Trump misspelled Flowers’ first name, with a J, then tweeted again to fix the mistake.
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The controversy over the U.S. billionaire property tycoon’s “invite” to Ms Flowers as a guest at the first debate in NY on Monday night began a few days ago. Ms. Clinton first invited billionaire Mark Cuban – who has been a bugbear for Mr. Trump for years – to be in the front row during the debate.
Mook added on Trump, “He’s a reality TV star”.
The will-she-or-won’t-she attend flap began after Hillary Clinton’s campaign reportedly invited Mark Cuban, a Trump critic and owner of the National Basketball Association’s Dallas Mavericks, to the debate. The New York Times reported Flowers said in a text message to the newspaper she would attend.
Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway, speaking on CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday, said “we have not invited (Flowers) formally and we don’t expect her to there as a guest of the Trump campaign”.
Bernie Sanders understands that some voters want to eschew Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump and instead cast their ballots for either Libertarian Gary Johnson or Green Party candidate Jill Stein in November-but on Sunday urged people to support Clinton, saying the stakes are too high this year for a “protest vote”. “You’re debating somebody, and if she makes a mistake, or if I make a mistake, we’ll take each other on”, Trump said in a Fox News interview on Thursday.
The former president denied the accusations of the affair at the time, only to admit it was the truth when he was under oath in 1998. He did so repeatedly as she clinched the Democratic nomination, accusing Hillary Clinton of mistreating the women involved in her husband’s affairs.
The Clinton campaign tried to push back on that narrative in a conference call with reporters it hosted Friday afternoon, complaining that the press has set lower expectations for Trump.
How much it matters: Remember this during your hypothetical mid-debate and post-debate freak-outs: whatever happens, even if it seems big, is unlikely to be the thing that decides the election; political science research suggests that massive debate “game-changers” more or less do not exist, and there are two more debates to go. Among registered voters, Clinton and Trump are tied at 41 percent, with Johnson at 7 percent and Stein at 2 percent.
The ABC News/Washington Post poll also underscored that the 9 p.m. ET Monday debate at Hofstra University in NY will be a crucial moment in the campaign for both candidates.
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Trump’s running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, assured home-schooling advocates in North Carolina that Trump would be their champion if elected. Sen.
