SNL's take on the latest debate features a robotic Hillary Clinton, creepy Donald Trump, and Ken Bone

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump debate
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Saturday Night Live kicked off this week with the inevitable parody of the second presidential debate, featuring, as Cecily Strong's Martha Raddatz put it, "Republican Donald Trump and — can we say this yet? — President Hillary Clinton."

Alec Baldwin and Kate McKinnon were back in fine form as the candidates, he stalking Clinton around the stage to the soundtrack of Jaws and she robotically explaining her love of children, including "my daughter Chelsea and my granddaughter...Chelsea Jr., I'm assuming."

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.