It seems Trump planned to stalk Clinton around the stage. An effort to control her?

[UCmeNdc]

Trump seemed to appear to be everywhere Hillary went. He pranced around behind her throughout the debate. It looked like an irate mate daring his woman to get out of line or I will smack you. I think he learned this technique to control women.

[redstatebluegirl]

1. A male intimidation tactic.

[sarae]

2. Yep, and it made me sick to watch it.

[redstatebluegirl]

7. It made me uncomfortable to be honest. What a pig.

[writes3000]

3. I think he was trying to get as much camera time as possible.

The problem is he looks unpleasant, weird and unhappy so it did him no favors.

[UCmeNdc]

11. No it was an intimidation tactic

Nobody caught on to it that night.

[mothra1orbit]

28. You're absolutely right

and it fits perfectly with his misogynistic profile. That kind of crowding into a woman's personal space is only one step away from inappropriate touching.

I'm proud of Hillary for standing her ground, for not--as many of us do, in self-protection or because women don't want to upset anyone--moving away from him when he approached her so closely.

[LakeVermilion]

4. I think he was "scoping her!"

Trump probably wants the unattainable. I'm going to guess that he eyed her up and down a few times.

[PJMcK]

13. She's not his type

Hillary Clinton has a brain. Plus, she was born in the US.

[LakeVermilion]

18. :-•

Shocking!

[spiderpig]

44. Would Trumpy know the difference?

His geopolitical awareness is somewhat limited.

[raging moderate]

5. Plus maybe he wanted to be onstage constantly.

Narcissists love to hog the limelight. And they want to be in every shot.

[grossproffit]

6. At one point I really thought he was going to spit on her. He looked like the devil.

[C_U_L8R]

8. He was staying on camera

but it just came off creepy and 'grabby'

[Siwsan]

9. New rule should be, when one person is talking the other must be seated

In Trump's case, seated and behind a curtain so we wouldn't have to witness his non-stop gurning.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

19. +1.

[UCmeNdc]

10. The media needs to call it. A male chauvinistic attitude toward women.

It is strange how nobody picked up on that tactic.

[Coyotl]

12. Camera awareness. He kept trying to walk into her camera shot. The reason being

likely to deter her from using the debate footage in ads.

But it plays as if he's sneaking up behind her for a grope.

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[raging moderate]

15. You're right. They could make great ads.

I bet the Clinton camp will use these shots. Maybe with shark music.

[annabanana]

31. "with shark music" . . . love it!. . .n/t

[UCmeNdc]

17. Trump looks like he wants to beat her to a pulp.

"One more wrong word out of you woman!"

[Thegonagle]

37. That's what I thought he was trying to do.

He was trying to stay in front of the camera, as he's been doing most of his life, almost on instinct at this point.

But when the camera is zoomed in on a close shot of Hillary, it makes him appear even closer than he really is. The way a zoom lens "flattens" a telephoto shot elevates the creep factor from stalker to full-on pussy-grabber.

[Coyotl]

38. It was obvious he was glancing at the camera, likely to see if the green light was on and if he was

positioned in the camera shot.

[catbyte]

14. Exactly. My friend said he creeps her out because he reminds her of her ex-husband.

[mopinko]

35. i bet he reminds a whole lot of women of exes.

the world is full of creepy exes.

[yellowcanine]

16. That will be the image which will sway any remaining undecided women.

It was bizarre and rude.

[UCmeNdc]

21. It was about, getting in her private space. Make her feel she could not speak freely.

He stood, at times, right behind her. If she just reversed directions really quickly they might have bumped into each other.
I bet she could feel him breathing down her neck!

[athena]

43. At some level, it worked

in that it was very hard to concentrate on what Hillary was saying with him standing or pacing so close to her. Those who are saying Hillary was rattled were probably projecting their own inability to concentrate onto her. Hillary did great nonetheless, and I admire her for it. I wish I could be that strong and cool when faced with bullies.

[hopeforchange2008]

23. Stalker clown link...

[Chemisse]

26. Love it!

[GWC58]

24. My wife said "that man is

seriously sick in the head."

[Cha]

25. Wonder what Hillary's Secret Service guys thought of that

predatory asshole stalking her on the debate stage?

[Chemisse]

27. For one crazy moment, I thought he was going to attack her.

[demmiblue]

29. It looked really, really creepy.

The repulsiveness of it sends shivers down my spine.

Way to win over women voters, Don!

Props to Hillary for handling the situation with such poise.

[Chemisse]

30. He is such a fool that he doesn't realize that his looming is a trigger for every woman.

All women have a deep-seated fear of being attacked by a man, and I am betting that all but the most staunchly Hillary-hating women seeing this behavioral had a visceral response to it.

[Adrahil]

33. Conway claimed...

That the fact he was in in "Hillary's Space" he dominated the debate. This was an attempt to play on the domination fantasies of those weak-ass men who worship "alpha males."

[apnu]

42. Actually, Hillary was playing Trump, I'll tell you why.

She was using a Bill Clinton debate trick in Town Halls were he gets up and walks across the stage to address the questioner and put himself between the question and his adversary. This has an effect of making the other person look either left out or force the camera to catch the scowls of the other person making them look like a douche.

Its a brilliant, and subtle tactic and Hillary used it to fantastic effect.

Trump, for his part, fell for it and spent time walking into it, making him look like a creepy stalker. Even when he was going back to his chair, the camera made it appear he was walking up on her.

He got played by Hillary, what a dope.

[spiderpig]

45. He was stalking her, and by extension, intimidating her.

The facial expressions, the gait, the relentlessness of the creep. Mr. pig and I both agreed that if anyone got in our space that way we'd go for the pepper spray.

[dem in texas]

47. Dixie Chick Tweeted the Reason

She said he was going to grab her "kitty".