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Debate Live Updates: Harris Put Trump on Defensive, and Kept Him There

Vice President Kamala Harris shook the hand of former President Donald J. Trump as she walked onstage, then spent the next 90 minutes making every effort to burrow under his skin.

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Donald J. Trump and Kamala Harris met for the first time at their debate on Tuesday night.Credit...Doug Mills/The New York Times

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The debate showed how much the race has changed. Here’s the latest.

Vice President Kamala Harris took the debate stage on Tuesday night, shook the hand of former President Donald J. Trump and then spent the next 90 minutes making every effort to burrow under his skin, hammering him over his criminal convictions, his handling of the Covid-19 pandemic, the size of his rally crowds and the foreign and military leaders who she said have called him a “disgrace.”

“It’s time to turn the page,” Ms. Harris declared in an aggressive performance that seemed to draw on her career as a courtroom prosecutor.

A glowering Mr. Trump often took the bait, responding to Ms. Harris’s critiques with a hail of false claims, misinformation and personal attacks during the debate broadcast from Philadelphia by ABC News. Roughly an hour after it ended, he made his way to the so-called spin room — an unusual appearance by a candidate in the space where campaign surrogates speak.

He told reporters he thought it had been his “best debate,” and that Ms. Harris, whose campaign said in a social media post that she was ready for a second debate, wanted a rematch because “she lost tonight very badly.”

The closely watched debate — the first-ever face-to-face meeting between Ms. Harris and Mr. Trump — was an opportunity for Ms. Harris to define herself for voters who are still getting to know her barely a month after she became the Democratic nominee. At least one voter was said she was swayed after watching the debate: the pop star Taylor Swift, who wrote in an Instagram post to her 283 million followers that she was backing the vice president.

The matchup underscored just how much the race for the White House has changed since President Biden dropped out after his miserable debate performance in June left Democrats in despair. Ms. Harris was for the most part able to deliver a crisp and clear message. Mr. Trump seemed angry and defensive.

Only infrequently was he able to tie her to the unpopular Mr. Biden, which his advisers had signaled was one of his primary goals, especially during the first hour of the debate.

“She’s a Marxist — everybody knows she’s a Marxist,” Mr. Trump said in a typical attack. “Her father’s a Marxist professor in economics, and he taught her well.”

At points, Ms. Harris put her hand under her chin as she watched Mr. Trump’s answers with skeptical amazement, laughing out loud when he repeated false and outlandish claims that immigrants were stealing and eating their neighbors’ pets in an Ohio town.

But while there were plenty of flash points, there did not seem to be a knockout blow that could fundamentally alter the dynamics of what by all measures will be an exceedingly close election in November. Ms. Harris attempted to portray Mr. Trump as a friend to billionaires and big corporations who would soak the middle class. Mr. Trump characterized Ms. Harris as a policy lightweight who was far too liberal to lead the nation.

One of the evening’s most contentious moments revolved around abortion, where voters have expressed more trust in Ms. Harris’s leadership than Mr. Trump’s. The vice president tried to frame the issue as one of personal freedom and liberty.

“One does not have to abandon their faith or deeply held beliefs to agree the government — and Donald Trump, certainly — should not be telling a woman what to do with her body,” Ms. Harris said.

For Ms. Harris, Tuesday’s debate was a chance to further define herself in voters’ eyes, with many saying they want to know more about her policy goals. For Mr. Trump, the evening offered an opportunity to show discipline in attacking the vice president without resorting to the sexist and racist jabs that he has often favored on the campaign trail. He largely managed to avoid repeating those insults, even when the moderators asked him about comments he had made questioning Ms. Harris’s racial identity.

Here’s what else to know:

Trump presses on immigration: Again and again, no matter the question, Mr. Trump tried to bring the debate back to immigration, a weakness for Ms. Harris, according to the polls. He put the border crisis firmly at her doorstep. Ms. Harris countered by noting that Republicans in Congress had killed a bipartisan border bill at his urging. And early in the evening, she predicted: “He’s going to talk about immigration a lot tonight, even when it’s not the subject that is being raised.”

Swift endorses Harris: Shortly after the debate ended, Ms. Swift endorsed Ms. Harris and her running mate, Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota Ms. Swift signed her Instagram post “childless cat lady,” a reference to comments made by Trump’s running mate, Senator JD Vance of Ohio, about women without children.

Real-time fact-checking. ABC’s moderators, David Muir and Linsey Davis, provided limited fact-checking, but when they did jump in, their rebukes were sharp. “There is no state in this country where it is legal to kill a baby after it’s born,” Ms. Davis told Mr. Trump after he falsely claimed that some babies were being subjected to “executions” after birth.

Light on new policy specifics: A New York Times/Siena College poll this weekend found that 28 percent of likely voters felt they needed to know more about Ms. Harris. Nearly half of those specified that they wanted to know more about her policy proposals. But Ms. Harris gave few details to the national television audience, preferring to make a broader case that she represented the future of American politics. Mr. Trump also avoided being pinned down, refusing to answer whether he would sign a national abortion ban and, after being pressed on whether he would replace the Affordable Care Act, saying: “I have concepts of a plan. I’m not president right now.”

Location, location, location: The electoral-vote-rich presidential battleground state of Pennsylvania, where the debate took place, is critical for both campaigns in the final sprint. Polls show a tight race. Ms. Harris even appealed to the state’s Polish Americans, suggesting that Mr. Trump would allow President Vladimir Putin of Russia to invade Poland.

Jonathan Weisman, Reid J. Epstein and Taylor Robinson contributed reporting.

Nick Corasaniti

Sept. 11, 2024, 12:18 a.m. ET11 minutes ago

Nick Corasaniti

After questioning Harris’s race, Trump tries to walk it back at debate.

