On Wednesday, October 19, Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump met on the stage for the last time at the University of Nevada in Las Vegas. The debate was moderated by Chris Wallace from Fox News.

This election cycle has been riddled with scandals and mud-slinging, as was apparent in the first two presidential debates. These two presidential debates between Clinton and Trump disappointed many Americans, as many felt that the two people before them did not truly represent the values needed in a presidential candidate.

The first half hour of Wednesday’s presidential debate seemed to be exempt of the disrespect that seemed to dominate the previous two debates. Clinton and Trump discussed the topics of Supreme Court justices and the second amendment and conversation seemed to flow smoothly, but this calm gave away as soon as Clinton stated that Trump “choked” in his meeting with the Mexican president, Enrique Nieto.

This statement served as the point that civility was lost between the nominees. Trump immediately lashed back, stating “The NAFTA deal signed by her husband is one of the worst deals ever made of any kind signed by anybody. It’s a disaster.”  The discussion of border policy showed that Trump is calling for very strong borders, while Clinton is calling for looser borders and increased trade with foreign countries.

Rounding the discussion on border policy, Wallace went on to comment on the recent influx of information on the Clinton foundation as released by the website Wikileaks. Wallace stated, “Secretary Clinton, I want to clear up your position on this issue because in a speech you gave to a Brazilian bank for which you were paid $225,000, we’ve learned from Wikileaks, that you said this, and I want to quote, ‘My dream is a hemispheric common market with open trade and open borders.’”

Clinton dodged the implications of the question expertly, pushing herself as far away from guilt as possible, stating, “What is really important about WikiLeaks is that the Russian government has engaged in espionage against Americans. They have hacked American websites, American accounts of private people, of institutions.” This sidestep effectively pushed the topic to Russia and foreign policy, but left viewers with a lurking suspicion of Clinton’s own honesty. This was possibly a mistake for Clinton as many Americans see her as experienced, but not trustworthy.

Trump also did not portray himself as well as he needed to during the debate. For example when referring to drug leaders in America he stated, “We have some bad hombres here and we’re going to get them out.” Considering Trump went into this debate walking on eggshells to gain many minority votes, this statement could be seen as a misstep.

The old adage “what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas” does not apply to this debate. What was said will have lasting repercussions for both of these candidates’ political futures, and in approximately two weeks it will be seen who out of the two of these people will win the title of president.

On November 8th, the American people will decide who they deem more suitable to run their country: Mr. Donald Trump or Secretary Hillary Clinton.