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Hillary Clinton should accept Donald Trump's drug-test challenge

Oct 16, 2016, 02:27 IST

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton listens during the second presidential debate at Washington University in St. Louis, Sunday, Oct. 9, 2016Saul Loeb/AP

At a rally on Saturday, Donald Trump suggested - with no evidence - that Hillary Clinton may have been on drugs at the second debate, and he proposed that drug tests should be required before the next debate.

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"I'm willing to do it," he said, of mandatory pre-debate drug testing.

Clinton should take him up on the offer.

You may remember Vermont Gov. Howard Dean got in some trouble for suggesting Trump might have a cocaine problem after he sniffled his way through the first debate. Not unreasonably, Trump's supporters complained that this was a baseless accusation.

But now, Trump himself has chosen to put the "Who acts like a drug addict?" issue in play. And - like "Who's gropiest?" - it's a question Trump shouldn't want the campaign to focus around.

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Clinton, after all, is not the candidate in this race whose mood and energy level are wildly erratic. She is not the candidate who goes on 3 a.m. tweetstorms against former beauty queens. She is not the candidate whose accusations against her opponents tend to be projections of her own problems. And she is not the candidate with a case of the sniffles.

I am not saying Trump has a drug problem. He probably just has a defective personality that causes him to behave as though he has a drug problem.

But, as Trump notes, the only way to tell for sure is if the candidates take drug tests.

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