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Former President Donald J. Trump reacting to Vice President Kamala Harris during the presidential debate at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, on Tuesday.Credit...Doug Mills/The New York Times

In late July, Donald J. Trump said at a gathering of Black journalists in Chicago that “all of a sudden,” Vice President Kamala Harris had “made a turn and she became a Black person.”

On Tuesday, standing feet from Ms. Harris on the debate stage, Mr. Trump said “whatever she wants to be is OK with me.”

But his attempt to take back his racial attack didn’t stick. Minutes later, when pressed by moderators to further explain the remark, he went on to say that “all I can say is, I read where she was not Black, that she put out.” He continued: “And I’ll say that, and then I read that she was Black. And that’s OK. Either one was OK with me. That’s up to her.”

Mr. Trump’s initial remarks this summer were a flashpoint for the Trump campaign. The former president was slammed with criticism, jeopardizing an opportunity to make gains amid a Black electorate that had been softening in its support for Democrats. Ms. Harris has since made strides with Black voters.

On Tuesday, she used her response to make an extended appeal for less divisive politics. She said it was a “tragedy that we have someone who wants to be president who has, consistently, over the course of his career, attempted to use race to divide the American people.” She cited Mr. Trump’s harsh comments about the Central Park Five, the five Black and Latino men who were wrongly convicted of the rape of a jogger in New York City, and the lie that former President Barack Obama was not born in the United States.

“I think the American people want better than that,” Ms. Harris said.

Ms. Harris’s father was born in Jamaica, and her mother was born in India. She has long embraced both her Black and South Asian identity. Ms. Haris attended Howard University, a historically Black institution. While she was a United States senator, her official biography described her as “the second African-American woman and first South Asian-American senator in history.” Her White House biography says she is “the first woman, the first Black American, and the first South Asian American to be elected to this position.”

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Sept. 10, 2024, 11:59 p.m. ET30 minutes ago

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Vice President Kamala Harris, accompanied by Doug Emhoff, the second gentleman, stopped by a watch party at Cherry Street Pier in Philadelphia to greet supporters, after the debate.

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Chris Cameron

Sept. 10, 2024, 11:48 p.m. ET40 minutes ago

Chris Cameron

"Vice President Harris is ready for a second debate," her campaign said on X. "Is Donald Trump?" Trump indicated he would "think about that" but said "she wants a second debate because she lost tonight very badly."

Simon J. Levien

Sept. 10, 2024, 11:49 p.m. ET40 minutes ago

Simon J. Levien

Trump then repeated that assertion in a post-debate appearance on Fox News, talking with Sean Hannity. “When you’re a prize fighter and you lose, you immediately want a new fight," he said of Harris.

Michael Gold

Sept. 10, 2024, 11:51 p.m. ET38 minutes ago

Michael GoldReporting from Philadelphia

Before Trump came into the spin room, his advisers insisted that he had already committed to a proposed debate with NBC on Sep. 25. But Trump — who has been goading Harris for weeks about a second debate — adopted more of a “well, we’ll see” approach tonight.

Michael Gold

Sept. 10, 2024, 11:38 p.m. ET51 minutes ago

Michael GoldReporting from Philadelphia

Trump came into the spin room, flocked by advisers, about an hour after the debate ended and was immediately swarmed by press, taking attention away from the dozen or so Harris surrogates in the room. He insisted repeatedly that this was his best debate performance — better than the one that ultimately led Biden to exit the race.

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Michael Gold

Sept. 10, 2024, 11:33 p.m. ET56 minutes ago

Michael GoldReporting from Philadelphia

Asked why he came to the spin room if he thinks he did so well, he replied simply that he was asked.

Jazmine Ulloa

Sept. 10, 2024, 11:30 p.m. ET59 minutes ago

Jazmine Ulloa

The host Rachel Maddow on MSNBC read Taylor Swift’s Instagram endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris in its entirety to her running mate, Gov. Tim Walz, who was on video link from Mesa, Ariz., where he has been campaigning. Walz put a hand on his chest and smiled wide as he took in the news. “I am incredibly grateful, first of all, to Taylor Swift. I say that also as a cat owner — a fellow cat owner,” he said, calling her message “eloquent” and “clear” and urging Swifties to “get on over” to Harris’s website.

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Kellen Browning

Sept. 10, 2024, 11:19 p.m. ET1 hour ago

Kellen BrowningReporting from Phoenix

Yes, Kamala Harris owns a handgun.

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“This business about taking everyone’s guns away — Tim Walz and I are both gun owners,” Vice President Kamala Harris said during Tuesday’s debate, referring to her running mate, the governor of Minnesota.Credit...Doug Mills/The New York Times

Late during the presidential debate on Tuesday, Vice President Kamala Harris asserted something that might have surprised some viewers: She owns a gun.

Ms. Harris’s statement came in response to an accusation from former President Donald J. Trump that “she has a plan to confiscate everybody’s gun.”

Ms. Harris pointed to her record of gun ownership, as well as that of her vice-presidential nominee, Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota.

“This business about taking everyone’s guns away — Tim Walz and I are both gun owners,” she said. “We’re not taking anybody’s guns away, so stop with the continuous lying about this stuff.”

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This is not the first time that Ms. Harris has spoken of owning a gun, a cultural signifier that over the years has more often been associated with Republicans than Democrats. When she was running for president in the 2020 Democratic primary, Ms. Harris, a former prosecutor, said that she kept a gun for safety.

“I am a gun owner, and I own a gun for probably the reason a lot of people do — for personal safety,” she told reporters in Iowa in 2019. “I was a career prosecutor.”

By invoking their gun ownership, Ms. Harris and Mr. Walz have tried to refute the contention that one either supports an interpretation of the Second Amendment that does not restrict guns in the United States or advocates the wholesale confiscation of them. Both Democrats have called for some restrictions on who can own a gun and how they can be purchased, often re-upping those pleas after mass shootings.

