Hillary Clinton campaign aides are being outspoken about it: If moderators “close their ears to Donald Trump’s lies, it will extend an unfair bias to Donald Trump. I doubt he will have a command of the issues”. Especially in the first debate!
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On Monday, Clinton, as she has many times in the past, is likely to impress the audience.
But this will be her first presidential debate against a candidate from an opposing party.
Clinton’s camp is urging the debate moderator, NBC’s Lester Holt, to call out Trump if he lies about Clinton or the issues, although there is a festering controversy within the media and among members of the national debate commission over whether the moderator should be the arbiter of truth or simply the referee in the debate.
With the most anticipated the presidential debate in modern history slated for Monday night, the mud is already flying. It is not exactly clear.
Meanwhile, Trump threatened Saturday to bringing a former lover of Clinton’s husband Bill Clinton to the debate, one of a series of references he has made to the ex-president’s infidelities.
There will be two more presidential debates after Monday night – one on October 9 and another on October 19.
The vice presidential debate between Mike Pence and Tim Kaine will occur on 4 October at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia and will be moderated by CBS News correspondent and CBSN anchor Elaine Quijano.
Experts consider the first of the three scheduled debates to be key, given that it will set the tone and the narrative for the last stretch of the campaign leading up to the November 8 election.
The U.S. has been plagued by two big-business parties for most of its existence. In August, Fox News drew an all-time record 24 million viewers to its GOP primary debate, while several other networks set debate ratings records throughout the primary season. She also co-founded the Arkansas Advocates for Children & Families early in her career and delivered a seminal speech as first lady declaring that “women’s rights are human rights”.
On Monday Night, candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton square off for their first general election debate, a primetime event that is expected to shatter viewing records, despite a large number of the Republican’s fans set to be distracted by Monday Night Football, with television executives projecting an audience over 100 million capturing almost the entire universe of likely American voters. It’s quite possible that a few sharp questions from the moderator or a stinging rebuttal from Hillary Clinton will cause Donald Trump to lose the tenuous hold he has on his own temper and rationality. Pictured (L-R) are Hofstra students Joseph Burch and Caroline Mullen.
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“The difference is that Hillary Clinton is doing it with a legitimate businessman, also a celebrity”, she said. “What can you tell, not about a choice, but in terms of somebody who wants to be president, what can you tell voters other than “trust us” that Hillary Clinton’s going to do to increase transparency and openness were she to become president?”
