Earlier this week, Americans received a very unexpected report: that former Republican President George H.W. Bush would be voting for Democrat nominee Hillary Clinton.
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As Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump square off in a series of debates in one of the most polarized USA elections to date, Democracy Now! has broken the sound barrier by expanding the debate-including major third party candidates shut out by the corporate-sponsored Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD).
People familiar with Clinton’s preparations say she has been working through answers to questions that hit at her lack of trustworthiness in the eyes of many Americans, a problem that has dogged her throughout the campaign.
“If you simulate what could happen in the debates, then you understand how to handle those moments when they actually do happen”, he said.
The analysts have said that the two candidates were taking vastly different approaches and their divergent strategies revealed how the two and their campaigns see the race, their strengths and their opponents’ weaknesses. Reines is a combative political operative who is deeply loyal to Clinton.
“Even if he meets some kind of lowered bar of being semi-coherent and not having any outbursts, it’s hard to imagine he’ll avoid his own propensity for lying”, said Brian Fallon, Clinton’s campaign spokesman. Meanwhile, lawyer and agent Bob Barnett is playing Pence in debate prep sessions with Kaine.
Reines was a press secretary for Clinton during her Senate tenure and one of her closest advisers as secretary of state.
Clinton is eager to play offense and try to get under his skin, by doing things like calling him “Donald” and questioning his net worth, the New York Times quoted campaign officials as saying.
In this September 21, 2016, photo, people stand outside the David S. Mack Sports and Exhibition Complex on the campus of Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y., at the site of the first presidential debate.
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For the record, the elder Bush is 92, while Rumsfeld – who announced his support of GOP nominee Donald Trump in June – is 84. Whatever time is left the moderator can use to ask more questions or allow more debate.
