Washington – The two presidential campaigns disagree on whether moderators should fact-check the candidates’ comments during debates.
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Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager, Robby Mook, says debate moderators should correct any false statements by Trump so Clinton can use her time discussing her plans instead of correcting her rival. But Donald Trump’s campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, says fact-checking Trump is tantamount to helping Clinton.
Mook told NBC’s “Today” show on Monday that the media need to hold Trump accountable and not use low expectations to judge his performance. “We don’t want Donald Trump’s lies, distortions to be a distraction,” he said.
Conway told MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” the Clinton campaign is trying to “game the ref” — a reference to debate moderators — by pushing them to correct Trump’s statements.
Trump’s campaign manager says she’s confident he’ll do well in his debate with Hillary Clinton, saying the “natural connective tissue he has with people” will be on display.
Kellyanne Conway also says she expects Trump to say more about his plan to defeat the Islamic State group. She says “he’ll be happy to offer specifics without telling the enemy what we’re going to do.”
Conway said “people are just amazed” that Clinton outlined her strategy against IS on her website.
Asked about Trump’s preparations for the primetime television faceoff, Conway says he’s studied the issues and “I can see that this man is ready for tonight.”
The plan to defeat Isis is so easy and simple. Only naive Hilary believes that we should fight Al-Nusra, Isis and Assad all at once and only “moderate rebels” will emerge.
The Trump plan is simple. Team up with Putin and empower Assad. But wat Assad is evil. Look what he did to the UN convoy delivering aid last week. Yes when Assad fights a war he fights dirty. And he is no saint. But during peaceful times like pre 2011 there were no homeless refugees and his people by enlarge lived happy lives. It was not perfect but on the bigger scheme of things Syria was a pretty good place to live. Thus we need to defeat Isis and put a dictator in who can keep order like Al-sisi did in Egypt.
Once Isis is out of Syria it will loose its glamour. People only join up with winners not losers. ISIS will have a very tough time with recruitment once it looses. And Isis will remain a small nimble non relevant group.
Its really simple for those with common sense.