Which Trump Will Show Up at the Debate?
The only thing that’s certain about the first presidential debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton on Monday night is that a lot of people will be watching—perhaps more than any debate since 1980.
Beyond that, it’s anyone’s guess.
Rarely if ever in the modern era has a general-election debate featured such a stark contrast in candidates. The first woman to win a major party nomination is facing a celebrity businessman who, if elected, would be the first person to assume the presidency without having previously held elective office in 64 years.
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Trump’s debate strategy: Let Clinton talk
“Let Trump be Trump” was the mantra that guided Donald Trump’s successful drive to the Republican presidential nomination. But his team is taking a “Let Hillary be Hillary” approach to the first presidential debate.
Fox News has learned that the view inside Trump Tower is that the real estate mogul stands to gain by standing back and letting Hillary Clinton talk. And talk.
Whether it’s a wise strategy to give the studied Democratic nominee even more time to show off her policy chops remains to be seen. But the GOP nominee is being advised to let Clinton speak as much as possible on the debate stage, with the thinking being that she could lose viewers the more she does.
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