During an interview, Chris Matthews on MSNBC’s Hardball asked McAuliffe how he’d respond if the President tried to intimidate him during a debate by hovering over him, as Trump famously did in a debate with McAuliffe’s friend, Hillary Clinton.
“You’d have to pick him up off the floor,” McAuliffe said.
“You’d have to pick him off the floor … You punch me, I’d punch you back twice as hard.” @TerryMcAuliffe on if Trump were to try and intimidate him. #Hardball pic.twitter.com/pWUhgW1ZfT
— Hardball (@hardball) January 12, 2018
Sounds like a visit from the Secret Service to me! If a Republican Governor had said that about Obama, they would no longer be governor.
“Hardball” host Chris Matthews predicted his warning to Trump would “go viral.”
Here’s a transcript of the exchange:
MATTHEWS: “Back to Trump, what he does is he seems to have an ability to intimidate his opponents.
