5 Things Trump Must Do in Debate to Crush Hillary
By Dick Morris
Newsmax.com
Donald Trump (MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images)
As we point out in our new
bestseller "Armageddon:
How Trump Can Beat Hillary," there is a
fundamental flaw in Hillary Clinton's campaign
approach and the debate coming up on Monday should
make it evident.
Hillary and the Democrats have based their campaign
on demonizing Donald Trump, calling him dangerous,
unpredictable, racist, Islamophobic, demagogic,
sexist, lacking in temperament and judgement,
bombastic, jingoistic and a litany of other names.
His supporters belong in a "basket of deplorables."
It is a campaign conducted by a speechwriter with a
well-thumbed thesaurus.
Against Barry Goldwater in 1964 and George McGovern
in 1972, such a strategy of name calling could and
did work. But now we have televised debates. (There
were none in '64 or '72).
We will meet Donald and will see that he is none of
the things Hillary says he is. Before he takes a
single stand on a single issue, it will be evident
that he is not the diabolic candidate Hillary
paints.
In some cases, the road is coming up to meet him.
The problems he has focused on have become so
serious that his formerly extreme rhetoric now makes
sense. How can we look at the mayhem caused by an
Afghani immigrant without thinking about stopping
more from coming in?
In other cases, his rhetoric has toned down. He
still wants to build a wall, just like Bill Clinton
did in 1993. Bill stretched one 300 miles along the
California/Mexico border — and it still stands.
Trump's would be longer. But he no longer calls
Mexicans drug dealers and criminals and has
abandoned the idea of a Gestapo-style roundup of
illegals for deportation.
All Trump needs to do is to lay out positive
proposals and avoid ratifying Hillary's accusations.
Donald's constructive programs on taxes, national
security, immigration, the economy, and child care
form a basis for projecting a national image that
will simply sweep aside Hillary's campaign.
For her part, Hillary has to look healthy and
energetic. A modulated, laid-back performance will
destroy her claim that she is well enough to be
president.
Tactically, we would suggest (as we do in our book):
He should attack Bill's record on bank regulation,
making clear that his decision to deregulate banks
as he left office opened the door to the '07 and '08
crash.
He should challenge her to close down the Clinton
Foundation so there can be no pay-for-play deals
involving a president.
In his outreach to African-Americans, he has
stressed school choice — a chapter in our book. He
can outflank Hillary on education and make strong
inroads into the ranks of black women.
He needs to show a balanced approach to the recent
police shootings and make clear that he will be sure
that police violence against unarmed minority boys
has to end.
Trump should hang Obamacare around Hillary's neck.
The issue has been almost absent from the campaign
so far and it represents Obama's and Hillary's
biggest failure on the national stage.
Everything is trending Trump's way as he enters the
debate. A strong performance will catapult Trump
ahead of Hillary, perhaps to stay.
Note: Dick Morris' "Armageddon" is already 8
weeks on the New York Times bestseller list — and
the "must read" book of the election. Morris reveals
Hillary's darkest secrets the media won't report — More
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