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

Trump took @charles-cooke’s advice from the Editors and said “I’m talking” to Harris. “Sound familiar?” he said.

Dominic Pino

The best antidote to “reliance on foreign oil” is fracking. Fortunately, a decade’s worth of progressive campaigns against fracking were largely unsuccessful.

Dan McLaughlin

Trump openly blames the Democrats for his shooting, arguing that their “threat to democracy” rhetoric got him shot. We don’t know anything close to that about his shooter.

Luther Ray Abel

‘We have a lot to get to’: ABC cuts Trump off while he talks about the Biden/Harris campaigns’ messaging possibly causing a gunman to take a shot that very nearly killed him.

Noah Rothman

Trump says that he might have taken “a bullet to the head” as an outgrowth of Democratic allegations that he is a “threat to democracy.”

Dan McLaughlin

Harris gets her opportunity to do the “Harris the prosecutor” thing and completely fails to make an argument that anything Trump did was against the law.

Rich Lowry

Trump should have pivoted off the legal stuff to get back to prosecuting the case against Harris

Luther Ray Abel

‘I’m winning most of them’ is not the defense Trump should muster when discussing felony charges.

Jim Geraghty

Trump has also become very shout-y over the last twenty minutes or so.

Dominic Pino

There was no fraud in the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ revision of the jobs data. They do it every August, and the revisions regularly go in both directions. Read more here.

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