Hillary Clinton says Kamala Harris should ‘bait’ Trump during debate: ‘He can be rattled’
The Republican US presidential nominee ‘doesn’t know how to respond to substantive, direct attacks’, his former Democratic rival says
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.
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.”
“And I think that from her prosecutorial background, I think that’s what she will be equipped to do,” Clinton added.
