Posted on 09/24/2016 7:50:06 PM PDT by MichelleWSC3
NEW YORK (AP) -- Since he entered the presidential race, it's been Donald Trump's style to break with convention. It's no different when it comes to debate prep.
The New York billionaire has skipped practicing a full debate as he gets ready for his first on-stage meeting with Hillary Clinton. While he has studied policy ideas and practiced answering questions he may face Monday night, experts who have been through the process call his decision to skip time-intensive mock debates a mistake.
"I think he's putting himself at an incredible disadvantage," said Brett O'Donnell, a Republican strategist and veteran debate coach who compared Trump's decision to a football team failing to scrimmage.
Trump's Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, has run through full-length mock debates against a stand-in for Trump during her preparation sessions. For good reason, O'Donnell said. Gaming out every potential permutation of what might happen in the 90-minute showdown helps a candidate calculate how to respond.
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Can someone help me.....but doesn’t it seem that the negativity crowd that used to block entrances and parade and obstruct decent folks to go to a Trump Rally are in diminishing mode. OR is the Main Stream Media not reporting. I haven’t seen much hate filled people outside causing havoc like 2 months ago......
Also, this is probably going to be a test of how adaptable Donald is, and last minute cramming doesn’t do a lot here. Hillary will come from somewhere unpredictable (by man) in a vast left field, and understanding what he believes from the heart will do a whole lot more here than anything else will.
Trump’s instincts have been good thus far.
Honestly, I don’t know. The kind of people who can be bothered to show up in person and gripe about someone they disagree with tends to get tired easily. A lot of protesters are paid professionals, and they follow the money.
Oh get real chicken little. Of course he will lose the debate. It’s predetermined and the press already has the stories written. They just need to add in a few specific things from Monday night, and then we will read the stories of how Hillary showed her health, poise, and long experience.
Trump was shallow, mean, petty, and doesn’t understand the issues.
Oh, and of course there will be a “gaffe”.
lol
Trump seems like a very capable at verbal sparring and can come up with a lot of replies on the fly. I also think it is possible to over prepare for something like this and try every permutation in advance and then be lost in them when the real event happens. His instincts have served him well so far.
Debates are remembered for one or two memorable lines. Ford saying that Eastern Europe was not dominated by the Russians, Reagan saying he would not hold Mondale’s youth and inexperience against him etcetc. Somehow if Trump can get the American people to understand that Hillary is inherently dishonest, shamelessly corrupt, impaired and sloppy he will win. For instance if the question of personal wealth comes up Trump might ask “Just wonder how my opponent who claimed to be “dead broke” in 2001 came to be worth over $31 million dollars after spending 10 years in public service. Just how did she do that.?”
Exactly. He knows who he is and he isn’t pandering.
Exactly. He knows who he is and he isn’t pandering.
Donald has been anywhere from fair to outstanding on basic principles. Even his mistakes seem to be made for a good reason, and his approach is refined as he goes. A flub or two, a less than optimal reply to a few questions, is not going to kill his whole candidacy.
Another concern troll trying to tell Trump how to be Trump. No worry, just let Trump be Trump, that is who we want, not some rehearsed asshole like Rubio reciting the same lines over and over.
And he knows what he is embracing, which in turn is making him who he is.
Donald, like fine wine, is improving with age. Hillary is turning into a bottle of vinegar.
Propaganda.
So, that’s what Hillary’s been up to, not just hiding like everyone thought, or recuperating from her “pneumonia.”
She’ll undoubtedly try to get under his skin, but he needs to shrug that off, or turn any attack on him back on her, and then counterpunch twice as hard.
Clinton has a history of really getting angry when challenged, so Trump has to challenge her on everything, from her do-nothing senate record to the disasters she caused in the Middle East, and North Africa, to her lying, her emails. Essentially, he has to keep her on the defensive, and attempt to provoke her into an angry outburst.
No worries. Trump has fought off 17 opponents, the media, the democrats, the republicans, $100 million in negative ads and Hollywood. He has worked tirelessly for the past 15 months, spent millions of his own money and travels to at least two states a day. Do you really think he’s going to let hillary win this? He has a great coach in rudy and newt. I think he’s going to kick her a$$.
“Trump’s instincts have been good thus far.”
—This is what worries me the most. Yes, Trump does have good instincts but he has a habit of going off the cuff and saying things, while true, bites him in the a$$ (especially when he’s attacked). I just feel that if he had had these mock debates they might have been able to help him formulate rebuttals to keep him from making needless mistakes. But I’m not going to argue over it or belabor the my point.
Not only that! Trump’s debates were all primetime events (everyone was watching), whereas Hillary’s were during major sporting events or on off nights (barely anyone was watching).
Donald is one of those one-of-a-kind, broke-the-mold people. I call it a divine blessing upon him... just like he got at that black church in Pennsylvania.
God will make even Donald’s mistakes work to the good... just you watch.
For the past 15 months, Trump has weathered everything that his 17 opponents could throw at him and he has undergone the most vicious media assault on a presidential candidate in history.
Through it all, he puts himself in front of the media constantly and has held more press conferences and town halls than the past five presidents combined.
It is Crooked Hillary that needs to be worried. She's been hiding in the bunker, surrounding herself with yes-men. She does not have the seasoning and experience in hostile situations that Donald Trump has.
Trump is going to do just fine.
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