With less than two months until election day, the face-off could be a turning point in a bitter contest between the Democratic vice president and Republican former president.
Former US president and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and US Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris will have their first — and possibly only — televised debate before the knife-edge 2024 US presidential election. Picture: KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI and Mandel NGAN / AFP) Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are poised to face off in a potentially game-changing televised debate Tuesday, less than two months ahead of the knife-edge US presidential election.
For Harris, 59, it will be a critical chance to win over voters who still know little about her, as her honeymoon starts to fade after suddenly replacing President Joe Biden in July. The two candidates will be meeting in person for the first time at the ABC News-hosted debate in Philadelphia. Smith said he was hoping"we'll get to hear a little bit of the policies they want to institute and not so much the name calling or the attacks."Harris, America's first female, Black and South Asian vice president, spent five days holed up in a hotel doing intense practice sessions ahead of the debate.
The debate may lack the full-scale shouting matches of previous years, as the two candidates' microphones will be muted when they are not speaking, at the Trump team's request.In one corner is a former prosecutor who has in the past delivered ice-cold put-downs to debate rivals including Biden himself and Trump's former vice president Mike Pence.
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