Pence says Gennifer Flowers will not attend Trump, Clinton debate

Flowers said during Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign that the two of them had engaged in a lengthy affair over a dozen years.

His gibe came after billionaire investor Mark Cuban, a vocal Trump critic who backs Clinton, agreed to sit at the front of the audience for the televised debate, which is expected to shatter audience records with up to 90 million Americans watching.

A Clinton aide later told CNN that the Democratic presidential nominee’s campaign had indeed invited Cuban, which prompted Trump to tweet Saturday that he had invited Flowers to the debate Monday night at Hofstra University, in Long Island, N.Y.

The race between both major party’s nominees has been tightening ahead of the first presidential debate on Monday, where the candidates will face off against one another.

He denied the allegations then, but later admitted under oath in 1998 to having a sexual encounter with her.

Hillary Clinton continues to hold advantages over Donald Trump in the states she would need to win the presidency in November, but Donald Trump has made gains in some battleground states.

“Mark Cuban is one of the business leaders who was never involved in partisan politics who’s endorsed Hillary because he thinks she’ll do better for the economy”, Podesta said.

Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook told “State of the Union” bringing up Flowers just shows Trump is trying to bully his opponent.

“It’s a warning sign before the debate has even started about Donald Trump’s lack of fitness – his bullying tactics – that make him unfit to be president”, Mook said. An ABC News/Washington Post poll shows Clinton’s lead is 2 percentage points – with likely voters split 46% for Clinton, 44% for Trump, 5% supporting Libertarian Gary Johnson and 1% for the Green Party’s Jill Stein.

While some other national surveys show Clinton with a lead, poll averages show a low, single-digit margin.

The Clinton campaign has launched a attack ad calling on Trump to release his tax returns to prove he doesn’t have ties to Russian Federation.