Hillary Clinton was candid with supporters at a high-dollar fundraiser in the Hamptons on Monday afternoon, seeking their advice on debating Trump and telling them that she was preparing to debate an unpredictable candidate.
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Three Emerson College polls released Monday found that Clinton and Trump each have 43 percent support in OH, while she leads him by 5 points in MI, 45 percent to 40 percent, and by 3 points in Pennsylvania, 46 to 43 percent. But Trump’s stand-ins struggled to do so even as they stayed tightly together on the details they know: Trump will issue more details on the immigration plan soon, the policy will be humane, and despite his clear wavering, he’s been “consistent” on the issue. Clinton is on her second day of a three-day fundraising swing there and reporters traveling with her – and waiting in the basement of the host’s home – overheard what she was saying.
“Somebody said to me, ‘remember, there will be about 100 million people watching and 60 million will be paying attention to the campaign for the first time, ‘” Clinton said.
Clinton mused that Trump might seek to look or act presidential in order to “to convey a gravity”. “But there will be a lot of new impressions to be made that night”.
More than half (54%) of those polled by Monmouth said donors to the Clinton Foundation were given special treatment, while 26% said there was nothing out of the ordinary. In a statement to the AP, Ms Clinton said her father’s business gave her “a sense of responsibility”.
The former secretary of state also discussed her speech in Reno earlier this month, where she accused to Trump campaign of being built on “prejudice and paranoia”, accusing the Republican nominee of racism and arguing that “fringe” elements have taken over the Republican Party.
“I just don’t speak for Donald Trump”, Reince Priebus said Sunday. “And nobody knows how well he is doing and how his embrace of Trump and Trump’s acceptance of him could put that man, that despicable man, in the Senate of the United States”.
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As the Democratic presidential nominee works to undercut Mr Trump’s economic record and promote her plans for small businesses, she is invoking memories of her late father’s Chicago drapery business. “And what we have got to do is stand up”.
