an inaugurationSupreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor (right) administers nan oath of agency to incoming Vice President Kamala Harris successful beforehand of nan U.S. Capitol connected Jan. 20, 2021, arsenic outgoing Vice President Mike Pence (wearing bluish mask) watches. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Tuesday night’s statesmanlike statement isn’t conscionable nan first matchup betwixt erstwhile President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris. It’s their first clip gathering successful person.

“I was a small spot surprised, group mightiness beryllium amazed to perceive that you person ne'er interacted pinch him, met him face-to-face,” CNN’s Dana Bash said to Harris during their August interview.

Trump and Harris served successful nan national authorities astatine nan aforesaid time, but immoderate logistical quirks and different decisions kept them from interacting straight successful caller years.

Harris was elected to correspond California successful nan U.S. Senate successful 2016, during her 2nd word arsenic nan state’s lawyer general. Trump donated doubly to reelect Harris as California lawyer general, successful 2011 and 2013, though she did not support nan money.

Trump won nan statesmanlike predetermination nan aforesaid twelvemonth Harris was elected to nan U.S. Senate, and some were sworn successful to their respective positions successful early 2017.

Harris was a personnel of nan Senate during Trump’s first impeachment, successful 2019, and voted to impeach him on some counts (he was yet acquitted on statement lines).

Presidential campaigner Trump and vice statesmanlike campaigner Harris didn’t meet successful personification during nan 2020 predetermination (granted, nan COVID-19 pandemic had forced overmuch of nan world online).

Harris did statement Trump’s moving mate, Mike Pence, successful October 2020. Remember nan fly?

Trump and Harris mightiness person crossed paths astatine President Biden’s inauguration successful January 2021, 2 weeks aft nan Capitol riot that Trump is accused of stoking. But Trump decided not to attend, becoming nan first erstwhile president to skip his successor’s inauguration since Andrew Johnson successful 1869.