Mr. Trump also owns guns, though the New York Police Department sought to revoke his concealed carry permit after he was convicted of 34 felonies in May.

Adam Nagourney

Sept. 10, 2024, 11:15 p.m. ET1 hour ago

Adam NagourneyReporting on the 2024 presidential race

Kamala Harris showed the benefits of preparing for a debate: In contrast to Trump, she came in with a list of themes and attacks. She got under Trump’s skin, and kept returning to the central theme of moving forward, turning the page, and generational change. She also showed how she was going to deal with Trump's attempts to tie her to Biden: Ignore him, respectfully.

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David E. Sanger

Sept. 10, 2024, 11:14 p.m. ET1 hour ago

David E. SangerReporting on foreign policy

When it comes to the worldviews of these two candidates, here’s what we learned tonight: Trump has doubled-down on his admiration of authoritarians, starting with Viktor Orban of Hungary, and his conviction that deals can be struck — with no regard to principles like national soverignty or democracy. And Harris hewed close to the Biden view, losing an opportunity to talk about how she might handle the lit-matches around the globe. Missing from both: A long-term vision for handling an increasingly aggressive China or a Russia that may act as a disruptor for decades.

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Michael Grynbaum

Sept. 10, 2024, 11:11 p.m. ET1 hour ago

Michael GrynbaumReporting from Philadelphia

The cat in Swift’s endorsement post is Benjamin Button, her Ragdoll.

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Theodore Schleifer

Sept. 10, 2024, 11:10 p.m. ET1 hour ago

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Taylor Swift endorses Kamala Harris in Instagram post.

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In her Instagram post with her pet cat, Taylor Swift said she would vote for Kamala Harris “because she fights for the rights and causes I believe need a warrior to champion them.”Credit...Instagram

Look what they made her do.

Taylor Swift, one of America’s most celebrated pop-culture icons with an enormous following across the world, endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris late Tuesday in the immediate aftermath of the presidential debate.

The endorsement by Ms. Swift, delivered mere minutes after Ms. Harris and former President Donald J. Trump stepped off the debate stage in Philadelphia, offers Ms. Harris an unrivaled validator in the world of celebrity.

“Like many of you, I watched the debate tonight,” Ms. Swift wrote on Instagram to her 283 million followers. “I will be casting my vote for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz in the 2024 Presidential Election. I’m voting for @kamalaharris because she fights for the rights and causes I believe need a warrior to champion them."

She signed her post as “Childless Cat Lady,” a reference to comments made by Mr. Trump’s running mate, Senator JD Vance of Ohio, about women without children. The photo that accompanied her post showed her holding a furry feline, Benjamin Button, her pet Ragdoll.

Ms. Swift’s endorsement was much anticipated for Democrats. She has embraced a more political posture during the last several years and become more outspoken on issues such as abortion access. But its precise timing was something of a surprise.

Ms. Swift is one of the few celebrities with broad appeal and the ability to cut through a crowded media environment. Her romance with Travis Kelce, the star tight end for the Kansas City Chiefs, has captivated the world of football and culture, and she is in the final stages of a head-spinning international tour that has sold out stadiums across the globe.

But Karoline Leavitt, a spokeswoman for the Trump campaign, dismissed the endorsement as “more evidence that the Democrat party has become the party of the wealthy elite.”

Jess Bidgood, Michael M. Grynbaum and Michael Gold contributed reporting.

Margot Sanger-Katz

Sept. 10, 2024, 11:08 p.m. ET1 hour ago

Margot Sanger-Katz

“When Donald Trump was president, 60 times he tried to get rid of the Affordable Care Act — 60 times.”

— Vice President Kamala Harris

False.

As president, Trump did try to get rid of the Affordable Care Act, urging Republicans in Congress in 2017 to pass several bills to repeal and replace major portions of it. Those efforts were ultimately unsuccessful. Republicans in Congress had voted many times since the health law was enacted in 2010 to fully repeal or substantially modify Obamacare. Most of those attempts predated Trump’s presidency. Various analysts have tallied those efforts at 70, or even 100. But those very high counts include even proposed changes to the landmark legislation that were relatively minor — and some that had bipartisan support. Most failed to become law.

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Nicholas Nehamas

Sept. 10, 2024, 11:07 p.m. ET1 hour ago

Nicholas Nehamas

Taylor Swift has endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris in a post on Instagram, writing that watching tonight’s debate convinced her to weigh in publicly.

Nicholas Nehamas

Sept. 10, 2024, 11:09 p.m. ET1 hour ago

Nicholas Nehamas

Swift signed her post “childless cat lady,” a reference to comments made by Trump’s running mate, Senator JD Vance of Ohio, about women without children. The accompanying photo shows her holding a fluffy feline.

Michael Gold

Sept. 10, 2024, 11:07 p.m. ET1 hour ago

Michael GoldReporting from Philadelphia

The Trump campaign officials and surrogates in the spin room have been hammering ABC News, arguing that the moderators were biased and did not try to fact-check any of Harris’s statements or press her on issues. Asked about Trump seeming to be on defense, Danielle Alvarez, a campaign spokeswoman, said “Well, I think he absolutely was. And, again, part of it is that it was a three-on-one in the debate.”

Jim Tankersley

Sept. 10, 2024, 11:06 p.m. ET1 hour ago

Jim Tankersley

“He lost manufacturing jobs.”

— Vice President Kamala Harris

This needs context.

The United States had lost nearly 200,000 factory jobs at the end of Donald Trump’s presidency compared with when Trump took office. Those losses were largely a product of the pandemic recession.

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Jim Tankersley

Sept. 10, 2024, 11:04 p.m. ET1 hour ago

Jim Tankersley

“We have created over 800,000 new manufacturing jobs.”

— Vice President Kamala Harris

This is misleading.

