Democrat Hillary Clinton will press Republican Donald Trump to provide more specifics on his policies in their presidential debate on Monday, two top Clinton campaign aides said ahead of a face-off that could set US television audience records.
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Campaign managers for Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton disagreed Sunday on whether the moderator for Monday night’s debate, NBC News anchor Lester Holt, should challenge false assertions by the candidates. He denied the decade-plus affair but under oath during for his impeachment trial, Bill confessed to starting the affair with Flowers while he was Arkansas governor.
“It’s legitimate to have a business person sitting there who’s been advocating for you because of your economic policies”, Clinton campaign strategist Joel Benenson told “Fox News Sunday”.
“The difference is that Hillary Clinton is doing it with a legitimate businessman, also a celebrity”, she said.
The poll shows that as the election gets closer to Election Day in November, the race continues to tighten.
Longtime Clinton aide Philippe Reines, a combative political operative, is purportedly playing Trump in the rehearsals.
The canned zinger is a staple of presidential debates that, if done right, can leave a mark. As secretary of state, she stressed the importance of women’s rights in of USA foreign policy.
Anne Holton, a former secretary of education in Virginia, will campaign in MI for Clinton and her husband on Tuesday and Wednesday, with stops planned in Detroit, Ann Arbor, Lansing and Grand Rapids. Trump’s disappearing act was all the more remarkable because he was nearly always smack dab in the center of the stage thanks to his strong position in the polls. But advisers contend he will compensate by being quick on his feet and point to his experience at performing under pressure.
Clinton is reportedly carving out the weekend ahead to mock debate sessions in NY, and has even gone so far as to use an actual billionaire in Mark Cuban as a stand-in for Trump. Both camps expect high viewership with a TV audience that could top the record 80 million who watched Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan debate in 1980.
That poll, released Sunday, has Clinton at 40% to Trump’s 38%, with Johnson at 8% and Stein at 3%.
The Clinton campaign also leveled pretty much the same criticism toward Trump, saying he’s trying to distract people from the real issues in the campaign.
Hillary Clinton’s campaign is dispatching the wife of her running mate Tim Kaine to MI on Tuesday and Wednesday as Clinton and her surrogates fan out into battleground states following the first presidential debate Monday night. On ABC’s “This Week”, Trump Campaign Manager Kellyanne Conway cited the immunity deal as an example of why Clinton has a trust deficit with Americans. Trump has argued America needs to build the wall to preserve law and order “or we don’t have a country”. “If you are unable to control yourself, we should take a break and come back when you feel better and more capable of conducting yourself with the dignity befitting the honor of this presidential debate for the American voter”. Marco Rubio and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.
About two-thirds of African-Americans would be excited if Clinton is elected president, twice the percentage of all likely voters.
Trump is ahead of Clinton by more than four to one among white men without college degrees, a gap that narrows for white women without college degrees and college-educated white men. Bernie Sanders in 2016. “Some elections have turned on a debate or two”.
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“Running down the other guy won’t suffice to make that argument”.
