Presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are expected to meet separately in NY with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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The 90-minute debate will begin at 1am GMT on Tuesday at Hofstra University on New York’s Long Island. “We can think of two presidential debates in American history, the first between [Democrat John] Kennedy and [Republican Richard] Nixon (1960) and the second between [Republican Gerald] Ford and [Democrat Jimmy] Carter (1976), where mistakes were made or appearances didn’t look right that seemed to have an impact on the outcome”, said Georgetown’s Stephen Wayne. Just 37 percent say they don’t think the Democratic nominee should release more about her health, according to the Franklin Pierce/Herald poll.
“Donald Trump’s had problems with the specifics so far, tomorrow night we’re going to see: Can he give some specifics?” “I doubt he will have a command of the issues”. “You know, for example, he has not revealed any plan whatsoever to defeat ISIS (Islamic State) militants”.
Those in the Democratic and Republican parties in Lee County said their eyes will be on Donald Trump, but for different reasons. “But she’s got to tell people what she wants to do for them”, John Podesta, chairman of Clinton’s campaign, told NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday.
Facts are a key concern for many, with Trump’s habit of saying things that are untrue and the public’s general distrust of Clinton. “Hillary Clinton’s casual relationship with the truth is well known to Americans. That’s why I want to see it, because it’s all just.it’s amusing, it’s amusing to me”.
The first of the three debates, traditionally the most watched, comes at a potentially game-changing moment, said Matthew Dallek of George Washington University.
After Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, a Clinton supporter and vociferous critic of Trump, tweeted that he had a “front-row” seat to watch the Hofstra debate, Trump raised the possibility in a tweet of inviting Flowers to the debate.
Trump’s running mate, Gov. Mike Pence of IN, later said categorically on CBS’ “Face the Nation” that Flowers would not be there.
“We’ve not invited her formally and don’t expect her to be there as a guest of the Trump campaign”, Ms Conway said of Mr Clinton’s ex-lover, former model Gennifer Flowers.
Both say their candidate is the one who is all about issues, while the opposition deals in character attacks and trivialities.
News anchor Lester Holt is now preparing questions for the GOP and Democratic nominees at a time when the media and American voters are engaging in their own debate: over the role and obligations of a moderator.
Clinton has spent a lot of time in debate practice, including mock face-offs with surrogates portraying Trump. With approximately half of the debate’s 90 minutes dedicated to the GOP nominee, it will be far more hard than in past debates for Trump to get by with sweeping statements that he is accustomed to making at rallies and in interviews.
After defying the prevailing view since he first nominated for the Republican nominee a year ago, Trump, yet again, is failing to go away.
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Some 57 percent have a negative opinion of Clinton who they see as cerebral, distant or cold. “She would make an extremely good president”.
