But Trump, a political newcomer who has often shown more affinity for putdowns than policy, could benefit from lower expectations from voters.
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The Trump campaign later said it won’t invite Flowers to the debate.
In a debate that is already shaping up to be a much anticipated media event (100 million people are expected to tune in), the Flowers controversy only adds to the drama.
Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway said it was meant to show the NY billionaire had ways “to get inside the head of Hillary Clinton” but she told CNN there were no plans to actually invite Flowers.
Clinton’s aides, meanwhile, anxious publicly that Trump, a wealthy TV star and real-estate developer making his first bid for public office, would be held to a lower standard on the debate stage than Clinton, a former secretary of State who has spent decades in public life. “Only I can fix it”, he said in his convention speech, and his campaign revolves around the idea that it is the force of his personality and singular brilliance that will solve problems.
The debate on Long Island underscores New York’s central role in this year’s presidential race – Trump, the Manhattan real estate mogul, and Clinton, the state’s former USA senator, will have the opportunity to tout their qualifications before a home crowd of almost 1,000 campaign supporters, Hofstra students, and event sponsors. “Gennifer Flowers will not be attending the debate tomorrow night”, Pence said flatly on Fox News Sunday.
The line of questioning came under fire, in part, due to the fact that Stephanopoulos is a former campaign advisor and White House Communications Director under Bill Clinton. With the issue of police force – particularly toward minorities – dominating headlines, the politics of race is guaranteed to be a discussion topic. But be sure to check out our presidential debate primer to see how each candidate will be looking to attack the other one.
“Running down the other guy won’t suffice to make that argument”.
For Clinton, that means articulating her hopeful vision with specifics, mapping her foreign policy strategy, making a case for her qualifications to guide a sometimes shaky economy, trying to put to rest questions about her candor, including on the subject of emails and security.
The Times counted only Trump’s “biggest whoppers”, 31 of them, while skipping “dozens more”. In fact, it’s hard to think of a presidential election where the two candidates were more different in more ways. Clinton has urged measured responses that ensure that an entire religion is not villanized – Trump, meanwhile, has suggested using methods of racial profiling and keeping out entire ethnic groups as a safety measure.
The size of the audience is expected to challenge the presidential debate record of 80-million who watched the 1980 encounter between Democratic president Jimmy Carter and Republican Ronald Reagan.
Who: Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, moderator Lester Holt of NBC News; Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson and Green Party nominee Jill Stein failed to make the debate based on recent polling.
“They feel it’s very sexist to hold her responsible for his bad behavior”, she said. “It’s a very unfair system”, Trump said. The “Today” show host moderated the network’s “Commander-in-Chief Forum” earlier this moth, and the reviews were disastrous.
Their rivalry is intense as Mr Trump has labelled Mrs Clinton crooked and dishonest and she considers him inexperienced and unfit for the office.
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With regards to fact-checking, “Lester is not going to be a potted plant”, one NBC staffer close to Holt said.
