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Did Martha Raddatz just win the debate?

"Tell me what your strategy is."

Keith Wagstaff

on October 9, 2016

CNN moderator Anderson Cooper (R) and ABC moderator Martha Raddatz (L) appear on stage during the second presidential debate with at Washington University on Oct. 9, 2016 in St Louis, Missouri. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

During Sunday night's extremely contentious debate, reining in the candidates -- especially Donald Trump, who literally said he would put Hillary Clinton in jail -- seemed like an impossible task.

That job went to CNN's Anderson Cooper and Martha Raddatz from ABC News, who actually did a pretty good job of giving each candidate equal talking time.

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Raddatz didn't back down from Trump, stopping the Republican presidential candidate when he went over his time and pressing him on questions he ignored, especially those related to his strategy in Syria. (In one of her most memorable moments of the debate, she interrupted him and said sternly about his plan to fight ISIS, "Tell me what your strategy is.")

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Unlike poor Lester Holt from the first debate, nobody was accusing her of disappearing. To many people watching at home, this made her something of a hero ...

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... or a villain, if you happened to be a conservative who thought she was being unfair to Trump.

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Either way, more people know who Martha Raddatz is now. We'll have to see if Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace will be as tough during the third and final presidential debate on Oct. 19 in Las Vegas.

Topics Donald Trump Elections Hillary Clinton

Keith Wagstaff

Keith Wagstaff is an assistant editor at Mashable and a terrible Settlers of Catan player. He has written for TIME, The Wall Street Journal Magazine, NBC News, The Village Voice, VICE, GQ and New York Magazine, among many other reputable and not-so-reputable publications. After nearly a decade in New York City, he now lives in his native Los Angeles.