Trump predicts 2020 Dems will be 'somewhat easier' debate foes

President Donald Trump insisted Tuesday that he defeated Hillary Clinton in all three of their televised debates during the 2016 presidential campaign and suggested the 2020 Democratic contenders vying to challenge him would pose less of a threat onstage.

“As most people are aware, according to the Polls, I won EVERY debate, including the three with Crooked Hillary Clinton, despite the fact that in the first debate, they modulated the sound on me, and got caught,” Trump wrote on Twitter.

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“This crew looks somewhat easier than Crooked, but you never know?” the president added, referring to the two dozen Democrats competing for their party’s 2020 presidential nomination.

Trump and Clinton’s first general election debate, moderated by Lester Holt of NBC News, took place in September 2016 at Hofstra University in New York. The inaugural faceoff between the two candidates garnered a viewership of 84 million people and holds the record as the most-watched debate in American history.

After complaining to reporters in the post-debate spin room and during an interview with Fox News that his microphone during the broadcast was defective, the nonpartisan Commission on Presidential Debates acknowledged “there were issues regarding Donald Trump’s audio that affected the sound level in the debate hall.”

Nearly half of the likely voters surveyed after the debate, 49 percent, said Clinton triumphed, while only 26 percent thought Trump came out on top, according to a POLITICO/Morning Consult poll. An additional 26 percent either didn’t know who won or had no opinion.

Trump’s tweet regarding his debate performance comes as pundits and political commentators assess how the president will fare against the 2020 Democratic nominee after the contenders sparred on stage for the first time last week in Miami. Those broadcasts saw strong performances from California Sen. Kamala Harris and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who enjoyed subsequent boosts in their polling numbers.