In This Campaign, Clinton, Trump Flash Their Racial Credentials

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton spar during the first presidential debate of 2016. (Photo by David Goldman/Associated Press)
It was the first 2016 presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, and NBC’s Lester Holt was moderating. Holt’s topic was how to “heal the divide” between the races, but the conversation had meandered from stop-and-frisk to no-fly lists to the Department of Justice&rsq