Trump and Harris will hold long-awaited debate on Tuesday
WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris will hold a highly anticipated and potentially consequential debate in Philadelphia on Tuesday night — just over two months after Joe President Biden’s disastrous debate performance fueled his displeasure. exit from the game.
The debate, which will be hosted by ABC News and is scheduled for 9 p.m. ET, will be the first face-to-face meeting between Trump and Harris. according to to Harris. Viewers can live stream the debate ABC.com or on ABC News Live, Disney+ and Hulu platforms. The debate will also be simulcast live on C-SPAN.
The event is the only televised exchange between candidates scheduled before Election Day in November, though early voting begins on Sept. 16 in the battleground state of Pennsylvania and later this month in four other states.
“We will be ready”
Trump’s attorneys said Monday that the former president plans to challenge Harris’ views that have changed over the years, including on fracking and immigration.
“We’ll be ready tomorrow and President Trump will be ready. The question is whether Kamala Harris is ready because she’s going to have a lot to defend,” Trump campaign senior adviser Jason Miller said at the The call, organized by the Republican National Committee, said Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz, a former Hawaii Rep., also participated.
“You can’t prepare for President Trump. There’s just no way to do that,” Miller later added.
Trump will also seek to tie Harris to all decisions made by the Biden administration. Gaetz called her the “co-president” and claimed during the call that Harris was “in charge of the entire government.”
Republicans used the claim to blame Harris for the 2021 U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, which resulted in the deaths of 13 service members.
The Republican-led House Foreign Affairs Committee released a 353-page report Report The Biden-Harris administration was placed squarely on Monday for the deadly end to the U.S.’s two-year war in Afghanistan. Harris’ surname was mentioned 285 times in the report.
“Kamala Harris is unfit to serve as our president and commander in chief,” Gabbard said by phone.
Retired U.S. military leaders issued a letter defending Harris’ ability to lead the country and accusing Trump of his “chaotic approach” to negotiations with the Taliban before leaving office.
“He has repeatedly failed to accept responsibility for his role in putting service members in harm’s way,” the former generals said. wrote Represents veterans advocacy organization National Security Leaders of America.
On August 26, the third anniversary of the death of 13 service members, Trump’s campaign staffers confronted Arlington National Cemetery officials, drawing attention to Trump’s withdrawal from Afghanistan. The event was first report Reported by NPR.
Trump denies his staff pushed cemetery officials aside to take photos in off-limits area, but U.S. Army Confirmed event.
“Going to No. 4 Harris Bats”
The vice president spent the weekend preparing for the debate at a hotel in Pittsburgh before traveling across swing states on Monday for the next night’s prime-time event.
The Harris campaign kicked off the week by releasing a advertise The meeting on Monday was attended by several former Trump administration officials, including former Vice President Mike Pence and former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley, who have spoken out against Trump’s re-election as president.
Democratic National Committee Flying banner The skies above Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia on Monday as the division-leading Phillies host the Tampa Bay Rays. The banner read: “Don’t strike out with Trump, go bat 4 Harris.”
About 50 days into the campaign and just 56 days before the election, Harris released her policy platform the day before the debate. The plan’s four pillars include a commitment to lower taxes on the middle class, build affordable housing, protect reproductive freedoms and civil rights, secure the border and address gun violence, and “stand up to dictators” and support veterans.
Harris also vowed to uphold the ethics rules of the U.S. Supreme Court and “ensure that no former president enjoys immunity for crimes committed while in the White House” – referring to the high court’s July ruling ruling The bill grants the former president immunity for core official conduct and presumptive immunity for “peripheral” duties, but not immunity for personal conduct.
The Trump campaign accused Harris of “dishonesty” in her platform in a campaign email sent on Monday. “We know the results of her policies: chaos, destruction and destruction.”
Trump and the Republican Party released a platform in July centered on 20 core commitments, including “sealing the border,” “implementing the largest deportations in U.S. history,” and “ending inflation.”
Asked by reporters Saturday in the Pittsburgh Avenue Market District if she was ready to debate Trump, the former California prosecutor and U.S. senator responded: “Yes, I am. Yes.
What is her main message to Trump on the debate stage?
“There’s a lot,” Harris said in response to the question.
“But look, it’s time to turn the page on division. It’s time for our country to come together and chart a new path forward,” she said.
Legal issues ahead of Trump debate
While Harris has been busy preparing for the debate, Trump has been focusing on his myriad legal issues in recent days and hosting lengthy appearances.
The former president held a campaign rally in Mosinee, Wisconsin, for nearly two hours on Saturday and reiterated exposed claim Venezuelan gang members have taken over an apartment building in Aurora, Colorado. He told the crowd that driving Venezuelan immigrants out of the state would “be a bloody story.”
He also downplayed his conviction in a New York state court, calling it a “witch hunt,” as he has done many times before.
Trump is the only former president to be a convicted felon, a Manhattan judge learned Friday Delay His sentencing will have to wait until after the November election. Trump is convicted In May, 34 counts of falsifying business records were filed in connection with hush-money payments to porn stars before the 2016 presidential election.
Trump also held a nearly hour-long press conference at Trump Tower on Friday but did not ask any questions. The appearance came after oral arguments in his civil trial verdict, which found him guilty of sexual abuse and defamation of author E. Jean Carroll.
His lawyer Thursday Not guilty Reindicted in federal court on his behalf alleging he conspired to subvert the results of the 2020 presidential election. U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan set a pretrial schedule that includes deadlines before and after the November election.
The vice presidential debate between Ohio U.S. Senator J.D. Vance and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz is scheduled for October 1 in New York City, hosted by CBS News.