Since President Biden took office, seasonally adjusted manufacturing employment has increased by 739,000 jobs. Previous estimates put that increase above 800,000, but that number fell after the Labor Department issued an annual revision to its jobs numbers last month.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg

Sept. 10, 2024, 11:03 p.m. ET1 hour ago

Sheryl Gay Stolberg

“I had a choice to make” on Obamacare. “Do I save it and make it as good as it can be? Or do I let it rot? And I saved it. I did the right thing.”

— Former President Donald J. Trump

False.

Trump did not “save” the health insurance law known as Obamacare; the United States Senate did, in defiance of him. During his first year in office, Trump asked Congress to pass legislation repealing the Affordable Care Act, the 2010 law that created the program. The Republican-controlled House approved the bill. But in a dramatic moment on Capitol Hill, Senator John McCain, the Arizona Republican and nemesis of Trump, cast the decisive vote to defeat the proposal, just days after returning to the Senate after receiving a diagnosis of brain cancer. The vote was a surprise to Trump; he had cheered McCain’s return to Washington in a social media post calling the Arizona senator “brave” and a “hero,” apparently believing that he had come back to Congress to help kill — not save — Obamacare.

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Linda Qiu

Sept. 10, 2024, 10:56 p.m. ET2 hours ago

Linda Qiu

“All I can say is I read where she was not Black. That she put out. And I’ll say that and then I read that she was Black, and that’s OK. Either one was OK with me.”

— Former President Donald J. Trump

False.

It’s unclear what Trump read, but Vice President Kamala Harris has always identified as Black and South Asian during her time in public office. Harris wrote in her 2019 memoir that “my mother understood very well that she was raising two Black daughters.”

Harris joined Alpha Kappa Alpha, a sorority for Black women, at Howard University, a historically Black university. She was also the president of the Black Law Students Association at the University of California Hastings College of the Law. A 1999 Los Angeles Times article mentioning Harris, then an assistant district attorney in San Francisco, referred to her as a “liberal African American” prosecutor, and a 2000 San Francisco Examiner article called Harris a leader in the city’s Black community.

She first ran for public office in 2002 for San Francisco district attorney and, when she won her race, became the state’s first Black district attorney. She appeared on a panel as an emerging leader in the Black community in a 2006 conference. And in a 2009 speech to a Los Angeles-area high school about Black history, Harris spoke of her personal history as intertwined with that of the civil rights movement, alluding to how her parents “organized” in the streets during the 1960s.

Alan Rappeport

Sept. 10, 2024, 10:54 p.m. ET2 hours ago

Alan RappeportReporting on economic policy

The economy is a major priority for voters this year, and Harris offered a well-rehearsed menu of policies, even if many of them were light on details. Trump seemed to be trying to bring the discussion back to the economy and the Biden administration’s record on inflation, but he often got distracted or goaded into personal attacks on Harris. The discussion of tax policy was remarkably light, and Trump largely missed the chance to warn voters that Harris has proposed tax increases that would affect many Americans.

Michael Crowley

Sept. 10, 2024, 10:53 p.m. ET2 hours ago

Michael Crowley

“As of today, there is not one member of the United States military who is in active duty in a combat zone, in any war zone around the world, for the first time this century.”

— Vice President Kamala Harris

This needs context.

No U.S. troops are fighting in an all-out war like the ones in Iraq and Afghanistan. But thousands of American troops have become entangled in hostilities around the Middle East since the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks.

President Biden has deployed numerous warships and fighter jets to Israel’s coast, and U.S. forces have intercepted Iranian missiles and drones fired at Israel. They have also launched dozens of airstrikes against Yemen’s Houthi militants. American forces have also suffered casualties: Three U.S. service members based in Jordan were killed in January by an attack drone, and two Navy Seals drowned earlier in February during anti-Houthi operations. Iranian-backed militias have also repeatedly attacked U.S. forces stationed in Iraq and Syria, causing multiple injuries.

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Reid J. Epstein

Sept. 10, 2024, 10:52 p.m. ET2 hours ago

Reid J. EpsteinReporting from Philadelphia

In the spin room, Trump surrogates are complaining about the moderators from ABC News, David Muir and Linsey Davis, below being applauded by ABC News colleagues. “It was a poor performance by the moderators,” said Vivek Ramaswamy, who ran for the Republican nomination himself in the primaries. He called the event “a three-on-one debate.”

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Jess Bidgood

Sept. 10, 2024, 10:48 p.m. ET2 hours ago

Jess BidgoodReporting on the 2024 presidential race

Before this debate, Trump, who is at least 6 feet tall, posted on his social media site that boxes or lifts shouldn’t be allowed — nothing that could make Harris seem any taller than the 5 foot, 4 inches that she is. But if he hoped their height disparity would help him, he might be disappointed. Much of what viewers saw tonight was a split screen, which meant the two looked to viewers to be the same height.

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Andrew Duehren

Sept. 10, 2024, 10:48 p.m. ET2 hours ago

Andrew Duehren

“Over the last four years, we have invested $1 trillion in a clean energy economy.”

— Vice President Kamala Harris

This is misleading.

The current administration has facilitated a burst of private investment because of tax credits and other incentives included in the Inflation Reduction Act passed in 2022. According to the Clean Investment Monitor, which tracks investments, clean energy investment since 2021 has totaled roughly $700 billion. Some experts expect the clean energy incentives to eventually help drive more than $1 trillion in private investment.

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Jonathan Weisman

Sept. 10, 2024, 10:48 p.m. ET2 hours ago

Jonathan WeismanReporting on the 2024 presidential race

The closing arguments framed the election — and the campaign of the next two months. Harris used her last time with the microphone to strike a tone of moderation and project politics into the future. Trump used his to attack his opponent, bringing back a line of attack he used effectively against Hillary Clinton eight years ago: If you have so many great ideas to solve the nation’s problems, why haven’t you done them? To Harris’s optimism, Trump ended with this: “We’re a failing nation. We’re a nation in serious decline.”

