This repo contains data on roughly 150,000 debate tweets. However, to make the data compliant with Twitter's terms of service, the public data only contains tweet IDs. A short python script to convert that list of tweet IDs into the full twitter data is coming soon.
chrisalbon/second_2016_presidential_debate_twitter
150,000 tweets from 2016's second presdential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump
Python