A cameraman is silhouetted against an an American flag during preparations for the presidential debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, NY, Sunday, Sept. 25, 2016.
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The debate will mark the first occasion presidential candidates Donald Trump (R) and Hillary Clinton (D) face one another in a live, open forum.
As many as 90 million people are expected to tune in when Trump and Clinton face off at Hofstra University in NY six weeks before the November 8 election.
Donald Trump has said he is “greatly honoured” to receive the endorsement of defeated rival Ted Cruz – although Mr Cruz did not use the word “endorsement” as he acknowledged that he will vote for the Republican presidential nominee in the forthcoming U.S. election.
Clinton really needs to utilize the time to outline an America with her as commander-in-chief, according to McCalla.
Both candidates have been viewing hours of footage of their opponent to assess their debate style – and their campaigns have strained to hang high expectations on their rivals in an effort to minimize the impact of their own flaws.
According to Kantar Media’s political advertising tally, the business mogul has only spent $22 million on TV and radio ads during the general election, while Hillary ClintonHillary Rodham ClintonTrump threatens to bring Gennifer Flowers to debate State IT official warned Clinton “inner circle” about concerns with email setup New York Times endorses Clinton MORE’s campaign has spent $124 million. She’s called for expanding Obama’s executive orders if Congress won’t pass legislation to overhaul the nation’s immigration system and for broader gun control measures. For example, Trump’s plan to defeat the Islamic State is little more than a vow to do so, with few details. Clinton herself acknowledges that she can not match the charisma of her husband, Bill Clinton, or of Obama.
Will Donald Trump talk abut the size of his hands again? She’s a veteran of the 2008 election and an experienced debater. “It depends on what level she hits you with, if she’s fair, if it’s unfair, but certainly I’m not looking to do that”. Trump wants to build a wall between the US and Mexico to stop all of this insanity.
The debate could break all records for a United States political audience, given the sharply contrasting personalities – and positions – of Trump and Clinton. Clinton’s team told NBC News they don’t know “which Donald Trump will show up” for Monday’s debate, so they are preparing several lines of attack.
Although Trump himself has said he has a “tremendous problem” in Utah, his son said voters here will see he’s running on values Mormons and other Utahns share, including the importance of family. “Voters held that against him”. Instead they’ve been pointing out what many Democrats say is a double standard – that Trump, as President Obama said recently, tends to be graded on a curve.
He said he advised the Clinton campaign that she should just laugh if Trump tries to attack her on the debate stage. About 13 percent said they were undecided.
“You have to be fair to everyone”, he said. The two candidates have been laying into each other for a year but have never appeared face-to-face on the same stage, just strides apart. Network executives expect at least 80 million people to tune in, and a poll published Wednesday projected as many as 106 million viewers – a Super Bowl-sized audience, and the largest for any presidential debate since 1980. Bernie Sanders in 2016.
More generally, the two candidates’ supporters are about equally likely to say the US role in world affairs is very or extremely important, 71 percent for Clinton’s supporters to 69 percent for Trump’s.
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“I do not believe that it’s my job to be a truth squad”, Wallace said on Fox News this month.
