Mook, Clinton’s campaign manager, sought to seize on the Flowers episode Sunday to portray Trump as unfit for the role of commander in chief.
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On Monday night, Trump needs to exercise a discipline we’ve never seen before from him and expose all the reasons why voters shouldn’t “vote for her”. “The presidency’s not about entertainment”, Mook said, referring to the show Trump once starred in, The Apprentice. If abortion is discussed at a debate, it can finally give Donald Trump the opportunity to deliver a clear answer on where he stands specifically, and whether his views have changed since his “punishment” response.
The New York Times editorial board officially endorsed Hillary Clinton on Saturday, in an op-ed that explicitly states its intent to fire up left-wing voters who are indifferent to the Democratic nominee.
As for Clinton, Brown describes her as more reserved but says it will be interesting how Clinton greets Trump.
Cutter told Todd she remembered that during a presidential debate in 2004, as a member John Kerry’s campaign staff, she invited several 9/11 widows to the debate to “make the point that we had a lot of work to do to get back on track in Afghanistan and Iraq took us of course”.
“But (Clinton) has a challenge because Donald Trump … inveterately says things that aren’t true”, Podesta added – a point the Clinton campaign appeared to use as ammo for their call for moderator Lester Holt to fact-check Trump.
The list also included former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, former Veterans Affairs Secretary Anthony Principi and former deputy White House political director Matt Schlapp, who is chairman of the American Conservative Union.
With the most anticipated the presidential debate in modern history slated for Monday night, the mud is already flying.
Clinton campaign officials were out in force on Sunday, warning that Trump shouldn’t be held to an easier standard during the debate, and urging the moderator to fact-check the Republican in real time. Fox News’s Chris Wallace, who is hosting the third and final debate, is already there-he told Fox earlier this month that it’s not his job to fact-check candidates because he’s “not a truth squad”.
Flowers said during Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign that the two of them had engaged in an affair over a dozen years. “You just put out a statement and reminded people who had no idea, taught people who had no idea, who Gennifer Flowers is”. “I’ve met Hillary Clinton a number of times and followed her career in public service”.
The Associated Press first reported Friday that three additional former State Department staffers got immunity agreements as part of the FBI investigation, including Clinton chief of staff Cheryl Mills.
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Clinton, on the other hand, released a policy a year ago and has spent much of her life advocating for women and girls. Within hours, both campaigns said they were dropping plans to visit the city in the upcoming days.
