Don’t call tonight’s Town Hall a debate. It will be more like Night of the Long Knives. A TownHall Putsch, so to speak.

Pour some suds and settle in for the Clinton-Trump slice-and-dice.

Hillary Clinton drew first blood with this tweet she made after the infamous Trump tape surfaced on Friday:

This is horrific. We cannot allow this man to become president. https://t.co/RwhW7yeFI2

— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) October 7, 2016

But by Saturday, her detractors were slashing back. Juanita Broaddrick, who alleged in 1999 that Bill Clinton had raped her, tweeted this:

Hillary calls Trump's remarks "horrific" while she lives with and protects a "Rapist". Her actions are horrific.

— Juanita Broaddrick (@atensnut) October 8, 2016

That’ll leave a mark.

And naturally, Trump just couldn’t help himself, and retweeted Broaddrick’s post. Got your counterpunch, right here!

Trump troops took over a Clinton campaign rally in Milwaukee, WI, on Saturday, where Bill Clinton was speaking. They had their knives out, too.

https://youtu.be/bJW4tO_JkkA

Hoo boy.

Don’t expect any highbrow Lincoln-Douglas debate tonight. A Clinton campaign official has already indicated that she plans to attack Trump on the bombshell video. And since Trump never lets any criticism slide, he’ll shred Hillary Clinton over her trashing of Bill’s female accusers.

It will be an epic face-off in St. Louis.

If Trump wants to win this debate, he needs to attack with a rapier, not just wildly swing his broadsword, hoping to make contact. Yes, he should counter her jabs about the lewd audio tape. But he needs to hit her again, and again, on her influence-peddling, the Clinton Foundation racket, and of course her home-brew server. And he should absolutely expose her hypocritical character on display in the WikiLeaks transcripts of her Goldman-Sachs speeches, in which Hillary rhapsodized over what a great world it would be if there were no borders.

But this is an election year when anything can happen, nothing is as it seems, and all bets are off. So grab some beer and popcorn, and take in Trump and Hillary squaring off in 2016’s Night of the Long Knives.