Elections

Trump-Harris Presidential Debate: Live Updates

Former president Donald Trump (left) and Vice President Kamala Harris take part in a presidential debate in Philadelphia, Pa., September 10, 2024. (Brian Snyder/Reuters)
Vice President Kamala Harris and Donald Trump meet for their first-ever (and possibly only) debate tonight in Philadelphia. ABC News is hosting and moderating the event, scheduled after President Biden ended his reelection campaign in the wake of his disastrous debate performance in late June. Follow along for live updates and analysis from the NR team:
Dominic Pino

Despite Obamacare supposedly revolutionizing health care and fixing the system, Democrats’ talking points on health care are almost exactly the same as they were before Obamacare.

Dan McLaughlin

Davis finally asks Harris about something she stood for when she ran for president. Harris changes the subject.

Michael Brendan Dougherty

Kamala Harris is giving an answer on Obamacare in which she implies that people love dealing with their insurance companies now. They do not.

Philip Klein

Kamala Harris says Trump is lying about her trying to take guns away even though in her last presidential campaign she argued for “mandatory buybacks” which is another name for taking guns away.

Dominic Pino

Harris says both she and Tim Walz are gun owners and that Democrats don’t want to take guns away.

Dan McLaughlin

“She is Biden!” Trump distills his argument down to its essence. Harris responds that she represents “a new generation” but still, even now, won’t say a single thing about how she disagrees with Biden. She falls back instead on the Elizabeth Warren “I have a plan” mantra.

Rich Lowry

Harris is at perhaps her most unconvincing when she tries to be uplifting

Dan McLaughlin

Muir begs the candidates to talk about Harris’s race.

Rich Lowry

Trump strong on his Afghan answer—perhaps best answer since the economic exchange at the beginning

Jim Geraghty

After insisting that he doesn’t care how Kamala Harris identifies herself, Trump repeats that he didn’t know she was black and didn’t identify herself as black in the past. He takes the bait, every… single… time.

NR Staff comprises members of the National Review editorial and operational teams.
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