The first US presidential debate has finished and both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump were out in force the morning after as verdicts on their performance flowed thick and fast.
Given the surreal nature of the campaign so far, it's no surprise that there was a fair degree of crazy in the themes coming from both camps. Here are some of the highlights.
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Check out key moments from the first 2016 presidential debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.
Trump's microphone "didn't work"
Republican candidate Mr Trump said he believed he was given a defective microphone at the debate, asking at one point if, perhaps, it was on purpose.
"They gave me a defective mic. Did you notice that? My mic was defective within the room," Trump said after the debate, during a gaggle with reporters. "I wonder, was that on purpose? Was that on purpose? But I had a mic that didn't work properly." The Washington Post reported that he didn't appear to have a problem with the microphone during the debate.
![Republican nominee Donald Trump claims his microphone didn't work during the presidential debate.](/web/20160930144808im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/r/p/e/t/x/image.related.articleLeadwide.620x349.grpxpd.png/1475064995698.jpg)
Hillary Clinton to reporters: "Anyone who complains about the microphone is not having a good night."
— Sabrina Siddiqui (@SabrinaSiddiqui) September 27, 2016
Debatus interruptus
Mr Trump interrupted Mrs Clinton and host Lester Holt an estimated 55 times. Mrs Clinton interrupted only 10 times. Time magazine has a chart tracking every interruption, linking each interjection to a point in the debate's transcript.
See how many times Donald Trump interrupted Hillary Clinton and Lester Holt during last night's debate https://t.co/YOkuKkAlif
— TIME (@TIME) September 27, 2016
#Sniffgate builds steam
Mr Trump's constant sniffling - an estimated 35 times - had people yelling at the TV, "Blow your nose." Former Vermont Governor Howard Dean even alleged that Mr Trump may have been taking cocaine.
![Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton fires a shot at Donald Trump during the debate.](/web/20160930144808im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/r/p/e/s/r/image.related.articleLeadwide.620x349.grpxpd.png/1475064995698.jpg)
This morning Governor Dean stood by his claim, saying Mr Trump needed to respond to his charge. Others suggested he should be called Sniffles.
"@tvkatesnow: @GovHowardDean stands by cocaine tweet & says Trump needs to answer charge, no apology @MSNBC https://t.co/r1YbqExl6L" pic.twitter.com/epa6kvrVR5
— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) September 27, 2016
The hand shake that wasn't ... or was it?
Mr Trump initially seemed to snub Mr Holt by not shaking his hand directly after the debate ended, prompting claims he snubbed the host. But he went back later to shake Mr Holt's hand. That didn't stop some on Twitter from making mileage out of the "snub".
@VicBergerIV @superdeluxe https://t.co/IFEJsHoypL he came back to be fair to Don
— nikolai hunditvilli (@tynickxo) September 27, 2016
Trump denies tax claim an hour after making it
During the debate Mrs Clinton said Mr Trump had "paid nothing in federal taxes" in recent years. "That makes me smart," Trump bragged. But later, according to Daily Kos, he denied having said this.
Trump's tortured language
Many commentators thought Mr Trump's stream-of-consciousness style of discussion compared unfavourably with Mrs Clinton's precise responses. The Washington Post's commentator Ezra Klein said that reading his responses was a "really bizarre experience". Others obviously agreed: Mr Klein's tweet was retweeted 4046 times overnight.
A University of Pennsylvania linguist Mark Liberman told Vox that Mr Trump's incoherence, worse in print than in person, was caused by false starts and parentheticals. "Both are effectively signalled in speaking — by prosody along with gesture, posture, and gaze — and therefore largely factored out by listeners. But in textual form the cues are gone, and we lose the thread." reported Vox.
Reading Trump's answers in text form is a really bizarre experience: https://t.co/p6tkZ7pA7q pic.twitter.com/cje7gGodYl
— Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) September 27, 2016
The debate by numbers
2: Times Donald Trump used his catch phrase 'Make America Great again'
43: Times Trump spoke over Clinton
5: Times Hillary Clinton spoke over Trump
42: Per cent of the time Clinton spoke
58: Per cent of the time Trump spoke
13: Times Trump used the word "tremendous"
2: Times Clinton used the phrase "trumped-up"
90: Minutes scheduled for the debate
95: Minutes the debate actually went for
4: Times Trump denied he said climate change was a hoax created by China
85,273: Number of times Donald Trump's November 2012 tweet, "The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese", had been retweeted by Tuesday afternoon. Twitter announced it was the most-retweeted during the debate.