UPDATE: Donald Trump was requested concerning the remark from final month that Kamala Harris “occurred to show Black.”
Interjecting Harris’ race into the presidential marketing campaign, Trump was suggesting that she was figuring out as Black for political functions. Harris is combined race, however she has lengthy recognized as Black.
“I learn she was not Black, then I learn she was Black,” Trump mentioned.
Harris has not taken the bait, and tonight mentioned that Trump was attempting to make use of race to “divide the American folks.” She then criticized Trump for as soon as calling for the execution of the Central Park 5, the Black males who had been falsely accused of assaulting and raping a Central Park jogger in 1989.
PREVIOUSLY: Kamala Harris insisted that “world leaders are laughing at Donald Trump,” as she famous the variety of his administration’s nationwide safety officers who’ve been vital of his management.
Trump, although, cited a world chief for a reference: Victor Orban, the authoritarian ruler of Hungary.
“It’s completely well-known that these dictators and autocrats are rooting so that you can be president once more as a result of it’s so clear they’ll manipulate you with flattery and favors,” she mentioned.
Trump insisted that Biden’s administration has been “weak and efficient,” whereas insisting that the warfare in Ukraine and Israel wouldn’t have occurred underneath his presidency.
PREVIOUSLY: Donald Trump nonetheless insists that he gained the 2020 presidential election, despite the fact that he informed a podcast host final week that he “misplaced by a whisker.”
ABC Information‘ David Muir had requested Trump concerning the remark, evaluating it to his lengthy unfounded claims that the 2020 election was rigged. The previous president, although, mentioned that he will need to have been being sarcastic. Muir, although, mentioned that he misplaced the sarcasm of the comment.
Trump then went on an prolonged rant concerning the 2020 election, insisting that there have been irregularities in ket swing states earlier than catching himself and saying, “That’s outdated information.”
Harris then mentioned, “Donald Trump was fired by 81 million folks…and clearly he’s having a troublesome time processing that.”
PREVIOUSLY: Kamala Harris largely caught together with her clarification over why her positions have modified on points like fracking, the border and immigration.
Harris mentioned that her values had not modified, even when her insurance policies have, simply as she informed CNN’s Dana Bash in an interview final month.
PREVIOUSLY: ABC Information’ David Muir has been stepping in with some reality checks, most prominently with the wild declare that migrants in Springfield, OH have been consuming cats and canines, with pets disappearing.
The accusation is unfounded, and even Trump’s vice presidential nominee, JD Vance, has acknowledged that it’s unconfirmed.
Muir identified that ABC Information has contacted town supervisor of Springfield, and he mentioned there was “no proof of that.”
“The canines had been eaten,” Trump insisted.
PREVIOUSLY: Kamala Harris rattled Donald Trump on one in all her feedback — that his supporters find yourself leaving his rallies early as a result of they’re “bored.”
She mentioned that individuals ought to attend one in all his rallies and see that “the one factor you’ll not hear him speak about is you. You’ll not hear him speak about your wants, your goals and your needs.”
He responded by denying it, and with the false declare that nobody reveals as much as her rallies. Once they do present up, he mentioned, “she is busing them in and paying them to be there.”
PREVIOUSLY: Kamala Harris has been wanting straight within the digicam as she solutions questions — speaking to the viewers versus speaking solely to the moderators.
“He ended up promoting American chips to China to enhance and modernize navy. He offered us out,” Harris mentioned of his insurance policies towards China.
She hammered Trump for thanking President Xi Jinping for “what he did throughout Covid.”
“We all know that Xi was chargeable for not giving us transparency concerning the origins of Covid,” she mentioned.
Trump has insisted his tariffs would end in China paying extra for items.
PREVIOUSLY: Kamala Harris and Donald Trump opened their debate with Harris shaking arms.
The vp approached Trump and prolonged her hand, they usually politely exchanged greetings.
The opening query was concerning the economic system, with Harris hammering Trump for his proposal for widespread tariffs, saying that it will end in an across-the-board gross sales tax on People as a result of the price can be handed on to shoppers. Trump denied that it was a tax, earlier than shifting to criticism of the Biden administration over the border.
“They’re destroying our nation,” he mentioned of undocumented immigrants.
The stakes of the talk are monumental: Harris and Trump are neck and neck within the polls, and this occasion could also be their solely match-up of the cycle.
Amazingly sufficient, Harris and Trump additionally had by no means met in individual earlier than. The obvious place the place they might have — in the course of the transition from one administration to the following on January 20, 2021 — by no means occurred as a result of Trump refused to attend.
ABC Information’ David Muir and Linsey Davis are moderating the talk, their first time on the helm at such a normal election occasion.
