AP Lede on Trump at Debate: ‘Threatening to Upend a Basic Pillar of American Democracy…’

The Associated Press isn’t messing around tonight. In response to Donald Trump refusing to say he’ll accept the election results tonight, they went with a lede that’s exploding on Twitter:

'Threatening to upend a basic pillar of American democracy' pic.twitter.com/rEnL3gjugF

— Ted Bridis (@tbridis) October 20, 2016

Quite the AP lede appearing in a thousand newspapers tomorrow morning https://t.co/vuz9x0fGom

— Joshua Benton (@jbenton) October 20, 2016

This went well. https://t.co/FsdjpouF5A

— stuart stevens (@stuartpstevens) October 20, 2016

This is the most accurate and brutal AP lede of the cycle https://t.co/txZ6PCzHId

— Eric Jotkoff (@Eric_Jotkoff) October 20, 2016

Need a little refresher on how to write a lede? Here ya go, courtesy of AP's Julie Pace & Lisa Lerer. https://t.co/qEBRNeL8iA

— jkdossett (@JKDossett) October 20, 2016

This AP lede. pic.twitter.com/tfFCa7tbze

— Igor Bobic (@igorbobic) October 20, 2016

Yow.

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