Hillary Clinton gives Kamala Harris advice for her big showdown with Trump
Hillary Clinton has offered some debate tips for Vice President Kamala Harris before she faces off against Donald Trump.
While Trump’s campaign adviser Jason Miller suggested on Monday that preparing to debate Trump is like “trying to prepare for Floyd Mayweather or Muhammad Ali,” Clinton had some specific ideas on how Harris could spar with the former president.
As the Democratic presidential nominee in 2016, Clinton faced Trump three times on the debate stage. Despite losing to him in the general election, she has clung on to her debates, which she says, were a decisive victory.
“The consensus was that I won all three debates and that I was well prepared,” Clinton told the New York Times in a Tuesday interview.
Clinton advised the current Democratic presidential nominee not to shy away from her prosecutorial experience. “She just should not be baited. She should bait him. He can be rattled. He doesn’t know how to respond to substantive, direct attacks,” Clinton said.
“I mean, when I said he was a Russian puppet and he just sputtered onstage, I think that’s an example of how you get out a fact about him that really unnerves him.”
Clinton added: “He doesn’t answer the questions. He doesn’t come with any specifics.”
Clinton also suggested that Harris attack Trump’s “really terrible record” as president as well as what his next term will look like, including Project 2025, the conservative blueprint for a second Trump term spearheaded by the Heritage Foundation.
Trump has tried to disavow himself from the 900-page plan, claiming that he knows “nothing” about it or “who is behind it” — despite its authors coming from his former administration. His own running mate JD Vance wrote a glowing introduction for the Heritage