2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumMake you predictions: What will be Trump's strategy on Sunday?
My Prediction: He's going to start on-message. That lasts maybe 15 minutes.
Hillary will needle him and he will lose his shit again. That's who he is.
It could look even worse than the first debate, since audience members will be involved.
Hillary just needs to remain gregarious, calm, and on-message.
Adrahil
(13,340 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Poor guy, everybody's always out to get him. Life has just been SO unfair to Trump.
complain jane
(4,302 posts)Trump will do some assortment of word salad, lying, interrupting, blurting out random shit, and decompensating into a blubbering sweaty mess (again).
DemonGoddess
(4,640 posts)an epic failure from the beginning. He doesn't do well in Town Hall format events.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,148 posts)In the townhall format he's going to be asked about taxes, deferments during Vietnam, stiffing contractors etc. Unless he takes a bunch of Xanax, I predict he'll blow.
Adrahil
(13,340 posts)A face plant on his part could seal the deal.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,965 posts)book_worm
(15,951 posts)Third Doctor
(1,574 posts)This may be impossible due to being thin skinned.
FloridaBlues
(4,007 posts)This is a totally different setting he's not use to having people ask him direct questions. Think he will fall flat on his face and try and take Hillary with him.
But she will shine in this format.
titaniumsalute
(4,742 posts)And end like a habenaro. I think as it goes on he will attack the shit out of her.
treestar
(82,383 posts)who asks him a question that needles him. Hillary may not even have to do it.
Grammy23
(5,810 posts)He will conclude he knows what to do, how to beat Hillary. He will re-rack the strategy from last debate and be more annoying, rude and overbearing...if that is possible. It will not help him and he will lose but he will be prepared to make excuses. The lighting was bad. There was an echo in the room. His dinner (KFC) didn't agree with him. Hillary had bad breath. Everybody hates me. I am gonna go out in the garden and eat worms. Boo hoo......
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,816 posts)said so far.
Keep in mind, he is undoubtedly under the distinct impression he won the first one (and that Pence won the VP debate) and he doesn't need to do anything any different.
NoGoodNamesLeft
(2,056 posts)Here is what I predict....at least one of his supporters will get to ask questions and sound batshit crazy. People who don't like Trump will get to ask him questions that will piss him off and he will expose himself to be the disgusting person he is. Clinton will handle herself with grace, class and real answers of substance. And the cherry that will top it all off....probably 80 million or so people will see it.