Mark Cuban, the owner of the Dallas Mavericks, was invited by the Clinton campaign to sit in the front row at Monday night’s debate.
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Reines began playing Trump in Clinton’s prep as soon as the July party conventions ended, the report said.
Flowers responded on her own Twitter account: “Hi Donald”.
A longtime Clinton confidant is portraying Trump in her practice debate sessions, two people familiar with the debate preparations tell CNN.
The Times characterizes Reines as blunt and well-versed in Clinton’s political and personal weaknesses, suggesting Clinton is expecting Trump to personally attack her and try and get under her skin.
“I can always trust him to speak his mind”, Clinton wrote in her book.
Although he has no formal or public role in her current campaign, it is known that Clinton still consults with him behind the scenes.
Much of her prep is focused on the unpredictable nature of Trump’s personality, her campaign says. “I don’t know what I’m going to do that exactly”, Trump said during an interview on “The O’Reilly Factor”. He went on to become a senior adviser to Clinton at the State Department.
Among aide’s top concerns for Monday night are that Trump will be graded differently than Clinton, given his relative inexperience compared to the former secretary of state, who has debated upwards of 40 times, including debates in 2008 and during her Senate run in 2000. Trump tweeted. The GOP presidential nominee sent out an original tweet with the same statement, but he misspelled Flowers’ name. “Any candidate who tells this many lies clearly can’t win the debate on the merit”, Jennifer Palmieri, Clinton’s communications director, said on a call with reporters.
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NBC’s Lester Holt will moderate Monday’s debate, which will be held at Hofstra University in Hempstead, NY.
