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 President Obama’s Kenya-born half-brother Malik will be in the audience in Las Vegas on Wednesday night when Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton square off in their third and final debate. 
 
 Malik — an American citizen who lives in Washington, DC, when he’s not in Kenya — says he will be a guest of Trump, the Republican nominee he supports for president. 
 
 “I’m excited to be at the debate. Trump can make America great again,” Malik told The Post. 
 
 “I look very much forward to meeting and being with Malik,” Trump said. “He gets it far better than his brother.” 
 
 Malik agrees with Trump that the mainstream media is biased, and he dismisses the women who claim Trump kissed or groped them without their permission. 
 
 “I don’t believe them,” Malik said. “Why didn’t they come forward before?” 
 
 Malik also blasted Clinton’s performance as secretary of state for exacerbating the chaos and violence in the Mideast. Malik said ousted Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy had been a good friend. “Check out the situation in Libya now,” he said. 
 
 The Barack H. Obama Foundation — Malik named it after his and the president’s father — would be better able to help the family’s village of Kogelo, Kenya, “if I had gotten the support I should have gotten from my brother,” Malik said. 
 
 Malik, who is three years older than Barack, said he last saw his sibling in August 2015 after the president had visited Kenya. 
 
 “I went to the White House to say hello. I paid a courtesy call,” he said. But it wasn’t a very warm and loving reception. 
 
 “As usual, it was a hands-off kind of thing, very businesslike, very formal,” Malik said. 
 
 Though Trump held a press conference with three Bill Clinton accusers before the second debate in St. Louis, Malik said he is not participating in any such conference in Las Vegas. ||||| As Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton prepare to spar during the third and final presidential debate, Trump has continued his tradition of inviting controversial guests. 
 
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 As an attack on the sitting president, the campaign has invited the half-brother of President Barack Obama, Malik, to attend the debate as Trump's guest, ABC News has confirmed. The news was first reported by the New York Post. 
 
 Malik Obama, a native Kenyan, has been an outspoken critic of Clinton and said that his support is with Trump. 
 
 But Trump must overcome his own vulnerabilities in this debate at a time when at least eight women have accused him of groping or sexually assaulting them. (Trump has vehemently denied all the accusations.) Campaign aides say that the Trump to appear tomorrow will be an aggressive one, poised to attack. 
 
 At a campaign rally in Grand Junction, Colorado, Trump hinted at what was to come. 
 
 "Tomorrow night’s going to be interesting. Now she’s home sleeping and I’m working so -- it’s the way it’s going to be in the White House too. She’d be sleeping, I’d be working,” he said. 
 
 Whereas Trump was criticized for a lack of preparation before the first debate, sources tell ABC News that sessions have been more focused this time around. 
 
 Senior level sources say Sunday was a return to debate prep at Trump’s weekend retreat -- his golf course in Bedminster, New Jersey. Aides describe a rapid-fire question session led in part by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. Christie, sources say, served as Trump’s sparring partner, the one to fire back at Trump what Clinton would potentially say, though there were no mock debates held. 
 
 Throughout all debate prep sessions, Campaign Chief Executive Steve Bannon, Campaign Manager Kellyanne Conway and Deputy Campaign Manager Dave Bossie were at the helm. 
 
 Trump has also had a rotating cast of characters assisting him, from Republican National Committee Chair Reince Priebus to former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, sources say. On Monday, Trump was peppered with rapid-fire questions surrounding national security, with Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions assisting. 
 
 The Republican nominee felt confident about his last performance, sources say. One senior source says the goal for tomorrow night is to reassure the faith of the Republican base. 
 
 But some worry Trump has muddied the waters of his message by touting unsubstantiated claims that the election will be "rigged," proclaiming that the media, the establishment and his accusers are set to steal the election from him. 
 
 He has intensified his calls to be on the lookout for voter fraud, encouraging his crowds to keep a wary eye, especially in urban communities. And, in Wisconsin on Monday, Trump warned that the voters to look out for are the ones who are no longer alive. 
 
 "More than 1.8 million deceased individuals right now are listed as voters. Oh, that's wonderful. Well, if they are going to vote for me, we’ll think about it, right. But I have a feeling they are not going to for me,” he said. 
 
