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Adrahil

(13,340 posts)
Wed Oct 5, 2016, 08:36 PM Oct 2016

Make 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.

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Make you predictions: What will be Trump's strategy on Sunday? (Original Post) Adrahil Oct 2016 OP
None Cakes488 Oct 2016 #1
That's always a high-probability answer. NT Adrahil Oct 2016 #15
Same strategery as last time: blame the mic, blame the moderator, it's rigged pinboy3niner Oct 2016 #2
Agree with you. I have no worries about Hillary's performance at all. complain jane Oct 2016 #3
I think he'll be DemonGoddess Oct 2016 #4
I think so too TexasBushwhacker Oct 2016 #12
I hope so. Adrahil Oct 2016 #16
He'll try to fix the last debate & fight the last war. Hillary will have new strategy & new weapons. Bernardo de La Paz Oct 2016 #5
yet an audience of undecideds are his natural base--idiots. book_worm Oct 2016 #6
He'll try to stay on message and keep his cool. Third Doctor Oct 2016 #7
Stay on message for few mins than goes after Hillary FloridaBlues Oct 2016 #9
I think he'll start cool as a cucumber titaniumsalute Oct 2016 #8
it might even be one of the audience treestar Oct 2016 #10
Trump will consult with his favorite expert on all things political....himself. Grammy23 Oct 2016 #11
He'll simply double down on everything he's PoindexterOglethorpe Oct 2016 #13
This won't be one of his rallies where he can kick people who hate him out... NoGoodNamesLeft Oct 2016 #14
He'll do poorly and hopefully blame the audience Osakagreg Oct 2016 #17

pinboy3niner

(53,339 posts)
2. Same strategery as last time: blame the mic, blame the moderator, it's rigged
Wed Oct 5, 2016, 08:46 PM
Oct 2016

Poor guy, everybody's always out to get him. Life has just been SO unfair to Trump.

complain jane

(4,302 posts)
3. Agree with you. I have no worries about Hillary's performance at all.
Wed Oct 5, 2016, 08:48 PM
Oct 2016

Trump will do some assortment of word salad, lying, interrupting, blurting out random shit, and decompensating into a blubbering sweaty mess (again).

TexasBushwhacker

(20,148 posts)
12. I think so too
Wed Oct 5, 2016, 09:34 PM
Oct 2016

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.

FloridaBlues

(4,007 posts)
9. Stay on message for few mins than goes after Hillary
Wed Oct 5, 2016, 09:07 PM
Oct 2016

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)
8. I think he'll start cool as a cucumber
Wed Oct 5, 2016, 09:07 PM
Oct 2016

And end like a habenaro. I think as it goes on he will attack the shit out of her.

treestar

(82,383 posts)
10. it might even be one of the audience
Wed Oct 5, 2016, 09:08 PM
Oct 2016

who asks him a question that needles him. Hillary may not even have to do it.

Grammy23

(5,810 posts)
11. Trump will consult with his favorite expert on all things political....himself.
Wed Oct 5, 2016, 09:12 PM
Oct 2016

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)
13. He'll simply double down on everything he's
Wed Oct 5, 2016, 09:44 PM
Oct 2016

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)
14. This won't be one of his rallies where he can kick people who hate him out...
Wed Oct 5, 2016, 09:55 PM
Oct 2016

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.

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