Former US secretary of state Hillary Clinton has some advice for US Vice-President Kamala Harris ahead of the Democratic presidential nominee’s coming debate with former president Donald Trump.
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Clinton, the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee, jousted with Trump during three high-stakes debates that year. She recently told The New York Times that Harris should use her background as a prosecutor to make a case against Trump.
“She just should not be baited. She should bait him,” Clinton told the newspaper.
Clinton argued that during a key moment in the final 2016 presidential debate, her needling of Trump on foreign affairs – where she called him a “puppet” of Russian President Vladimir Putin – threw him off balance.
“He can be rattled,” Clinton told the Times. “He doesn’t know how to respond to substantive, direct attacks.”