 In an interview with ABC News’ Tom Llamas, Trump also criticized the speaker of the House, Paul Ryan, a member of the party Trump is trying to win, theorizing that Ryan doesn’t want Trump to win the election. 
 
 "Well, maybe not, because maybe he wants to run in four years or maybe he doesn’t know how to win. Maybe just doesn’t know how to win,” Trump said. 
 
 But advisers are confident that Trump will be focused tomorrow night. “He’s fired up,” a senior source said. ||||| LAS VEGAS — Place your bets. 
 
 Donald Trump Donald John TrumpBiden, Sanders lead field in Iowa poll The Memo: Cohen fans flames around Trump Memo Comey used to brief Trump on dossier released: report MORE and Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham ClintonMemo Comey used to brief Trump on dossier released: report Trump will likely win reelection in 2020 Lanny Davis says Nixon had more respect for the Constitution than Trump MORE will take the stage here on Wednesday night for their final presidential, giving the candidates their last best chance to make their case for the White House. 
 
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 The Sin City debate — held at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, just off the strip — seems a fitting send-off for a wild, unpredictable and ugly presidential campaign. 
 
 Here are five things to watch for as the candidates square off beneath the neon lights of the nation’s gambling capital: 
 
 Will they shake hands? 
 
 In a sign of how much disdain the candidates have for one another, Trump and Clinton declined to shake hands as they took the stage at the start of their second debate. 
 
 Instead, they greeted each other with a cold “hello,” then shuffled to within about 3 feet of one another as they turned to face the audience. 
 
 Trump was just minutes removed from a press conference with three women who have accused former President Bill Clinton William (Bill) Jefferson ClintonTrump will likely win reelection in 2020 Utah to impose nation's strictest DUI limit Ocasio-Cortez: By Lindsey Graham's 1999 standard for Clinton, Trump should be impeached MORE of sexual assault or harassment and one whose rapist Hillary Clinton was court-appointed to defend in 1975. Meanwhile, Clinton was preparing to unload on Trump for his obscene remarks about groping women. 
 
 The moment was satirized on “Saturday Night Live” over the weekend, in which Alec Baldwin’s Trump and Kate McKinnon’s Clinton circled each other like jiu jitsu fighters, extending their hands for a shake but recoiling before they touched. 
 
 Advisers to both nominees are surely choreographing the opening moment to ensure their candidate doesn’t come off looking bad. 
 
 That opening moment could be a sign of how nasty things will get. 
 
 Does Trump have any wild cards left? 
 
 It’s almost a given that Trump, the Republican nominee, will unload on his Democratic rival with everything he has. 
 
 Women and independents have been fleeing Trump’s campaign, helping Clinton to open up a comfortable lead in recent national polls. The map of battleground states leans strongly in Clinton’s favor, making her the heavy favorite as the clock ticks down to the finish. 
 
 Trump needs a campaign-altering moment or two if he’s going to change the trajectory of the race with less than three weeks to go before Election Day. 
 
 The GOP nominee’s press conference with Bill Clinton’s accusers at the last debate was an attempt to rattle Hillary Clinton. 
 
 It didn’t work. 
 
 Since then, Trump has thrown everything he has at Clinton, saying she would be jailed if he wins the White House and demanding they both take a drug test before the debate to see if performance-enhancing chemicals are keeping her competitive. 
 
 Trump will have his pick of controversies to exploit on Wednesday night, aided by the WikiLeaks email dumps and the release of documents pertaining to the FBI’s investigation of Clinton’s use of a personal email server while she was secretary of State. 
 
 Does Trump have a new stunt or revelation up his sleeve? Will it matter? 
 
 Does Clinton play it safe or go for the kill? 
 
 Trump is on the ropes. Will Clinton go for the knockout blow on Wednesday night? 
 
 Polls show that Clinton won the second debate, but some of her supporters were frustrated that she was not more aggressive in going after Trump, who limped in amid backlash over his lewd remarks about women and a civil war in the Republican Party over his candidacy. 
 
 Clinton might view the debate as her opportunity to vanquish Trump and lay the groundwork for a governing mandate. 
 
 Trump’s polling weakness has provided the Clinton campaign with an opportunity to expand the map into traditionally red states like Alaska, Georgia, Utah and Arizona. 
 