Maya King

Sept. 10, 2024, 10:48 p.m. ET2 hours ago

Maya KingReporting from Durham, N.C.

Trump has struggled to define Harris since she became the Democratic nominee, leaning more on attacks on her racial identity and heritage than policy stances. In the final line of his closing statements, he got closer to the latter, landing on a basic attack by calling her “the worst vice president” in America’s history.

Maggie Haberman

Sept. 10, 2024, 10:46 p.m. ET2 hours ago

Maggie HabermanReporting on the 2024 presidential race

The debate is now over, with no handshake.

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Alan Rappeport

Sept. 10, 2024, 10:46 p.m. ET2 hours ago

Alan RappeportReporting on economic policy

Trump, declining to end on an optimistic note, concludes by calling Harris “the worst vice president in the history of our country.”

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Adam Nagourney

Sept. 10, 2024, 10:46 p.m. ET2 hours ago

Adam NagourneyReporting on the 2024 presidential race

Trump got the final word on the closing statement because of a coin flip, but from my experience, closing statements don’t mean a lot: Viewers are moving on after 100 minutes, or switching channels, and reporters and analysts are deep into writing their stories.

Michael Grynbaum

Sept. 10, 2024, 10:45 p.m. ET2 hours ago

Michael GrynbaumReporting from Philadelphia

It’s been a memorable night for the host network, ABC News. Its moderators, David Muir and Linsey Davis, evinced a more assertive presence than we’ve seen from previous moderators: Neither was shy about fact-checking Trump’s wilder claims, like a falsehood about migrants eating cats in Ohio. Right-wing news outlets and Trump allies have already begun criticizing the network for what they view as unfair treatment. But Trump and his campaign agreed to participate with this network and these moderators, and Trump has sat for interviews with Muir — who is the most-watched news anchor in the country — on several previous occasions.

Maggie Haberman

Sept. 10, 2024, 10:45 p.m. ET2 hours ago

Maggie HabermanReporting on the 2024 presidential race

Trump’s line — “why hasn’t she done it?” — has been what his team was telegraphing for days that he would say. But his aides hoped it would happen before minute 105 in the debate.

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Alan Rappeport

Sept. 10, 2024, 10:44 p.m. ET2 hours ago

Alan RappeportReporting on economic policy

Trump responds with a catch-all retort to Harris’s plans, noting that she is now in office: “Why hasn’t she done it?”

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Alan Rappeport

Sept. 10, 2024, 10:43 p.m. ET2 hours ago

Alan RappeportReporting on economic policy

In her closing statement, Harris describes her campaign as one focused on the future, and Trump’s as fixated on the past. Reprising her campaign line, she says, “We’re not going back.”

Sheryl Gay Stolberg

Sept. 10, 2024, 10:42 p.m. ET2 hours ago

Sheryl Gay Stolberg

“Now she wants to do transgender operations on illegal aliens that are in prison.”

— Former President Donald J. Trump

This needs context.

Trump is referring to Harris’s response to a 2019 American Civil Liberties Union questionnaire, in which she said she supported using taxpayer funds to give access to gender-affirming care to transgender and nonbinary people, including those in immigration detention and prison.

Read the full fact check.

Adam Nagourney

Sept. 10, 2024, 10:41 p.m. ET2 hours ago

Adam NagourneyReporting on the 2024 presidential race

Harris kept saying she’d return to address the flip-flopping questions in a specific way, but other than fracking, she never really did it. Yes, the moderators for the most part didn’t push her — but how come Trump didn’t return to push her on those issues? That is like Debating 101.

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Jonathan Swan

Sept. 10, 2024, 10:41 p.m. ET2 hours ago

Jonathan SwanReporting on the 2024 presidential race

Advisers to both candidates view 2024 as a “change election.” Their internal polls show that undecided voters are frustrated with the country’s leaders. Harris is trying to present herself as a break from the past, as the bright and optimistic future. Trump has been trying to reinforce for voters that she is an incumbent — that she “owns” Biden’s record — and is not an agent of change.

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Jonathan Weisman

Sept. 10, 2024, 10:40 p.m. ET2 hours ago

Jonathan WeismanReporting on the 2024 presidential race

As the debate moves to closing statements, the former president's last words before the final break were meant to impugn President Biden, accusing him baselessly of taking money from China and the “mayor of Moscow’s wife.” This, he argued, “is a crooked administration.” It was the campaign he ran against Hillary Clinton in 2016. But Harris has had a response that she trotted out often. “Clearly,” she said, “I am not Joe Biden.”

Jonathan Swan

Sept. 10, 2024, 10:39 p.m. ET2 hours ago

Jonathan SwanReporting on the 2024 presidential race

Trump has struggled to get over the fact that he’s not running against Biden anymore. He views it as “unfair” that Democrats switched him out and he still falls back into old patterns of attacking his former opponent. Just then, he went off on a conspiratorial riff about the Biden family and foreign cash.

Maggie Haberman

Sept. 10, 2024, 10:36 p.m. ET2 hours ago

Maggie HabermanReporting on the 2024 presidential race

For those watching along with us, the debate is running a little longer than it was supposed to. It was set for 90 minutes.

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Alan Rappeport

Sept. 10, 2024, 10:36 p.m. ET2 hours ago

Alan RappeportReporting on economic policy

Harris is asked about climate change and lays out how the Biden climate agenda has been a pillar of the administration’s economic strategy. Trump, on the other hand, wants to repeal the Inflation Reduction Act, which has funded much of the clean-energy manufacturing development in the U.S. Many Republicans in states where these projects are being built are concerned about this.

