Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and Democratic rival Hillary Clinton are set to face off in the highly-anticipated first of three presidential debates at Hofstra University in NY on Monday evening.
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Donald Trump Jr was speaking to Sky News on the eve of a debate between his father and Democratic Party rival Hillary Clinton about undecided voters.
Lonna Atkeson, director of the Center for the Study of Voting, Elections and Democracy at the University of New Mexico, said Clinton’s most urgent challenge in Monday’s debate is to appeal to younger voters, who have been persistently lukewarm about her candidacy.
Both contenders suffer from high disapproval ratings from voters, and the debates represent both opportunity and risk.
After Clinton invited billionaire owner of the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks, Mark Cuban, to watch the debate in the front row at Hofstra University on Long Island, New York, Trump chose to fire back.
The first of three debates (the other two are on October 9 and October 19), the showdown will be moderated by NBC News anchor Lester Holt, who is expected to divide the 90-minute session into three different topical segments: the Direction of America, Achieving Prosperity and Securing America.
Lester Holt, 57, the respected anchor of NBC’s evening news program, the country’s most widely watched. It will air on NBC at 9:00pm. “It is wrong”, Frank J. Fahrenkopf Jr., co-chairman of the Commission on Presidential Debates, said on CNN.
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The debate will be divided into six segments of approximately 15 minutes each, with two segments apiece on the following three topics: America’s Direction, Achieving Prosperity and Securing America. “Aside from the primary debates.Trump’s lack of formal, political, one-on-one debate experience gives Clinton a significant advantage”, he argues. Hillary Clinton once faced down the Senate Foreign Affairs Select Committee in a solo grilling that lasted two entire days. Spicer pointed out that “Clinton is a career politician who has spent years sharpening her debate reflexes and beefing up on public policy”.
Hillary’s confidants say that even her supporters take shots at her without knowing they’re doing so, as when former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell said this week that he’d like to see her “smile more” during Monday’s debate. Although he has no formal or public role in her current campaign, it is known that Clinton still consults with him behind the scenes. In a first for a Republican candidate, he has a woman campaign manager.
Some 42 percent of voters said Trump was honest and trustworthy, while 53 percent said he was not.
The showdown at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y., unquestionably is the most-anticipated political event in history and, when all is said and done, might be the most watched. Bernie Sanders in 2012.
17 per cent of the registered voters said that the debate could change their minds.
“While the Russians laughed off the error and accepted the gift in the spirit of cooperation that it was meant, I’ve been sic [sic] about the mistake since, especially that I let down the Secretary and the fine professionals at the State Department”, Reines said in an email to Politico at the time.
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“Of all the big moments in a campaign, this is the only one where the American people are judging both candidates side by side and next to each other”, Michael Feldman, who helped run Al Gore’s campaign in 2000, told CBS News.