 Control of the Senate is a toss-up, and if Trump’s free-fall continues, the Republican majority in the House might be in play, too. 
 
 The pressure will be on for Clinton not to just win but also to deliver for down-ballot Democrats as they play for seats that seemed out of reach not long ago. 
 
 That means rolling the dice with an aggressive debate, similar to the one her running mate, Sen. Tim Kaine Timothy (Tim) Michael KaineTim Kaine: Trump was 'fact-checked to his face' by Pelosi, Schumer While G-20 Summit was promising for US- China trade relations, Congress must still push for an exclusion process Overnight Defense — Presented by Raytheon — Border deployment 'peaked' at 5,800 troops | Trump sanctions 17 Saudis over Khashoggi killing | Senators offer bill to press Trump on Saudis | Paul effort to block Bahrain arms sale fails MORE (D-Va.), tried for in the vice presidential debate. 
 
 It could mean hitting Trump where he’s weakest by bringing up his female accusers and crude remarks. But that could move against her by provoking Trump to go nuclear on the Clintons’ personal lives. 
 
 The aggressiveness backfired on Kaine, showing there is risk in such a strategy. 
 
 And the WikiLeaks email dump revealed what insiders have long known: Clinton’s inner circle and campaign team are cautious to a fault. 
 
 They may decide the best course of action is to duck into victory formation and run out the clock with a safe debate performance that seeks to avoid riling Trump. 
 
 Will the moderator make a difference? 
 
 Trump and many conservatives believe the moderators were on Clinton’s side in the first two debates. 
 
 Veteran NBC newsman Lester Holt opened himself up to criticism for failing to ask Clinton about her private email server or foreign donations to her family’s charitable foundation. 
 
 And Trump openly warred with the moderators at the second debate, accusing CNN’s Anderson Cooper and ABC News’s Martha Raddatz of allowing Clinton to speak past her allotted time and lashing out at them for cutting his attacks on Clinton short. 
 
 Those attacks resonated among conservatives, even if Trump ended the last debate with slightly more speaking time than Clinton. 
 
 Republicans are hopeful that Fox News’s Chris Wallace — who has a solid reputation as a nonpartisan journalist — will make Clinton’s life miserable. 
 
 Wallace has said he won’t fact-check the candidates in real time — a practice that has been the focal point of fierce debate within reporting circles — leaving the candidates to pick their spots and make a convincing case for their version of the truth on their own. 
 
 As an anchor at the conservative news outlet, Wallace is more likely to focus on issues that other media outlets are apt to gloss over. 
 
 Expect him to ask Clinton about an email exchange, revealed by WikiLeaks, in which one of her top aides disparaged Catholicism and Christianity. 
 
 The newly released documents pertaining to the investigation of Clinton’s personal server will surely lead to a question about Trump’s allegations of “pay-for-play” at the State Department. 
 
 And the WikiLeaks dump also revealed Clinton’s support for “open borders,” her differing views in public and in private, and a trove of other data points that Fox News has covered with relish. 
 
 Of course, Wallace was no patsy in the GOP primary debates, so Trump can expect the tough treatment will flow both ways. 
 
 What will their closing arguments be? 
 
 This is it. 
 
 The third debate is the last time the candidates will be seen by this many people. The first two debates brought between 65 million and 80 million viewers each. 
 
 For Trump, it’s the best shot for a game-changing moment. For Clinton, it’s an opportunity to seal the deal. 
 
 Trump has signaled that he will make this a “change” election to the end. 
 
 The question voters are struggling over is whether Trump will be a responsible agent of change or a reckless danger who will burn the system to the ground. 
 
 So far, a strong majority of voters view him as the latter, with vast swaths of the electorate saying he is not commander in chief material. 
 
 Trump must convince voters that he can be trusted as a leader. 
 
 Clinton’s closing argument is similarly complicated. 
 
 She is viewed as an untrustworthy and opportunistic career politician — a considerable liability in the year of the outsider. 
 
 Still, recent polls show Clinton’s base is more energized than it once was, helping her to pull away from Trump. 
 