Linda Qiu

Sept. 10, 2024, 10:35 p.m. ET2 hours ago

Linda Qiu

“For years we were paying almost all of NATO. We were being ripped off by European nations, both on trade and on NATO. I got them to pay up.”

— Former President Donald J. Trump

This is misleading.

Trump incorrectly characterizes the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Member countries make direct contributions to the organization, based on national income, and also agree to spend at least 2 percent of their gross domestic product on their own defense.

Read the full fact check.

Helene Cooper

Sept. 10, 2024, 10:34 p.m. ET2 hours ago

Helene Cooper

“They sent her in to negotiate with Zelensky and Putin, and she did, and the war started three days later.”

— Former President Donald J. Trump

False.

The vice president traveled to the Munich Security Conference in February 2022, in the days before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine that month. President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine was there, and Harris met with him. Putin was not present.

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Alan Rappeport

Sept. 10, 2024, 10:33 p.m. ET2 hours ago

Alan RappeportReporting on economic policy

Harris, sticking with her strategy of baiting Trump, moves the Affordable Care Act discussion to a recollection of how the late Senator John McCain — a Trump nemesis — blocked Republicans from repealing it.

Jess Bidgood

Sept. 10, 2024, 10:33 p.m. ET2 hours ago

Jess BidgoodReporting on the 2024 presidential race

Harris says that she and Tim Walz are both gun owners, and they’re not taking anybody’s guns away.

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Jennifer Medina

Sept. 10, 2024, 10:32 p.m. ET2 hours ago

Jennifer Medina

Trump aims to tie Harris critically to her father, a professor of Marxist economics.

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Early in Tuesday’s debate, former President Donald J. Trump attacked Vice President Kamala Harris by tying her to her father.

“She’s a Marxist — everybody knows she’s a Marxist,” Mr. Trump said. “Her father is a Marxist professor in economics, and he taught her well.”

Ms. Harris has repeatedly made clear that she supports capitalism. But her father, Donald J. Harris, a renowned economist who has been a fleeting figure in her life, has been described as a “Marxist scholar.”

Marxism refers to the political, social and economic theories of Karl Marx, practiced as socialism or communism.

Dr. Harris was the first Black scholar to receive tenure in Stanford’s economics department and a prominent critic of mainstream economic theory from the left. The Stanford Daily, the university’s student newspaper, reporting in 1976, said that there was some opposition to granting him tenure because he was “too charismatic, a pied piper leading students astray from neo-Classical economics.”

Ms. Harris has received the backing of more than 80 chief executives, some of whom have called her “pro-business.”

Dr. Harris is still a professor emeritus at Stanford and turned 86 last month, the day after Ms. Harris spoke at the Democratic National Convention. He did not appear alongside her that evening, but she did pay a rare homage to him in her speech, saying that his encouragement had helped inspire her.

“From my earliest years,” Ms. Harris said then, “he taught me to be fearless.”

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Jonathan Weisman

Sept. 10, 2024, 10:30 p.m. ET2 hours ago

Jonathan WeismanReporting on the 2024 presidential race

The first, and probably the only, presidential debate of this fall neared its end on friendly turf for Harris, race and division in the United States. She used it to bring up Trump’s racist past, his early legal troubles for refusing to rent to Black tenants and his push for the death penalty for the later-exonerated “Central Park Five.” Her message: “I think the American people want better than that, want better than this.” Trump, again on his heels, tried again to steer the conversation back to the economy and make a point he has wanted to make all night: “She is Biden,” he said. It’s been a tough night for the former president.

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Maggie Haberman

Sept. 10, 2024, 10:29 p.m. ET2 hours ago

Maggie HabermanReporting on the 2024 presidential race

Trump is now attacking the Affordable Care Act, which has become popular over time. He is dodging whether he still plans to repeal it.

Jazmine Ulloa

Sept. 10, 2024, 10:29 p.m. ET2 hours ago

Jazmine Ulloa

“They’re eating the cats”: Trump repeats false claim about immigrants.

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Former President Donald J. Trump repeated a false and outlandish claim that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, have abducted and eaten their neighbors’ pets.

Mr. Trump made the comments on Tuesday early in his first debate against Vice President Kamala Harris, shortly after Ms. Harris mocked his rallies as so filled with fictions and fringe theories that attendees leave early. Mr. Trump responded by trying to pivot back to the subject under discussion, immigration.

“A lot of towns don’t want to talk about it because they’re so embarrassed by it,” he said. “In Springfield, they’re eating the dogs. The people that came in, they’re eating the cats. They’re eating — they’re eating the pets of the people that live there.”

Mr. Trump and his running mate, Senator JD Vance of Ohio, have amplified the internet rumor on the campaign trail this week. It stems from viral social media posts that have spread as Mr. Vance and others have sought to stir fears about the growing Haitian population in Springfield, though members of the community are living and working in the United States legally.

Local officials have found no evidence, credible reports or specific claims of pets being harmed by Haitian residents.

When David Muir, a debate moderator, noted the lack of evidence, Mr. Trump said he had gotten his information from “the people on television saying my dog was taken and used for food.”

Ms. Harris laughed. Mr. Trump’s “extreme” statements, she said, are one of the reasons she has the endorsements of 200 Republicans.

Mr. Vance first made the claim about Haitian immigrants on Monday, saying “it’s coming to your city next.” A news release from the Trump campaign later recounted the falsehoods. Mr. Vance then appeared to backtrack on Tuesday morning in a social post, saying his office had “received many inquiries” about the false claims. But he added that “it’s possible, of course, that all of these rumors will turn out to be false.”

That has not stopped the social media platforms from being awash with memes and AI-generated images of cats in support of Mr. Trump.

Job opportunities in Springfield, a city of roughly 58,000 people between Columbus and Dayton, have attracted thousands of Haitians since the pandemic began, with city officials estimating that as many as 20,000 have arrived. By some accounts, the immigrant community has helped revitalize the town, though it has put pressure on housing, schools and hospitals.

