(Or, in other words: Is Obama Doing Well, How Much Do You Hate TPP, and Tell Us More About This Wall Idea.) Clinton’s additional challenge during the debate will be to seem relatable, while Trump’s is to seem competent on details and specifics; both will have to fight to pass the ever-important “candidate you’d want to have a beer with” test.
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It’s unclear how aggressive Clinton will be in trying to bait Trump during Monday night’s faceoff at New York’s Hofstra University.
“The only thing that matters is that first debate”, he said.
The stakes are high, with as many as 20% of voters saying they are still undecided.
It is estimated that there could be as many as 100 million people tuned into the presidential debate on Monday. Designed by my colleague Aaron Bycoffe, it lines the states up from most favorable for Hillary Clinton (Hawaii, Maryland) to best for Donald Trump (Wyoming, Alabama) based on the projected margin of victory in each one.
“Leads for Donald Trump in Georgia and Iowa and a virtual tie in Colorado plus a 6-point lead for Clinton in Virginia represent a major improvement overall for him in these states”, Brown said. Johnson gets his biggest tally among independents, 19 percent, with 38 percent of the unaffiliated voters backing Trump and 33 percent favoring Clinton.
If the debate is a tightly focused on what the two candidates know, and what they plan to do as president, Donald Trump will get blown out of the water. John McCain, R-Arizona.
Quickly put on the defensive, Mr Bush blinked rapidly and slouched behind the lectern. He said of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un that “you’ve got to give him credit” for maintaining power.
But the FiveThirtyEight analysis was written before the release of a number of good state-by-state polls for Clinton on Thursday. But when it came to attacks, Clinton might have outdone her opponent. “The smaller her debate book, the better off she’ll be”, said Sam Popkin, who’s prepped four Democratic candidates for debates and played Ronald Reagan in Jimmy Carter’s debate prep sessions.
The video’s rollout comes as Clinton takes new steps to reach out to millennials, many of whom have not warmed to her.
Millennials are souring on Hillary Clinton.
“You’re just not sure who is going to show up”, said Jennifer Palmieri, a senior adviser to Mrs Clinton. And if shes respectful of me, thatll be nice.. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a loyal Trump supporter, has been helping on issues such as the federal government’s relationship with the states.
The same percentage of Clinton supporters also listed her political experience as the main reason to vote for her, while 27 percent of Trump’s supporters chose him because he is a political outsider they believe will bring change, according to the poll.
Rick Lazio, a Republican former congressman from NY, found Mrs Clinton a tough opponent when he faced her in a US Senate debate in NY in 2000.
If you buy that argument, Trump could have an advantage over Clinton on the debate stage. “What he has to avoid is a sense that he is name-calling, highly disrespectful, badgering, anything like that”, he said.
“Being president would be such an extraordinary honor and responsibility”, she said, “but being the first woman elected president, and what that would mean for our country, and particularly what that would mean for not just little girls, but for little boys, too, that’s pretty special”.
Trump is already working the refs and creating a narrative in case he doesn’t do well. I doubt she ever asks herself that question, because if she did, it would kill her before her health conditions did. “I don’t want to present a false front”, he told the Times last month.
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Did Pence find it balderdash to question Trump’s assertion that “you would have riots” and “bad things would happen” if Trump were denied the GOP nomination?