 She will be looking to maintain that momentum by giving undecided voters a reason to vote for her, not just against Trump. ||||| lol Arab trolling ... love this tho A post shared by www.Five45.com (@fivefour5) on Oct 17, 2016 at 6:04pm PDT 
 
 A new billboard in Michigan mocks Donald Trump with a sentence in Arabic that reads: “Donald Trump: He can’t read this, but he is afraid of it.” 
 
 The board was put up last weekend on an interstate near the entrance to the city of Dearborn. The Chicago-based Nuisance Committee Super PAC — started in part by the Cards Against Humanity game creator Max Temkin — funded the $4,850 billboard through election day. 
 
 "We came up with it because we believe that Donald Trump's hateful rhetoric is not based on reality. It's based in fear," Nuisance Committee spokeswoman Melissa Harris told the Detroit Free Press. ||||| The final round for Hillary Clinton vs. Donald Trump will unfold in Las Vegas, a city known for high-stakes wagers. 
 
 The third of three presidential debates will be the last chance for either candidate to deliver a knockout blow in front of a large prime-time audience before the Nov. 8 election. 
 
 Wednesday’s 90-minute debate at UNLV, if it’s anything like the first two, will be a no-holds-barred event that takes the definition of political blood sport to a new level. 
 
 It will give Trump, the Republican nominee, a chance to try turning around his political fortunes, particularly in key battleground states such as Nevada. 
 
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 It will give Clinton, the Democratic nominee, a chance to further solidify her lead in national polls. 
 
 RAUCOUS, WILD EXPECTATIONS 
 
 In the second debate, Trump called Clinton the “devil” and warned that a Trump-led White House could lead to her going to jail. Clinton supporters expect more of the same Wednesday. 
 
 “The first two debates were just warm-ups for what might be the most raucous and wild debate in American history,” said Jake Thompson, an associate professor and debate coach at UNLV. 
 
 Thompson said Trump didn’t appear prepared in the first two debates, and Clinton “faces a very difficult challenge in debating Donald Trump in that he’s an unpredictable candidate to debate against.” 
 
 Trump will enter the stage without the support of some prominent GOP leaders who have distanced themselves from the real estate mogul. 
 
 “He has adopted a scorched-earth strategy,” said Eric Hertzik, chairman of the political science department at the University of Nevada, Reno. “Unrepentant, in your face, willing to take on anybody, and that includes the elected GOP leadership. He’s gone big-time after (House Speaker) Paul Ryan and the Republican establishment. 
 
 “I think he’ll come out guns blazing against Bill Clinton and his infidelity,” Herzik said. “I don’t think that will be very effective.” 
 
 It’s an approach that endears Trump to his base of support but runs the risk of alienating undecided voters in Nevada and across the nation, political observers say. 
 
 “‘I’m going to lock you up’ is an applause line for his base,” Herzik said, referring to Trump’s warning to Clinton that she risks jail if he’s elected. “But for many that watch, this includes Republicans and independents and Democrats, it’s like wait a minute, that’s what third-world countries do.” 
 
 Trump’s supporters are confident the debate can showcase their candidate favorably. 
 
 Michael McDonald, chairman of the Nevada Republican Party, said the debate moderator, Chris Wallace of Fox News, will ensure the debate is fair. 
 
 “There’s a lot at stake here in Nevada,” McDonald said. “I think that both candidates will be at the top of their game. I know for a fact Mr. Trump is preparing.” 
 
 McDonald said Trump can prevail in a debate that’s focused on issues, such as national security and bringing jobs to the U.S. rather than on tabloid-style news. 
 
 “I think when you get down to it, you either have an intelligent debate or you have a National Enquirer debate,” McDonald said, invoking the name of a tabloid known for salacious news stories. 
 
 DEMOCRATS: LOOK FOR SUBSTANCE 
 
 Roberta Lange, chairwoman of the Nevada State Democratic Party, said the debate will help build enthusiasm in advance of early voting, which starts Saturday in Nevada. 
 
 Clinton will be able to talk about her experience, plans for job creation and immigration reform, Lange said. 
 
 “If you want substance,” Lange said, “you should be looking to Hillary Clinton because she will be bringing substance to the floor.” 
 
 The debate’s tentative list of topics includes fitness for president, immigration, the economy, debt and entitlements, the Supreme Court and foreign hot spots. 
 
