Harris, Trump Go Face-to-Face in Prime Time TV Debate

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Kamala Harris and Donald Trump go head-to-head in a prime time debate on Tuesday. It will be their first – and possibly only – debate during the campaign for November’s election.

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00:00Taking a break from preparing for possibly her biggest test in this election campaign,

00:06Kamala Harris with her husband in Pennsylvania, a key battleground state and the setting for

00:12a U.S. election debate that could make or break her bid for the Oval Office.

00:17Are you ready, Madam Vice President?

00:19Ready.

00:21Democratic candidate Harris and her opponent, Republican Donald Trump, will go face-to-face

00:26on Tuesday for the first time since Harris entered the presidential race and wiped out

00:32Trump's lead in the polls.

00:34She's called Trump unserious and touted her background as a prosecutor in contrast with

00:40Trump, the first former U.S. president to be convicted of felony crimes.

00:45As Attorney General, I held the big Wall Street banks accountable for fraud.

00:53Well, Donald Trump was just found guilty of fraud.

00:5834 counts to be exact.

01:05Former President Trump has called Harris a nasty person.

01:09At a campaign event in another key state, Wisconsin, he criticized Harris and President Joe Biden.

01:16He is the worst president in history.

01:18She will be worse than him.

01:20She will be worse than him.

01:21And Trump is never wrong.

01:22I am never, ever wrong.

01:24Trump goes into the 90-minute primetime show with more experience.

01:29It will be his seventh presidential debate, the most of any candidate in modern history.

01:35He and Harris are expected to argue over the economy, immigration, abortion and crime,

01:41watched by millions of voters.

01:43This is definitely one of the more consequential debates in recent history.

01:47And there's a couple of reasons for that.

01:49One is that the race is just so close that any movement of the needle could have a profound impact on the election.

01:57And the other one is the simple fact that a lot of Americans still don't know who Kamala Harris is.

02:02Harris has not given a single news conference since becoming the Democratic nominee in August.

02:08And that was after Biden's faltering performance in his debate against Trump

02:13eventually forced him to abandon the race.

02:16And I'm going to continue to move until we get the total ban on the total initiative

02:22relative to what we're going to do with more border patrol and more asylum officers.

02:28President Trump?

02:29I really don't know what he said at the end of that sentence.

02:31I don't think he knows what he said either.

02:33Like that debate, when Harris and Trump meet, there will be no live audience.

02:38And microphones will be muted when the other candidate is speaking.

02:42A format seen to benefit Trump, whose hecklings and interruptions in the past put off moderate voters.

02:49But given that Trump is already a known quantity, most eyes are expected to be on Harris.

02:55With this debate, hers to win or lose.

02:58Joseph Wu and Louise Watt for Taiwan Plus.

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