Hillary Clinton sought the help of a local debate team to help her take down Donald Trump, telling voters that she needs a new strategy to combat the Republican front-runner’s attacks and campaign promises.
“I asked them for some advice because they’re clearly really good at public speaking they know how to make a really effective argument,” Clinton said of a collegiate forensics debate team attending her rally in Bowling Green, Kentucky on Monday. “So I said ‘you all have to help me, because I need new material, I need help.”
“I’m having so much fun up here … that I got to remember what I’m supposed to say to encourage you all to come out and vote and tell you what’s really at stake in this election,” Clinton continued, laughing. “But I think you kind of know or you wouldn’t be here. There is so much at stake.”
Although the Kentucky primary is on Tuesday, Clinton sent the majority of her speech focusing her the general election battle with Trump.
“This is where I might have these young women prepare me, let’s just imagine I am on a debate stage with Donald Trump. Now personally I am really looking forward to that. So let’s suppose here is the question, ‘so what is you plan to create jobs?’ His answer is ‘I am going to create them, they are going to be great am going to do it. But I am telling you what it is I am going to do,” Clinton said, imitating Trump’s voice.
Clinton added that she would be much more detailed in laying out policy proposals than Trump and would get into specifics on the debate stage. She said, “I am going to say, ‘Here is what we are going to do and here is what we are going to do, here is how we are going to change the tax code, here is how we are going to incentivize people to do it.”
It took Clinton month to settle on a consistent line of attack against Bernie Sanders in the beginning of the primary season, and now as she goes through the same process with Trump her campaign has tested out various slogans. On the campaign trail Clinton will often repeats that “love trumps hate” or that Trump does not have the ability to unite his own party. More recently the Clinton campaign has argued his proposals lack substance.
“Now some people might say well, all anybody wants to hear is just ‘I am going to do it. I am not telling you how.’ I don’t believe that,” Clinton said, continuing her impersonation of Trump. “Maybe in the preliminaries like the Republican primary that is all they want to he. But Americans take their vote for president seriously. They might be looking at that TV screen saying ‘He still doesn’t have anything to tell us?’ Wait a minute.”
