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Marina Fang
Associate Politics Editor, The Huffington Post
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Thursday held a rare town
hall event in New Hampshire that looked a lot like a trial run for Sunday’s
second presidential debate with Democrat Hillary Clinton.
But the softball questions selected from a Trump-friendly crowd offered
little practice for a nominee who desperately needs to overcome his widely
panned performance in last week’s debate.
Trump rarely appears before small audiences, preferring raucous campaign
rallies in large arenas, so Thursday’s town hall provided him an
opportunity to practice speaking in a more intimate setting and to prepare
for Sunday’s town hall-style event with Clinton.
The GOP nominee insisted that Thursday’s gathering, moderated by
conservative radio host Howie Carr, a Trump supporter, “has nothing to do
with Sunday.”
MIKE SEGAR / REUTERS
He was correct.
The event lasted just over 30 minutes, and the questions, selected from an
invitation-only crowd, were complete softballs, bearing little resemblance
to what he will encounter from moderators Anderson Cooper and Martha Raddatz
, and audience members during Sunday’s debate.
Sunday’s matchup is crucial for Trump. He had been closing in on Clinton
until his poor performance in last week’s debate, which appears to have
cost him dearly in polls. He now trails Clinton by more than 6 percentage
points, according to HuffPost Pollster, which aggregates all available
public polls.
Here is a sampling of questions put to Trump in New Hampshire:
“What would you say to convince Hispanics who are deceived by Obama,
Clinton and the biased media to vote for you?”
“How will you win over the conservative holdouts not on the bandwagon?”
“What advice would you give to young Americans looking to achieve the
American Dream?”
“What is your favorite childhood memory? Go Donald.”
Trump fielded a question on how he would fix the VA health care system from
Al Baldasaro, his adviser on veterans issues. Baldasaro famously called for
Clinton to be “killed by firing squad.”
The final question to Trump asked which team would win the World Series.
“Of course it’s Boston,” Trump said, pandering to the hometown crowd.
Based on his rambling answers, Trump did not appear to use a two-minute
countdown clock that would have helped him prepare for Sunday’s town hall
format.
If he wanted to lower expectations for Sunday, he succeeded.
As usual, he took a dig at Clinton’s preparation by drawing attention to
her health.
“You really think Hillary Clinton is debate prepping? Hillary Clinton is
resting,” he said.
He also complained about the first debate, insisting he received more
difficult questions than Clinton.
“She gets easy ones,” he said. “By the way, have you noticed the
difference? I’m getting boom, boom, boom. With her, ‘What would you do to
fix the economy?’ Of course, that’s actually a much tougher question than
you would understand, and she doesn’t have a clue, but you see the
questions I was getting.”
Editor’s note: Donald Trump regularly incites political violence and is a
serial liar, rampant xenophobe, racist, misogynist and birther who has
repeatedly pledged to ban all Muslims — 1.6 billion members of an entire
religion — from entering the U.S. |
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