Opinion: Trump is a highly tactical person. That characteristic, more than anything else, makes the question of what will happen in this week’s debate anyone’s guess
It’s the eve of the first presidential debate of this unprecedentedly cacophonous election season. The race was shaken up just last week by the death of liberal Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. And today, there’s a new concussion.lands the holy grail of journalism in the Trump era: a history of this larcenous President’s personal income taxes.
In recent US political history, debate moments that affect a campaign are highly unusual and generally aren’t recognised at the time. Only later, for example, in 1960, did it become apparent that then vice-president Richard Nixon looked swarthy and grim next to a charming and shiny John F. Kennedy in the first modern political debates, broadcast on the newfangled thing called television.
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