Former US President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris engaged in tense exchanges over the economy and access to abortion in the first part of their pre-election debate. Trump called his opponent a Marxist and at the same time declared that she has “no politics”. Harris said only she has a plan to lift up the middle class, while Trump would only help the wealthy. At the end of the debate, unlike the beginning, the two candidates did not shake hands, Harris and Trump did not even look at each other, The Washington Post noted.
“She has no politics. Everything she believed in three years ago has gone up the chimney… Now she’s going to my philosophy,” the Republican ex-president said on ABC television. He was referring to the fact that Harris is backing away from her former leftist positions in the presidential campaign and is trying to present herself as a centrist candidate.
However, Trump also portrays her as a radical politician and today again declared that she is a Marxist, like her father. Donald Harris was formerly an economist at Stanford University and was recently linked to Marxism by The Economist magazine, but according to the website PolitiFact, this label for Harris is unfounded.
“Tonight in this debate, you’re going to hear things from the same well-worn playbook, a bundle of lies, prejudice and labeling,” the Democratic vice president said of her opponent. In the opening part of the debate devoted to the economy, she talked about how Trump plans to cut taxes for billionaires and large corporations, while increasing the cost of living for the middle class through expanding tariffs. She was referring to the Republican candidate’s plans to introduce a blanket 10 percent tariff on imports into the US and significantly higher fees on goods from China.
“What we did was clean up the mess after Donald Trump,” Harris defended her joint tenure with President Joe Biden.
The debate then shifted from the economy to access to abortion, which many Republican-led states have restricted following a landmark decision by the US Supreme Court the year before last. Harris called these restrictions “Trump’s abortion bans” and attributed responsibility for them to the ex-president, who significantly contributed to the development by selecting three members of the Supreme Court.
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Harris said Trump would enact a federal ban on abortion as president, a claim her opponent called a lie despite his support for such a move during his first term. In the debate, he also repeated the false claim that Democrats support the possibility of “executing” a child after birth and that some states allow this. Host Linsey Davis then entered the exchange, saying that no state allows the killing of a newborn.
Kamala Harris said at the end of a debate with former President Donald Trump that she is focused on the future and on serving the American people, while her opponent looks to the past and puts himself first. In his closing remarks, Trump said the US is a failing country under the current Democratic administration and countered that Harris had had plenty of time to implement her plans.
‘FAKE AND WEAK’: Vice President Harris’ many faces became an immediate topic of conversation online, with some saying they showed nerves and discomfort — and others saying they looked “rehearsed” and “pathetic.” See the reactions: pic.twitter.com/4joBDgb1kA
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September 11, 2024
“You heard two very different visions tonight, one focused on the future and one focused on the past,” Harris said at the end of the nearly two-hour broadcast on ABC television. “I believe the American people know that we have much more in common than what divides us,” she continued.
In the speech, she reiterated that she wants to help the middle class and protect the rights of Americans, including access to abortion. She recalled her earlier career as a prosecutor and emphasized that she never had a “client” other than the American people. “We need someone who cares about you and doesn’t put themselves first,” she said.
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In his segment, Trump did not discuss his plans for a possible second term, instead focusing on criticism of Harris and the current administration. “She started by saying she was going to do this, she was going to do that, she was going to do all these great things. Why didn’t she do them? She’s been there for three and a half years,” the Republican candidate said.
Trump also continued his dark rhetoric about the current state of the United States. “We are a failing country, we are a country in serious decline,” he said. He repeated baseless claims about the influx of immigrants to the US and declared that the world is heading for World War III.
Donald Trump has been prosecuted for national security crimes, economic crimes, election interference—and has been found liable for sexual assault.
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September 11, 2024
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump twice avoided answering the question of whether he wants Ukraine to win the war with Russia in a debate with his Democratic rival Kamala Harris. Instead, he just said he wanted the war to end, the news website Politico wrote.
“I want the war to end. I want to save lives,” Trump said. Instead of giving a direct answer, he claimed, as before, that he would resolve the war before taking office by negotiating with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Asked again if it was in the best interest of the US for Ukraine to win the war, Trump said it was in the country’s best interest to see the war end. “I’m going to do it by talking to one, I’m going to talk to the other. I’m going to bring them together,” Trump said, adding that if he were president, the conflict “would never have happened.”
