It is the first of three presidential debates.
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Workers install the set for the first USA presidential debate at Hofstra University on September 24, 2016 in Hempstead, New York. Trump has spent years on Americans’ television screens as a reality show host, but it can still be jarring to see him at politics’ upper echelons.
“She’ll really be on uncharted territory – a lot of her main vulnerabilities she has not had to defend on a debate stage”, said Mr. Kall, using examples such as the emails, her health, the Clinton Foundation and her recent description of some Trump supporters as a “basket of deplorables”.
Of course, more or less everything Democrats say about Trump, Republicans say about Clinton.
Vice President Joe Biden’s more hands-off style when he debated Sarah Palin in 2008 vs. Paul Ryan in 2012 is attributed to gender concerns, and Rick Lazio’s attempt to get Hillary Clinton to sign a paper pledging against soft money in a 2000 Senate debate was described at the time as “intimidating”.
Nearly 1.5 percent of the almost 1,500 questions asked by moderators during the Republican and Democratic primary debates were about global warming – the League of Conservation Voters believes that percentage needs to be increased.
Will anyone else be on the debate stage?
Trump has been criticized throughout the campaign for crass comments he has made about women in the past, including insults about their physical appearance.
The debate commission, known for looking askance at so much as applause from the audience, was quick to react in horror. But advisers contend he will compensate by being quick on his feet and point to his experience at performing under pressure. “I can’t tell whether she was for it or against it”, Obama said.
Clinton aides fear Trump will indeed be judged more for his performance than his grasp of the numerous challenges that pass across a president’s desk.
Here’s what we can be fairly sure will happen in Monday’s presidential debate: Donald Trump will lie repeatedly and grotesquely, on a variety of subjects. They’ve been flummoxed by Trump’s ability to sail through the campaign without fleshing out many policy positions and glossing over past statements that he no longer views as politically palatable. Ted Cruz, who denounced Trump in the primary campaign but announced Friday that he strongly opposed Clinton and would vote for his former rival.
Clinton, Glenn said, will demonstrate a better grasp of policy and information.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump waves to the crowd during a rally in Roanoke, Va., Saturday, Sept. 24, 2016.
“It’s a very lovely place and we’re all very proud of it”, he said.
Earlier Saturday, one of Clinton’s supporters, Massachusetts Sen. “The differences don’t have to be manufactured”.
Reagan won his debate with Carter because his sunny disposition and demeanor and his “There you go again!” airy dismissal of Carter’s nit-picking contradicted the malevolent media-created caricatures of the Gipper as a unsafe primitive or an amiable dunce. He flipped back and forth between being bombastic and trying to act restrained.
When Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump square off at Hofstra University in NY for the first presidential debate of the general election Monday night, the stakes – and the television ratings – will be sky high.
“If dopey Mark Cuban of failed Benefactor fame wants to sit in the front row, perhaps I will put Gennifer Flowers right alongside of him!” tweeted Trump, himself a billionaire real estate investor.
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On Saturday, Silver wrote that, while just a few days ago Clinton seemed in more dire straights, the past week has seen mixed results – with her campaign pulling 5-6 percentage point leads in several national polls but falling far behind Trump in swing states like Iowa and OH, with a tie in Maine.