 With almost three weeks to go before Election Day, it’s difficult to make predictions. 
 
 The election is volatile, and plenty still could happen to turn the tide in either direction, said Barry Jackson, a strategic adviser at Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, a national law firm. Jackson’s career includes stints as a director of strategic initiatives in the White House during the George W. Bush administration and chief of staff for Republican former House Speaker John Boehner. 
 
 “None of us know how this is going to turn out,” said Jackson. 
 
 Jackson plans to participate in a panel discussion in Las Vegas on Thursday after the debate with a colleague at the firm, former U.S. Sen. Mark Begich, D-Alaska. 
 
 “I think both candidates need to come knowing they’re going after the 10, 12, 13 percent” of voters who are undecided, Begich said. 
 
 In Clinton’s case, she needs to show compassion and connect with people, he said. In Trump’s case, the GOP nominee needs to demonstrate substance, he said. 
 
 If anything, the debate will be unconventional. Part of that is because Trump isn’t an elected official with a policy record to scrutinize. That leaves reporters with his personal life, business dealings and comments he has made on “The Howard Stern Show” in the 1990s. 
 
 HOPE AMONG DEBATERS 
 
 The strangeness of the election gives debate professionals hope that future presidential debates — beyond 2016 — will reflect the values of their trade. 
 
 “My earnest hope is that this is not the new normal,” Thompson said. “I think that in this election cycle we have a very odd election cycle.” 
 
 For a university debate team, competitors are expected to show proper decorum, Thompson said. 
 
 “We have rules on my debate team, and those rules call for respecting opponents and treating the institution of debate with respect, and it appears there is a distinct lack of respect between these two candidates,” Thompson said. 
 
 Threats to jail Clinton and assertions that the election is rigged all run counter to the American value of a peaceful transition of power, Thompson said. 
 
 That doesn’t mean, however, that the solution is to have fewer presidential debates. 
 
 “The only way to repudiate claims that the election is rigged or other silliness like that is a strong and ringing endorsement of our democratic traditions,” Thompson said. 
 
 Contact Ben Botkin at bbotkin@reviewjournal.com or 702-387-2904. Find @BenBotkin1 on Twitter. 
 
 Liveblog of the final debate:
– With Roger Clinton apparently unavailable, Donald Trump has decided to invite another troublesome presidential sibling to Wednesday night's final presidential debate in Las Vegas: Malik Obama, President Obama's Trump-supporting half-brother. "I'm excited to be at the debate. Trump can make America great again," Malik, who divides his time between Kenya and Washington, DC, tells Page Six. More on the final presidential debate, which analysts suspect will make next month's Manny Pacquiao-Jesse Vargas fight in Vegas seem gentle by comparison: "Tomorrow night's going to be interesting," Trump told a rally in Colorado Tuesday night. "Now she’s home sleeping and I'm working so—it's the way it’s going to be in the White House, too. She'd be sleeping, I’d be working." The Las Vegas Sun reports that Hillary Clinton's debate guests will include Nevadans Kelly Ortiz, an 11-year-old who told the Democratic National Convention how she fears coming home to find that her parents have been deported, and pro-union Trump International Hotel housekeeper Ofelia Diaz Cardenas. Sources tell ABC that Trump has done a lot more prep for this debate than the first two, spending much of Sunday and Monday working with top aides and advisers including Chris Christie, who was Trump's sparring partner during a rapid-fire question session. With both candidates trying to land knockout blows after two ugly debates, analysts are not expecting the evening to be dominated by dry discussions of fiscal policy. "The first two debates were just warm-ups for what might be the most raucous and wild debate in American history," Jake Thompson, an associate professor and debate coach at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where the 90-minute debate will be held, tells the Las Vegas Review-Journal. The Hill lists five things to watch out for in the debate, including whether the candidates shake hands, whether Trump has any wild cards left to play—and whether Clinton will play it safe or "go for the kill." The New York Times looks at how the debate is also a huge night for Fox News in the wake of a troubled year. Fox News Sunday anchor Chris Wallace will become the first journalist from his network to moderate a general-election debate. The Los Angeles Times reports that before the debate, the Culinary Union plans to put a "wall" of at least five taco trucks outside the Trump International Hotel Las Vegas.