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Michael Grynbaum

Sept. 10, 2024, 10:29 p.m. ET2 hours ago

Michael GrynbaumReporting from Philadelphia

There was much ado about muted microphones before this debate. But ABC News has taken a pragmatic approach: On several occasions, the network has turned the microphone on when a candidate requests time to respond to a particularly sharp attack. In some cases, it has allowed the candidates to engage directly with each other. But a few of those exchanges have descended into crosstalk, and were hard for viewers to follow.

Adam Nagourney

Sept. 10, 2024, 10:28 p.m. ET2 hours ago

Adam NagourneyReporting on the 2024 presidential race

Trump’s attempt to tie Harris to Biden seems to have teed up a line she had ready to go distinguishing her candidacy from Biden and presenting herself as a new-generation candidate. It echoed her main campaign theme: Let’s turn the page.

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Maggie Haberman

Sept. 10, 2024, 10:27 p.m. ET2 hours ago

Maggie HabermanReporting on the 2024 presidential race

A Harris official says Yusef Salaam, one of the Central Park Five, will be in the spin room after the debate.

Lisa Friedman

Sept. 10, 2024, 10:27 p.m. ET2 hours ago

Lisa Friedman

Biden “ended the XL pipeline, the XL pipeline in our country. He ended that.”

— Former President Donald J. Trump

This needs context.

On his first day in office, President Biden rescinded the construction permit for the Keystone XL oil pipeline, which would have transported carbon-heavy oil from the Canadian oil sands to the Gulf Coast. That same day, the sponsor of the project, TC Energy, a Canadian company, said that it was suspending work on the line.

Trump had revived the project after it stalled under the Obama administration, but it continued to face legal challenges that hampered construction. Opponents had fought the project for years over concerns that burning oil sands crude could make climate change worse and harder to reverse.

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Alan Rappeport

Sept. 10, 2024, 10:26 p.m. ET2 hours ago

Alan RappeportReporting on economic policy

Trump, off balance on the race discussion, pivoted to inflation and said that Harris and Biden had no idea how to run an economy. Harris said, “Clearly I am not Joe Biden and I am certainly not Donald Trump,” and said that she had her own plans.

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Alexandra Berzon

Sept. 10, 2024, 10:26 p.m. ET2 hours ago

Alexandra Berzon

“A lot of these illegal immigrants coming in —” Democrats are “trying to get them to vote.”

— Former President Donald J. Trump

This lacks evidence.

In recent months, Trump and other Republicans have frequently made the false claim that there’s a major crisis of noncitizens illegally voting in federal elections. They often claim, with no evidence, that Democrats are trying to get undocumented immigrants to vote in order to cheat their way to electoral victory.

In fact, people who are not U.S. citizens already face fines or imprisonment for voting in federal elections under a 1996 law. And experts point to data indicating that cases of noncitizens voting are rare and nowhere near the threshold to sway an election. Instance of undocumented people doing so are even rarer. Registrants to vote have to swear under penalty of perjury that they are citizens, and some states check for citizenship against federal databases.

Organizations including the left-leaning Brennan Center, the conservative Heritage Foundation and the libertarian Cato Institute that have examined the legal system, registration records or election offices for cases of citizenship fraud have found very few examples.

Maya King

Sept. 10, 2024, 10:26 p.m. ET2 hours ago

Maya KingReporting from Durham, N.C.

Harris has usually eschewed Republicans’ comments about her race as part of a “tired playbook.” Here, she responded directly to a question about it but started by calling the former president’s comments a “disgrace” rather than making it about her own background.

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Maya King

Sept. 10, 2024, 10:25 p.m. ET2 hours ago

Maya KingReporting from Durham, N.C.

Harris’s response to a question about race in America was a bit halting. But on the topic of the Central Park Five, a group of Black and Latino men for whom Trump called for the death penalty, she found more solid footing, returning to the general themes of her campaign message.

Ben Protess

Sept. 10, 2024, 10:25 p.m. ET2 hours ago

Ben Protess

I “have built it into many, many billions of dollars; many, many billions.”

— Former President Donald J. Trump

This is exaggerated.

Trump habitually exaggerates his wealth, so much so that the New York attorney general’s office sued him for fraudulently inflating his net worth, a case that led to a more than $450 million judgment against him.

In reality, he has about $400 million in cash, stocks and bonds, though if the New York case is upheld on appeal, it will essentially wipe out his liquid assets.

Much of his purported net worth is tied up in the real estate he owns. So when Trump says he is worth many billions, he appears to be referring to the value of that property. But property values fluctuate, and there is no reliable assessment of his assets. He also has a roughly $2 billion stake in his social media company, though he can’t yet access those shares and their value has plummeted in recent months.

Maya King

Sept. 10, 2024, 10:24 p.m. ET2 hours ago

Maya KingReporting from Durham, N.C.

Harris, who is Black and Indian, has not spoken at length about her heritage and background since becoming the Democratic presidential nominee, even as the former president has called her Blackness into question.

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Alan Rappeport

Sept. 10, 2024, 10:24 p.m. ET2 hours ago

Alan RappeportReporting on economic policy

As the conversation shifted to race and politics, Trump was asked why he had questioned Harris's racial identity. “I don’t care what she is,” Trump says, adding that he had read that she was not Black. Harris calls it a “tragedy” that Trump tries to use race to divide Americans.

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Michael Crowley

Sept. 10, 2024, 10:24 p.m. ET2 hours ago

Michael Crowley

“She wouldn’t even meet with Netanyahu when he went to Congress to make a very important speech. She refused to be there because she was at a sorority party of hers.”

— Former President Donald J. Trump

This is misleading.

