Trump, Clinton finally got a question on national debt. They whiffed bigly

The final debate has come and gone, but there’s a glaring hole in one of the biggest policy questions that impacts millennials: the national debt, which currently hovers just below $20 trillion.

In the waning moments of Wednesday night’s contest between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, moderator Chris Wallace took the candidates to task by holding their plans to reduce the national debt to the fire.

Wallace cited the Committee for a Responsible Budget’s estimate that under Clinton’s plan debt would rise to 86 percent of the GDP (from 77 percent). Under Trump’s plan, debt would rise to 105 percent of the GDP over the next ten years.

Trump went on the defense first by saying those estimates were completely wrong.

“I’m going to create tremendous jobs,” Trump claimed. “And we’re bringing GDP from, really, 1 percent, which is what it is now, and if she got in, it will be less than zero. But we’re bringing it from 1 percent up to 4 percent.”