Focus shifts to second Trump-Clinton debate
US voters — and Republican and Democratic party officials — will be closely watching the second presidential debate on Sunday, Oct. 9.
Hurricane Matthew dominated American news late this week, but the squall on voters’ minds wasn’t the one that pounded Florida’s coast, but the approaching second debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.
No matter the metaphor, conventional wisdom seems to agree on one thing: The pressure system that matters to the 2016 US presidential election is the one on Trump to perform better this time.
It won’t just be voters who are closely watching what he does in the town hall format Oct. 9 at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. The Republican Party will be focused on its nominee.
Members of the Grand Old Party expressed frustration after the first debate that Trump didn’t press the attack on Clinton in areas where she is vulnerable: the Clinton Foundation, her hidden emails, the loss of four Americans at the US consulate in Benghazi. Instead, it was the Democratic Party nominee who noticeably got under Trump’s skin, throwing him off his game and sending him into a verbal duel with a former Miss Universe.
