Sentence examples for poor debate from inspiring English sources

Mr. Perry's standing in the presidential field has slumped after poor debate performances.

The jobs numbers, unquestionably, gave a boost to the Obama campaign, still reeling from the president's poor debate performance.

Or at least until the next viral video, or stump speech gaffe, or poor debate performance shakes up the race again for the pundit class.

Mr. Perry, the only sitting governor in the race, had significant support early on from conservatives and evangelicals but his poor debate performances hurt his standing.

After a poor debate performance last month, Mr. Romney's advance team failed to generate much of crowd for a rally in Florence, S.C.

Evangelicals were excited last August when Rick Perry, the Texas governor, entered the race, but he soon fizzled after poor debate performances.

Mr. Corzine, whose aides said his poor debating skills made him seem more human than the composed but sharp-edged Mr. Florio, made no major gaffes and slowly grew more comfortable on the podium.

Still, Mr. Gingrich has a whole host of negative stories to deal with, and a middling-to-poor debate performance could lead to death by a thousand cuts.

But what his masters will take from it is that, for a day or two, while Gordon Brown is fending off tricky questions about the release of a convicted bomber to Libya, the Tories have been associated in the public mind with a tough stance on crime and one that sounds sympathetic to the poorest, debate has turned to a topic that usually favours the Tories (law and order), and therefore job done.

Political commentators have drawn comparisons with 1984, when Ronald Reagan, after a poor first debate against Walter Mondale, rebounded with a strong second one.

After a poor first debate performance – and the Friday release of the Access Hollywood tape – Republican nominee Donald Trump needed to hit a home run Sunday night to change the narrative and recapture the momentum.