As you can imagine, it didn't go over smoothly.

About halfway through the debate, Clinton's foreign policy spokesman, Jesse Lehrich, had had it, and he tweeted this: (This is the strong language part, btw)

His Twitter rage continued, albeit slightly more edited:

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Before the debate was over, Lehrich apologized. But he did not delete his offending tweet.

It probably won't surprise you to hear there were a lot of really angry people on Twitter saying really angry things about the debate, which was one of the most negative in modern presidential history.

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Lehrich was one of them, yes, but Trump's team was at it, too.

Before the debate even began, the Republican nominee handed off his official account with a tongue-in-cheek reference to a comment Clinton made last month in a fundraiser about Trump's supporters:

When Trump went on the offensive in a major way -- accusing Clinton of intimidating some of her husband's accusers, lying about her emails and vowing to appoint a special prosecutor when he's president to put Clinton in prison -- Trump's Twitter accounts quickly followed their boss's lead, gleefully calling Clinton a liar and a crook and abusive:

Hillary Clinton's official account was at Trump's throat, too.

Candidates often have staff members tweet during a debates to amplify points the candidates make in real time.

Trump's Twitter feed did a pretty good job of channeling what their candidate was saying and doing on the debate stage.