Clinton got interrupted how many times? Debate night by the numbers

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump faced off Monday night in what may have been the biggest moment of the presidential race yet.

It's too early in the general race to count either candidate out, but what we can count are the number of interruptions, shoutouts to Sean Hannity and awkward moments there were, among other things.

Trump interrupted Clinton at least 22 times in 26 minutes.

It's not uncommon for presidential candidates to resort to bickering at some point during a debate, but Trump came under scrutiny on social media for his repeated interruptions of Clinton in the first third of the segment.

The worst of it came after the first 15 minutes of the debate, when Trump started asking Clinton the questions.

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"Hillary, I'd just ask you this," he said. "You've been doing this for 30 years. Why are you just thinking about these solutions right now? For 30 years, you've been doing it, and now you're just starting to think of solutions."

Clinton says, "Well, actually..."

But Trump wasn't done: "I will bring -- excuse me. I will bring back jobs. You can't bring back jobs."

She didn't get the memo that it must have been a rhetorical question.

"Well, actually, I have thought about this quite a bit."

Yeah, for 30 years," he retorts. And the interruptions only became more frequent from there.

The number of interruptions could be up for debate. Vox reports Trump interrupted Clinton 25 times in the first 26 minutes.

Mexico was mentioned at least six times, and China at least 11 times.

The majority of the times those mentions came from Trump.

The GOP nominee named Mexico and China repeatedly in the first 10 minutes as two countries where American companies were moving, costing Americans jobs in manufacturing, technology and more.

Debate moderator Lester Holt's first question was why each candidate felt better equipped to create jobs that will bring Americans more money, to which Trump responded: "Our jobs are fleeing the country. They're going to Mexico they’re going to many other countries. You look at what China is doing to our country in terms of making our product, they're devaluing their currency and there's nobody in our government to fight them."

This became a recurring theme from Trump throughout the debate. Trump mentioned China eight of the 11 times, and all of the six mentions of Mexico came from him.

Of course, Twitter took note.

Number of times Clinton gave a shoutout to her husband? One.

And not by name, either.

During that exchange where Trump grills Clinton, then interrupts her, she says "my husband did a pretty good job in the 1990s" and that she has thought about how to replicate what worked at the time.

Trump interrupts and brings up that he approved the North American Free Trade Agreement, but she changes the subject, saying his administration brought "a balanced budget, and incomes went up for everybody. Manufacturing jobs went up also in the 1990s if we're actually going to look at the facts."

One would think a presidential candidate's spouse wouldn't come under the spotlight, but Clinton is the first major presidential candidate with a spouse who has served as U.S. president. And Clinton is credited with redefining the role of first lady during Bill's administration. One of the biggest examples of that is in 1995, when the then-first lady delivered her famous Beijing speech, in which she proclaimed “women’s rights are human rights.”

Perhaps it's a surprise Bill wasn't mentioned more during the debate, considering how coverage of him seemed to overshadow that of his wife, the actual nominee, at times during the Democratic National Convention.

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Trump brought up his endorsements at least three times

When posed with questions about law and order, immigration and other issues, Trump reminded viewers that he has received endorsements.

When Holt asked the candidates how they would heal racial tensions in this country, Trump said this: "I just got today the, as you know, the endorsement of the Fraternal Order of Police, we just -- just came in," he said.

The Fraternal Order of Police, which has more than 300,000 members, announced its endorsement Sept. 16.

But maybe he was thinking of the National Immigration Customs Enforcement Council, which actually endorsed him on Monday. It's the first time the National Immigration and Customs Enforcement Council has endorsed a candidate for president, according to a statement posted on Trump’s campaign website Monday.

Trump mentioned another endorsement, one from the National Rifle Association, but it was in response to Clinton talking about how all sorts of people — not just police officers — struggle with implicit biases (including racial biases) every day.

Instead of answering Holt's question about implicit biases, he started talking about no-fly lists and watch lists (making little to no connection to racial tensions) and the NRA:

"First of all, I agree, and a lot of people even within my own party want to give certain rights to people on watch lists and no- fly lists. I agree with you. When a person is on a watch list or a no-fly list, and I have the endorsement of the NRA, which I'm very proud of. These are very, very good people, and they're protecting the Second Amendment."

The 'media' was mentioned twice, but...

In the most general sense, the media in all its forms were brought up at least 10 times, if you mention the seven shoutouts Trump gave to Hannity, the conservative broadcaster, and the one shoutout to Howard Stern, the radio personality, and the other to Fox New anchor Neil Cavuto.

Trump invokes Hannity when he is responding to claims that he initially supported the war in Iraq:

When I did an interview with Howard Stern, very lightly, first time anybody's asked me, I said who knows. Essentially, I then did an interview Neil Cavuto. I had numerous conversations with Sean Hannity at Fox, and he called me the other day and I spoke to him about it. He said you were totally, because he was for the war ... And that is before the war started. Sean Hannity said very strongly, to me and other people, he's willing to say, but nobody wants to call him, I was against the war. He said you used to have fights with me, because Sean was in favor of the war. And I understand that side also. Not very much, because we should have never been there, but nobody called Sean Hannity. And then they did an article in a major magazine, shortly after the war started. I think in '04. But they did an article, which had me totally against the War in Iraq. And one of your compatriots said, you know, whether it was before or right after, trump was, because if you read this article, there's no doubt. But if somebody, and I'll ask the press, if somebody would call up Sean Hannity, this was before the war started. He and I used to have arguments about the war. I said it's a terrible and a stupid thing. It's going to destabilize the Middle East. And that exactly what this's done.

Holt tried to interrupt Trump, to which the GOP nominee replied, "excuse me" and continued. He went on to mention Hannity three more times.

It seems only natural that "Call Sean Hannity" started trending on Twitter:

It was less than a minute earlier that Trump denied Clinton's claims that he supported the war in Iraq calling it "a mainstream media nonsense put out by her (Clinton) because she frankly — I think the best person in her campaign is mainstream media."

Clinton captured 54% of search interest among candidates on Google during debate

Over the past four hours, Clinton had 54% of search interest among the four best known presidential candidates. Trump captured 40% of search interest. They were followed by Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson at 4% and Green Party candidate Jill Stein at 1%.

Search interest may show which candidate people search about on Google, but the top questions Google attributed to each candidate aren't exclusive to any one of them. The top question tied to Clinton was "Is stop and frisk unconstitutional?" which also was attributed to Trump. Other top questions related to Clinton were:

• "How many shootings in Chicago?" 
• "What happened in Benghazi?" 
• "What emails did Clinton delete?"  
• "What did Clinton's dad do?"

For Trump, the top questions in descending order were as follows:

• "Did Trump support the Iraq War?" 
• "Is stop and frisk unconstitutional?" 
• "How many shootings in Chicago?" 
• "How much money did Trump get from his dad?" 
• "How many times has Trump filed for bankruptcy?"

Search interest can be hard to qualify, as they change daily.

Before the debate, NBC News reported that Trump was garnering more search interest than Clinton in almost every state, except Utah, Wyoming, New Mexico and Vermont.

No matter how you feel about either candidate, there's some good news in the Google Trends analysis. For four hours, people cared more about the presidential candidates and their platforms than about pornography.