She said she was “not 100 per cent for the wall (with Mexico), and hopes Trump will be “more humane and not too hardcore”.
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The debate will be 90 minutes but could be defined by small moments.
“Have your team prepared and on high alert afterward to drive your debate message”, he wrote. That argument has mostly ignored the fact that there isn’t a simple point system or a single list of criteria for deciding who “wins” a presidential debate.
“When I read about these giant debate books they’re preparing for her, I cringe”, Samuel Popkin of UC San Diego, who coached several earlier Democratic candidates before their debates, told NPR this week. Clinton now leads Trump by 3 points in the RealClearPolitics average of polling, 46 percent to 43 percent. “Some people think she’s sleeping”. Again, the difference between Trump and Clinton is within the margin of error. Most of his friends and neighbors in Johnstown have lined up behind the billionaire businessman Trump. He will be seeking to improve his image with moderate Republican voters and undecided independents who likely won’t be swayed by the kind of partisan attacks he launched in the primary debates.
Among college educated white women, Clinton leads Trump in the poll by 57 per cent to 32 per cent.
Rumors are that Gennifer Flowers, who in the 1990s had an affair with Bill Clinton, will be in the front row of the debate audience.
Many voters are tuning in to Monday’s debate to cheer on their chosen candidate, and they fully expect their choice to emerge the victor. She didn’t come off as likable.
Clinton is joined in the sessions by Huma Abedin, her longtime aide; John Podesta, her campaign chairman; and Jake Sullivan, Clinton’s top policy aide, according to the sources.
His numbers have been improving since, helped in no small measure by Clinton’s troubles over her use of a private email server as secretary of state, and a health scare on September 11, when she appeared unable to walk or stand by herself.
Host Seth Meyers calls Donald Trump’s attempt to shift blame from himself to Hillary Clinton for the birther movement one of the biggest cons. Bush got more serious about the debates after that, O’Donnell said. It was also possible that some of these voters would pick an alternative-party candidate like Libertarian Gary Johnson or the Green Party’s Jill Stein.
Representing the Democratic Party, Clinton (49 per cent) is two points ahead of Trump (47 per cent) among likely voters in a two-way matchup, The Washington Post and ABC News said in a joint poll carried out by them.
In recent years, presidential debates may have been less consequential to election outcomes than they were early on.
That’s a central problem in Monday’s debate: The candidates face different challenges – so they have different objectives.
There will be a total of three presidential debates and one face-off between the two vice-presidential candidates, Democrat Tim Kaine and Republican Mike Pence.
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“The moderator asks the questions, does the follow-up, oversees the time, and is responsible for both the substance and the process of the debate while it’s live in action”, she said.
