Both Clinton and Trump will be speaking at the same dinner tonight at which the expectation (from past years) is humorous remarks about both the other candidate and themselves...let's see how that works out.
Trigger warning: It's a Catholic news website.
"...The venue Thursday night just 24 hours after their third and final debate is the annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner in New York, a white-tie gala that every four years becomes a showcase for presidential politics. Tradition dictates that the candidates deliver humorous remarks poking fun at each other and themselves, a jovial custom that seems hard to envision amid such an ugly campaign.
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Four years ago, President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney set aside their differences to trade (mostly) warm jokes. Romney, scanning the well-heeled crowd in the gilded Waldorf-Astoria ballroom, joked that the event’s white-tie attire finally gave him a chance to publicly don what “Ann and I wear around the house.” Obama, meanwhile, used his speech that year to look ahead to an upcoming debate on foreign policy, previewing his argument by saying “Spoiler alert: we got Bin Laden.”
Trump will speak first Thursday night, then Clinton. Neither campaign opted to preview their candidate’s remarks and aides for both declined comment on the evening other than to confirm that each nominee will be there. Dolan has occasionally come under fire from more conservative Catholics for continuing to host the event despite the pro-choice stance of recent Democratic candidates, but has repeatedly said that he prefers to keep lines of conversation open rather than shut them down.
..." [emphasis added]
https://cruxnow.com/...te-ny-cardinal/
Trigger warning: It's a Catholic news website.
"...The venue Thursday night just 24 hours after their third and final debate is the annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner in New York, a white-tie gala that every four years becomes a showcase for presidential politics. Tradition dictates that the candidates deliver humorous remarks poking fun at each other and themselves, a jovial custom that seems hard to envision amid such an ugly campaign.
...
Four years ago, President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney set aside their differences to trade (mostly) warm jokes. Romney, scanning the well-heeled crowd in the gilded Waldorf-Astoria ballroom, joked that the event’s white-tie attire finally gave him a chance to publicly don what “Ann and I wear around the house.” Obama, meanwhile, used his speech that year to look ahead to an upcoming debate on foreign policy, previewing his argument by saying “Spoiler alert: we got Bin Laden.”
Trump will speak first Thursday night, then Clinton. Neither campaign opted to preview their candidate’s remarks and aides for both declined comment on the evening other than to confirm that each nominee will be there. Dolan has occasionally come under fire from more conservative Catholics for continuing to host the event despite the pro-choice stance of recent Democratic candidates, but has repeatedly said that he prefers to keep lines of conversation open rather than shut them down.
..." [emphasis added]
https://cruxnow.com/...te-ny-cardinal/
