She said she expected Clinton to try to exploit Trump’s weaknesses and emphasize her strengths.
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On Saturday, he taunted Trump on Twitter: Donald.
Despite such compliments, an era of good feelings isn’t suddenly consuming the nasty 2016 presidential race. She said she was “not 100 percent for the wall (with Mexico), and hopes Trump will be “more humane and not too hardcore.”Clinton, making her second presidential bid, is an old hand at debates and considered solid”.
Trump took Friday to prepare, and still had to work Sunday on the debate.
Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia, Mrs Clinton’s running mate, praised Native American culture and highlighted his efforts to win federal recognition of the state’s tribes while visiting the Chickahominy Tribe Fall Festival near his home in Richmond. Although he has no formal or public role in her current campaign, it is known that Clinton still consults with him behind the scenes. Clinton needs a moment to connect with Americans who question whether she can be trusted.
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And both sides are trying to get into their opponent’s head.
It’s part of Clinton’s exhaustive debate prep this cycle; her campaign has been grappling with how best to tackle Trump without playing into Clinton’s image problems.
In particular, Mr Trump’s advisers believe a debate without major controversy would advance his cause with white college-educated women, who have been alienated by some of his rhetoric and antics on the campaign trail.
Of course, this quadrennial charade makes no sense.
“If you have somebody who’s narcissistic you want to threaten their ego”, he said.
The bar is higher for the Democratic candidate, given her experience and detailed knowledge of the issues. They also select the moderators. You’re going to have to feel it out when you’re out there.
How Clinton handles Trump is “a much bigger challenge”, Lamay says, with viewers scrutinizing not just the substance of her words but her demeanor, as well.
Reines – who worked for Clinton on her 2008 presidential campaign, as well as when she served as a NY senator and as secretary of state – has a reputation for being pugnacious like Trump, the Republican nominee and former reality TV star. Chris Wallace of Fox News Sunday will moderate.
Trump has argued Democratic complaints about Lauer were meant as a warning to Holt. “I think she deserves that, and I’m going to be nice“.
Debate games have a long history in politics.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. She’s an accomplished debater. But his team is taking a “Let Hillary be Hillary” approach to the first presidential debate.
The media bought into the idea that Gore was a rhetorical giant and Bush was a oratorical pygmy.
Gore’s failure to meet that bar severely wounded his campaign.
“The first debate is the most important of all the debates, and it definitely has the most potential to harm”. “But because of the expectations game, Bush was seen as the victor”. One risks sounding scripted in an event that prizes spontaneity, the other risks sounding casual in an event that tests his presidential demeanor.
Some political scientists have questioned whether presidential debates have a large impact on the election as a whole. “But I worry a little bit about psychologists over-claiming expertise as though there’s some well-established body of psychological science that says, ‘Oh you should really do X as a candidate.’ I’m just not aware of any along those lines”.
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His comment, a classic of the expectations setting genre, might also have been a tongue-in-cheek acknowledgment of the absurdity of pre-debate spin.
