In some ways, this group looks like a typical Trump supporter: they are mainly white, without college degrees, older, and frustrated by the status quo.
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She has hinted that if Trump appears more restrained onstage, she’ll remind voters of the former reality TV star’s history of inflammatory comments and controversies.
Katie Packer, a Republican strategist who served as a top aide to Mitt Romney in 2012 said polls show that many undecided women have been put off by Trump’s inflammatory rhetoric, while others see Clinton, the first female presidential candidate from a major USA party, as dishonest. Her challenge: driving home her message to voters regardless of what he does, Palmieri said. She’s fluent in topics sure to come up in the debate and the lines of attack on her record she can expect from Trump, because they were part of the debates during the 2008 Democratic primary race.
The latest NBC/ Wall Street Journal poll gives Clinton a 6 point lead, 43 per cent to Trump’s 37 per cent, among likely voters. Perhaps most crucially, 56 per cent of voters say they would be afraid.
He may tend to belittle Clinton to the point of rudeness when he is speaking off the cuff, such as by making fun of her for recuperating from her recent pneumonia, the New York Times noted.
Ms Clinton led a separate four-way poll that included Trump, Mr Johnson and Ms Stein.
Throughout her campaign, Clinton has argued that Trump would be ill-equipped president to handle issues that matter to women and girls.
Clinton, in contrast, has spent most of this week with close aides at her Dutch colonial home in Chappaqua, a hamlet north of NY city. “I would also have her prepped to needle at Trump’s wildly overstated wealth, as that seems to be the one thing that most easily flusters him”.
He was widely criticized for saying Fox News host Megyn Kelly had “blood coming out of her wherever”, a comment many interpreted as referring to her menstruating, although he insisted that was not what he meant.
Clinton’s campaign has seized on the vulnerability.
However, Trump has promised a clean fight in which he will treat Clinton with “respect” and not bring up her husband Bill’s past sexual indiscretions, the Guardian reported.
“Hillary’s main goal is to be natural, authentic, and show humor without a script – be ‘likable enough.’ She’s a better debater than she gets credit for, but this debate will be far more about style than substance, because of Trump’s outsized presence on the stage”, Kochel said. While Lauer interrupted Clinton several times, he allowed Trump to repeat several frequently issued-and publicly debunked-lies without challenging the GOP nominee.
Federal Bureau of Investigation director James Comey recommended in July that no criminal charges be brought against Clinton for her handling of classified information while she was secretary of state, but he called her use of the server “extremely careless”. “Voters and viewers should keep track: any candidate who tells this many lies clearly can’t win the debate on the merits”, Palmieri said in the document’s introduction.
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“I’m very scared, most so for my kids and my grandkids”, Hammett said. She is leaning toward Clinton but wants to hear both candidates address national security. “I’m scared to death”.
