Posted on 09/20/2016 5:39:23 AM PDT by kevcol
The survey itself was created by campaign manager Kellyanne Conway, a veteran pollster herself. It asks for practical input on 14 policy items, from illegal immigration to the $19 trillion federal debt. But it also seeks advice on a broader scope. Should Mr. Trump defend his agenda, attack Mrs. Clinton’s ideas or present an equal balance between the two? Here’s a few more questions from the poll, verbatim:
"Do you think Trump should refer to Hillary as 'Crooked Hillary' on stage?
"Should Trump call out Hillary's reluctance to say 'radical Islamic terrorism' and her underlying fear of being politically incorrect?
"Should Trump criticize the Clinton Foundation's corruption, and urge the Clintons to shut it down and return all foreign donations?
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Why not?
Just keep the pressure on Hillary until the uppers she has been filled with wear off. I expect Hillary to be drugged up by her Dr. Feelgood and look wired. If she crashes, brain freezes or has a head wobble it’s all over
Yes, but only if he then specifically talks about instances of her crookedness such as deleting emails after receiving a subpoena or giving favors to Clinton Foundation donors.
In a debate context he needs to immediately justify his use of the term.
There will be a lot of LIVs watching the debate who have not been paying attention to Trump’s stump speeches and it is an opportunity to shake them up and get them to pay attention to her crookedness.
He does not need to go there and call her Crooked Hillary, I know it would be emotionally satisfying, but smart strategy and tactics must prevail at this stage of the election, IMHO. Many people are coming over to Trump as a result of the over the top hitlery campaign and media attacks on him for such pedestrian issues. The American people see that as unfair. With every over the top dishonest attack by hitlery or the media more and more people migrate to the Trump side. These are not total Trump supporters, they are very fickle, so it would be unwise for Trump to call her crooked Hillary or other names and give those fickle voters a reason to move back to hitlery, after all, the American electorate already knows about her being crooked, one just needs look at polls about her honesty to see that so calling her Crooked Hillary would be seen by many as just piling on. So, if there is not strategic or tactical reason to call her names, then don’t. I believe Trump has it wrapped up in a relatively big way, all that is left to be determined is how big Trump’s victory will be. All he needs do now, is not make any stupid verbal mistakes that would drive all his latest fickle converts right back to hitlery. For those fickle voters being fought over now, issues are not what drives them, it is very personal, for them for more important than a candidates stance on an issue is, how nice a person they think the candidate is, does he say nice things or is he being mean etc...etc... Trump just needs to be smart in these last 50 or so days and he’ll win big, he just needs not give anyone a reason to move back to the other side. If he plays it smart and makes no big mistakes from here on out, I believe he can end up with a 450 to 500 electoral vote landslide victory, if he can keep his mouth and ego in check, and I suspect Kelly Ann Conway and Ivanka are tag teaming him on that issue.
I agree.
Should Trump call his opponent ‘Crooked Hillary’ on stage? Only if he wants to look like a 2nd grader.
Exactly so. He’s going to be playing to a different audience than his rallies, and needs to use a different set of rules. I’m certain he knows that.
Yes to all except the ‘crooked Hillary’ bit.
Hit her on all her criminal activities and failures.
The audience will understand she is crooked without his saying it.
Mrs. Catheter, er, Clinton, I mean.
Should Trump say something about her earpiece if she uses one at the debate?
Donald Trump: Doing the work the MSM, FBI and DOJ won’t do.
Just ask her where the $9 billion went that was to go to Haiti that went thru the Clinton foundation and where did the $6 billion disappear from the State dept when you were in charge. Ask why about 5% of their charity money is spent on maybe some charity (I bet just advertising they spent saying they helped people) while 95% is spent on their expenses.
She will start coughing.
#12 Trump should bring up Bill’s affair’s
Ask her about how much Bill likes teenage girls.
The more serious question is this, It seems in the last ten days Hillary cannot and is incapable of speaking and/or standing at any of her events for very long, 15 to 20 minutes max.
How is she going to navigate the first debate, which I believe runs 90 minutes, without a extended break of some kind or frequent ones????
My guess is that they will pump her up on drugs, which may be quite evident, and she will stick with memorized scripted answers regardless of the questions.
If she collapses or looks like she did when she gave the statement on the bombings it may very well be the end for her. Expectations for her will be very low.
Agree. Stick to verbs not labels. So say “her record is corrupt”, or “she messed up Libya”.
,,,,, you bet ,,,, I’m very nervous ,, the debates may be the game winning event for one of them .
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