior bureaucrat Sunday night with more mature knowledge of foreign policy minutiae and a more intelligible way of communicating details about how laws are made.
But Trump won on points in what has become the Year of the Outsider, playing to a national television audience that polls show are weary of Washington's same-old same-old and eager for new blood.
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