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Who's coaching Harris and Trump on foreign policy for Tuesday's debate?

Sep 08, 2024 View Original Article
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    50% Medium Conservative

  • Reliability

    55% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    50% Medium Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    -28% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : Since Trump left the White House, Grenell has acted as an envoy for him abroad, meeting far-right leaders in foreign capitals.
58% : "I do, I have meetings on it," Trump said recently when asked about his preparations.
57% : Trump speaks about national security with a range of former officials who served in his administration and who are deemed loyal, as well as several senators.
46% : Trump has never articulated an overarching foreign policy, but he has one core belief that he has expressed for decades.
42% : Kellogg speaks to the former president regularly and has been advising Trump as he prepares for Tuesday's debate, according to a source with knowledge of the matter.
37% : Trump has said that he has been prepping for the debate his whole life and questioned the need for elaborate study in advance.
37% : "Trump does not believe it's a team sport.
34% : As former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris head into the home stretch of debate preparation, who is coaching them on how to address the Israel-Hamas war, Russia's onslaught against Ukraine and China's efforts to overtake the U.S. as the world's superpower?There are stark differences between Harris and Trump in their foreign policy positions and how they express them.
34% : Patel has embraced the former president's calls to purge intelligence officials considered disloyal and promoted conspiracies hat the 2020 election was "stolen" and that a "deep state" inside the government is plotting against Trump.
32% : Trump thinks other nations are taking advantage of the U.S. -- that too many allies are freeloading off American military might and not spending enough on their own armed forces.
30% : The former president's campaign has no process for formulating foreign or domestic policy and Trump doesn't have a designated foreign policy adviser.
28% : Harris will likely criticize Trump for his praise of autocrats like Vladimir Putin and his skepticism about America's longstanding network of alliances.
27% : But multiple sources say Trump does not appear to rely on Vance for foreign policy advice.
22% : Trump's not reading any paper; I'm not going to read any paper.
21% : The Republican lawmakers getting calls from Trump include Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas and Sen. Bill Hagerty of Tennessee.
20% : Kellogg, who has defended the infamous phone call in which Trump asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy about investigating Joe Biden's son Hunter, is co-author of a proposal to end the war in Ukraine.
19% : In the mock debates Harris is holding in Pittsburgh as rehearsal for Tuesday, the adviser playing Trump's role is underlining the differences between the candidates by allegedly dressing as Trump, right down to the big blue suit and long tie.
19% : According to multiple sources associated with each candidate and their parties, here is a rough sketch of who is advising Trump and Harris on foreign policy for the debate -- and for their potential presidencies:As always with Trump, expect his approach to be fluid and improvised, according to multiple sources and his own comments.
12% : Bolton, who advised Trump from 2018 to 2019, said that Trump has no coherent foreign policy views and that his "decisions are ad-hoc, anecdotal, transactional."
6% : Philippe Reines, who worked as an adviser to Hillary Clinton's unsuccessful 2016 campaign against Trump, is playing the role of Trump in Harris' mock debate sessions, just as he did in Clinton's White House bid.
5% : If Trump is elected, Miller and Trump have vowed to launch a mass deportation of millions of undocumented immigrants.

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