WATCH LIVE: Harris and Trump meet in landmark debate

Zeke Miller, Michelle L. Price, Jill Colvin and Josh Boak, Associated Press

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Kamala Harris and Donald Trump will meet for nan first clip face-to-face Tuesday nighttime for possibly their only debate, a high-pressure opportunity to showcase their starkly different visions for nan state aft a tumultuous run summer.

The event, astatine 9 p.m. Eastern successful Philadelphia, will connection Americans their astir elaborate look astatine a run that’s dramatically changed since nan past statement successful June. In accelerated fashion, President Joe Biden bowed retired of nan title aft his disastrous performance, Trump survived an assassination effort and bothsides chose their moving mates.

Trump and Harris arrived separately astatine nan National Constitution Center up of nan debate, wherever Harris is intent connected demonstrating that she tin property nan Democratic lawsuit against Trump amended than Biden did. Trump, successful turn, is trying to overgarment nan vice president arsenic an out-of-touch wide while trying to triumph complete voters skeptical he should return to nan White House.

Trump, 78, has struggled to accommodate to Harris, 59, who is nan first woman, Black personification and personification of South Asian descent to service arsenic vice president. The Republican erstwhile president has astatine times resorted to invoking group and gender stereotypes, frustrating friends who want Trump to attraction alternatively connected argumentation differences pinch Harris.

The vice president, for her part, will effort to declare a stock of in installments for nan Biden administration’s accomplishments while besides addressing its debased moments and explaining her shifts distant from much wide positions she took successful nan past.

The statement will taxable Harris, who has sat for only a azygous general question and reply successful nan past six weeks, to a uncommon infinitesimal of sustained questioning.

Her moving mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, speaking Tuesday to donors successful Las Vegas, highlighted Trump’s acquisition debating aft 3 White House runs.

“No 1 successful modern times has done much of these,” he said. “The bully news is that this is his seventh debate, and we cognize precisely what to expect.”

The first early ballots of nan statesmanlike title will spell retired conscionable hours aft nan debate, hosted by ABC News. Absentee ballots are group to beryllium sent retired opening Wednesday successful Alabama.

The group wherever nan 2 candidates will beryllium debating is comparatively small. The candidates’ lecterns are positioned astir 6-8 feet isolated successful a small, blue-lit amphitheater pinch nary unrecorded assemblage successful nan room. That intends location will beryllium nary rowdy applause, nary cheers aliases jeers.

The candidates will participate astatine nan aforesaid clip from other sides of nan stage.

Trump and his run person spotlighted far-left positions Harris took during her grounded 2020 statesmanlike bid. He’s been assisted successful his informal statement prep sessions by Tulsi Gabbard, nan erstwhile Democratic congresswoman and statesmanlike campaigner who tore into Harris during their superior debates.

Harris has sought to take sides her shifts distant from wide causes to much mean stances connected fracking, expanding Medicare for each and mandatory weapon buyback programs — and moreover backing distant from her position that integrative straws should beryllium banned — arsenic pragmatism, insisting that her “values stay nan same.” Her run connected Monday published a page connected its website listing her positions connected cardinal issues.
Trump’s squad insist his reside won’t beryllium immoderate different facing a female opponent.

“President Trump is going to beryllium himself,” elder advisor Jason Miller told reporters during a telephone telephone Monday.

Gabbard, who was besides connected nan call, added that Trump “respects women and doesn’t consciousness nan request to beryllium patronizing aliases to speak to women successful immoderate different measurement than he would speak to a man.”

The vice president, who has been nan Biden administration’s astir outspoken protagonist of abortion entree aft nan Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade successful 2022, is expected to attraction connected calling retired Trump’s inconsistencies astir women’s reproductive care, including his announcement that he will ballot to protect Florida’s six-week abortion prohibition successful a statewide referendum this fall.

She is apt to pass that Trump presents a threat to democracy, from his attempts successful 2020 to overturn his nonaccomplishment successful nan statesmanlike election, spurring his angry supporters to onslaught nan U.S. Capitol connected Jan. 6, 2021, done comments he made arsenic precocious arsenic past weekend.

Trump connected societal media issued yet different connection of retribution, threatening that if he wins he will jailhouse “those progressive successful unscrupulous behavior,” including lawyers, governmental operatives, donors, voters and predetermination officials.