How Trump and Harris are preparing for their first presidential debate

Published: Sep 03, 2024 Duration: 00:02:23 Category: News & Politics

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Tonight with their first debate. Just one week away. Former President Donald Trump invites President Kamala Harris preparing for what could be the most consequential moment of this campaign in a podcast interview today, Trump projecting confidence while adding a rare acknowledgment that he lost the last election. I've done well with debates. I mean, I became president then the second time I got millions more votes than I got. The first time I was told if I got 63 million, which is what I got the first time. You, you, you would win, you can't not win and I got millions of more votes than that and uh lost by a Whisker Trump. Never a fan of formal debate prep has been reviewing policy with advisers including former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard who once challenged Harris herself on the debate stage. Harris taking a much more formal approach as she prepares to debate Trump and what will be their first face to face meeting? We know this is going to be a tight race to the very end. It's going to be a tight race to the very end. So let's not pay too much attention to those polls. Sources tell ABC news. Harris has done at least two mock debates at her alma mater Howard University. Her campaign bringing on Hillary Clinton's former senior adviser Philippe Rene who helped Clinton prepare for the 2016 debates to once again play the role of Trump. The vice president knows she has to make up ground on the economy where polls give Trump an edge. She's set to roll out a new phase of her agenda in New Hampshire tomorrow focused on building up small businesses by expanding tax deductions. Harris positioning herself a champion of the middle class, the middle class and working class families. Ok. I come from the middle class. I know what I'm talking about and both candidates were off the trail preparing for the debate. And we've also learned that former president Donald Trump is expected to plead not guilty in that new indictment from the special counsel related to his efforts to try to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Trump has a campaign rally in Wisconsin later this week. As for her, she has that campaign stop in New Hampshire and then she'll travel to Pennsylvania where she'll hunker down until the debate. Rachel Scott ABC News Washington.

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