Posted on 09/25/2016 6:39:20 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Entire Title: "Hillary Clinton to use larger podium than Donald Trump at first debate to make up for height disadvantage: report"
Hillary Clinton says that we’re “stronger together,” but even she can’t deny Donald Trump is taller.
The Democratic nominee, who is 5-foot-4, has apparently enlisted the help of a raised podium for the first presidential debate against Donald Trump, who is 6-foot-3, Monday night, photos of the two podiums show.
According to WABC’s Rita Cosby, one of the two podiums inside the debate hall at Hofstra University, in Hempstead, N.Y., is larger than the other.
It is believed that the larger one was built at Clinton’s request to make her appear taller than she is.
“Clinton is 5'4" and Trump 6'2" and her team wanted the podium modified or a box added so she won't look short next to Trump,” Cosby said in an email.
“One is clearly larger … than the other,” Cosby said.
Photos taken by Cosby appear to show two podiums of two different sizes.
The Clinton campaign did not immediately respond to questions about whether the Democratic nominee would be using a raised podium at Monday night’s debate. The Commission on Presidential Debates, which organizes the debates, did not respond to questions either.
However, multiple outlets had reported last week that the Clinton campaign had asked the CPD if the Democratic nominee could use a raised podium to avoid appearing 10 inches shorter than Trump.
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Give her a Spanx so she doesn’t appear fatter.
Evidently she thinks her supporters are stupid enough to actually think she’s really 6 foot 2.
POAP... Pig on a pedestal
Well, they’re Hillary supporters so....
Yeah.
Nothing will help Hillaryous Rotten Criminal. It’s over.
Wouldn’t a larger podium make her appear smaller?
To keep her steady.
She will have farther to fall from her elevated platform. Hope she does not hit her head again. And not really, really hard. and hopr it does not happen under sniper fire.
Bunk. They should get equal podiums. Anything else is deliberately giving an advantage to one side or the other.
No she won’t look taller. The larger podium will make her look squatter and stouter than she already is.
I think it's the other way around.
It better be wider too.
How many will it take to help her up the step?
So the larger lectern dwarfs her and makes her look even smaller. Am I missing something here? The podium is what they stand on. They stand at the lectern.
Will she be taller than Mr. Trump at just even with his height?
>Wouldn’t a larger podium make her appear smaller?
Yep. More likely the larger one is for Trump.
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