On Sunday’s talk shows, Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence said on CBS’ “Face the Nation” Trump will be truthful during the confrontation while Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta warned Trump will pepper his responses with falsehoods.
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The Washington Post-ABC News poll found that Clinton’s slim margin from last month has now vanished. Answer the pollster calls to support Gary Johnson’s inclusion in the second debate.
In a head to head poll between Clinton and Trump, Clinton still leads 44 percent to 42 percent, indicating that Johnson and Stein take more points from Clinton than they do Trump. That’s a drop for Clinton, who led by 8 points in the same poll a week earlier.
A Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll shows that one-third of voters say the debate will be “extremely” or “quite” important in their decision on who to support for president. Some 53% of white voters back Trump, compared to 37% for Clinton, while non-white voters back her 69% to 19% for her Republican rival.
According to Saturday’s poll, Trump’s fortunes rest on his core supporters, white men who lack a four-year college degree, an economically stressed and socially and politically conservative group. Polls are showing that issue continues to register with voters, while Trump’s tax returns and Clinton’s deplorables comment has not.
The two candidates are still grappling with high negativity among voters. Those who do have an opinion are evenly split between Clinton (25 percent) and Trump (25 percent).
The two billionaires have feuded regularly in recent years.
The newspaper described Clinton as “one of the most tenacious politicians of her generation” and said she had displayed a command of policy and diplomatic nuance while building a reputation for grit and bipartisan cooperation.
She told Clinton campaign volunteers in Nashua, New Hampshire, that she would never have predicted that a major presidential candidate would base a campaign on scapegoating Mexicans, women and Muslims.
In an attempt to intimidate Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton invited Mark Cuban to sit in the front row of the first Presidential debates.
The Republican candidate wrote: “If dopey Mark Cuban of failed Benefactor fame wants to sit in the front row, perhaps I will put Gennifer Flowers right alongside of him!”
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Flowers confirmed she will attend Monday night’s debate (broadcast in Australia on Tuesday) in a text message to The New York Times: “Yes I will be there”. “And, again, I think the great virtue of these debates is you get 90 minutes to look at people and really see whether there’s depth, whether there’s substance, and whether there’s candor and truthfulness in what they say”.
