“If this is what Donald Trump wants this debate to be about, that’s up to him”, Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook said on ABC.
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The woman who almost upended Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential run has not been invited to Monday’s night’s debate, Donald Trump’s running mate said Sunday. “The best case for Hillary Clinton can not be, and is not, that she isn’t Donald Trump”, the newspaper said in an editorial for yesterday’s newspaper that was published online today.
On Saturday a furious Trump tweeted that “perhaps” he would put Flowers in the front row alongside “dopey Mark Cuban” – the Shark Tank judge and businessman whom he despises who said he would be attending the debate.
Which brings us to Sunday morning.
Cuban, of ABC’s “Shark Tank”, tweeted: “Just got a front-row seat to watch @HillaryClinton overwhelm @realDonaldTrump at the “Humbling at Hofstra” on Monday”.
It said Clinton’s decision to use a private email server for government work as secretary of state deserved the scrutiny it has received in the campaign, but considered alongside the real challenges facing the United States it “looks like a matter for the help desk”.
Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn was less committal, telling Chuck Todd on Meet the Press “we’ll wait to see what happens tomorrow night”.
Flowers had an extramarital affair with Bill Clinton in the late 1980s. Flynn said. “I mean, he’s not a- he’s not a legitimate person”.
Finally, Trump’s running mate, Governor Mike Pence, was more definitive.
Speaking on “Fox News Sunday”, Pence said a tweet by Trump saying Flowers could be in Hempstead was “mocking” the Clinton campaign’s efforts to distract voters.
On Saturday, hours after his tweet about Flowers, Trump was on-message as he read a measured political attack on Clinton from a teleprompter at a rally in Roanoke, Virginia, making no mention of the debate.
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Providing a metaphor for the problem that has been plaguing Clinton’s candidacy since the beginning Mook argued that Hillary was entitled to preferentially treatment at the debate – “We’re saying this is a special circumstance, a special debate”.
