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The US presidential debate: what you need to know

Here’s a quick look at Monday’s debate.

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The debate will last ninety minutes with no breaks.

Winning campaigns aren’t plagued by finger-pointing and infighting. “You’re not sure who is going to show up”, Clinton’s communications director Jennifer Palmieri told reporters this week.

“We’re probably looking at a modestly positive week pushing the high end of the S&P 500, unless something comes out of the debate that spells real success for Trump”, said Phil Blancato, chief executive of Ladenburg Thalmann Asset Management in NY.

Yes, but it might be the only Trump tattoo that we’ve ever seen but it certainly is “huge”. They come to see who scores, in presidential debates, too.

That makes Mark Levine a ideal apologist for his party’s presidential contender: hypocritical, mean-spirited, and contemptuous of anybody who disagree with him.

Now that confidence is shaken by Clinton’s lack of candor about her pneumonia and her foolish choice to dismiss half of Trump’s supporters as “deplorables”. Nor does it much matter that moderator Lester Holt of NBC News has been labeled “a Democrat” by Trump.

“My advice? Stay at the podium!” the former US congressman from Long Island told the Daily News in an email Friday.

Clinton will talk about the benefits of a higher minimum wage, but she has to more specifically outline what she can really do to speed up employment gains.

On Saturday, Silver wrote that, while just a few days ago Clinton seemed in more dire straights, the past week has seen mixed results – with her campaign pulling 5-6 percentage point leads in several national polls but falling far behind Trump in swing states like Iowa and OH, with a tie in Maine. Clinton proposes to seize the future and make America greater. A video that appeared this week showed Clinton, addressing labor union members, wondering aloud and with no small sense of annoyance why she wasn’t “50 points ahead”.

Clinton has years of experience dealing with foreign governments.

Trump’s advisers have coached the celebrity businessman to resist attempts by Clinton to provoke him with questions about his business record, wealth or contentious comments about minorities, including his fabricated theories about where Obama was born.

The newspaper praised the former secretary of state for her realistic views in regard to foreign policy, which focuses on pursuing matters overseas rather than considering the U.S. as an isolated nation, tacitly denouncing her rival, GOP nominee Donald Trump, for his divisive outlook, which involves building a wall on the Mexican border to keep asylum seekers out and calls for a complete ban on Muslims seeking refuge in the country.

Clinton needs to have a ready answer to that.

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The Miami audience laughed, understanding Trump’s point. Who can provide compelling answers on how to improve immigration policies and race relations in USA cities? Trump would provide incentives for private investment, economic growth, and job creation, a policy that worked brilliantly for Presidents Kennedy and Reagan.

Heading into the presidential debate two key points to remember