It is true that when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel addressed Congress on July 19, Vice President Kamala Harris did not attend the speech. On that day she delivered a long-planned speech in Indiana to the national conference for Zeta Phi Beta, one of the country’s historically Black sororities. But Harris returned to Washington the next day for a meeting with Netanyahu.

Maggie Haberman

Sept. 10, 2024, 10:23 p.m. ET2 hours ago

Maggie HabermanReporting on the 2024 presidential race

Trump essentially repeated his false claim that Harris suddenly started calling herself Black.

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Maggie Haberman

Sept. 10, 2024, 10:20 p.m. ET2 hours ago

Maggie HabermanReporting on the 2024 presidential race

Harris reminded people that Trump invited the Taliban to Camp David shortly before the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. She made this point on the eve of yet another anniversary of that day.

David E. Sanger

Sept. 10, 2024, 10:21 p.m. ET2 hours ago

David E. SangerReporting on foreign policy

Muir turns to Afghanistan, Biden and Harris’s worst moment in national security. Harris said she agreed with Biden’s decision to pull out of Afghanistan, and argued that “as of today, there is not one member of the American military” in active combat today. She avoided discussion of how the withdrawal was executed. But she comes back by recalling Trump’s direct negotiations with the Taliban and his desire to invite them — a terrorist group — to Camp David. “He does not again appreciate the role and the responsibility of the president of the United States.”

Jonathan Weisman

Sept. 10, 2024, 10:20 p.m. ET2 hours ago

Jonathan WeismanReporting on the 2024 presidential race

With only 15 minutes left, the debate has stayed on foreign policy, going into depth on the war in Ukraine, then segueing into Afghanistan. Harris hit Trump hard and framed him as a toady to Vladimir Putin, who “would be sitting in Kyiv right now” had Trump been president. But this is an area where Trump has some strength, playing on the war-weariness of the country. Still, Trump refused to say he wanted Ukraine to win.

David E. Sanger

Sept. 10, 2024, 10:19 p.m. ET2 hours ago

David E. SangerReporting on foreign policy

Harris turns to a central difference in national security: whether the United States fights for democracy, or backs authoritarians. Trump has done nothing tonight to talk about American values or principles. Only deal making.

Michael Grynbaum

Sept. 10, 2024, 10:19 p.m. ET2 hours ago

Michael GrynbaumReporting from Philadelphia

These ABC moderators have not been shy about fact-checking Trump’s baseless claims. And Trump’s allies, watching at home, have not been shy about criticizing the ABC moderators for what they perceive as a bias against their candidate. On social media, Trump’s son Donald Jr. used the word “hack” to refer to the moderators. To be clear, Trump’s campaign agreed to the terms of this debate, including the choice of moderators.

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Jess Bidgood

Sept. 10, 2024, 10:18 p.m. ET2 hours ago

Jess BidgoodReporting on the 2024 presidential race

When Trump speaks, Harris often directs her gaze toward him. When she speaks, Trump typically stares straight ahead. He shrugs and shakes his head. But he is generally not watching her while she speaks.

David E. Sanger

Sept. 10, 2024, 10:18 p.m. ET2 hours ago

David E. SangerReporting on foreign policy

“Everything they said was weak and stupid,’’ Trump says, insisting that Harris was sent in to talk to Putin. She never was. That task was given to William Burns, the C.I.A. chief — and he was there to warn Putin, not to negotiate with him.

Katie Rogers

Sept. 10, 2024, 10:18 p.m. ET2 hours ago

Katie RogersReporting on the 2024 presidential race

Harris has spent a lot of her time as vice president building out a portfolio that has included extensive work on foreign policy, which, of course, has been one of Biden’s focuses as president.

Julian E. Barnes

Sept. 10, 2024, 10:17 p.m. ET2 hours ago

Julian E. Barnes

“Putin endorsed her last week, said, ‘I hope she wins.’”

— Former President Donald J. Trump

This is misleading.

Most observers believe that Vladimir V. Putin’s comments on Sept. 5 that he supported Vice President Kamala Harris were said in jest. The U.S. intelligence agencies have assessed that Putin supports the election of Trump. Documents released as part of an indictment against two employees of the Russian state broadcaster show the Kremlin developed a plan to influence swing state voters in favor of Trump. The Kremlin believes Trump will cut back, or end, U.S. military aid to Ukraine. While Trump has claimed that the invasion of Ukraine would not have taken place if he were president, there is little evidence that he would have taken action to deter Russia.

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David E. Sanger

Sept. 10, 2024, 10:16 p.m. ET2 hours ago

David E. SangerReporting on foreign policy

Harris says if Trump was president, “he would just give it up” on the world stage. She goes on to describe meeting President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine at the Munich Security Conference in the days before the war broke out — though she does not mention that it was a tense and difficult meeting. “If Donald Trump were president, Putin would be in Kyiv now,’’ and would move on to Poland next. This is one of the starkest differences in American foreign policy in a presidential debate since Nixon and Kennedy.

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Alan Rappeport

Sept. 10, 2024, 10:17 p.m. ET2 hours ago

Alan RappeportReporting on economic policy

Harris suggested that Polish Americans in Pennsylvania, a top battleground state, should be worried that he would allow Russia to invade Poland next and described Putin as a “dictator who would eat you for lunch.”

Adam Nagourney

Sept. 10, 2024, 10:16 p.m. ET2 hours ago

Adam NagourneyReporting on the 2024 presidential race

Harris responded to Trump’s attacks on Biden by noting that Trump is running against her. But she is not defending Biden, for the most part, against Trump’s attacks, and she is also not trying to explicitly distance herself from Biden. It is a clear strategic decision on how to deal with the unpopular president.

Maggie Haberman

Sept. 10, 2024, 10:15 p.m. ET2 hours ago

Maggie HabermanReporting on the 2024 presidential race

Trump has not said anything tonight that would surprise most people who’ve watched him for the last eight years, with the exception of refusing to rule out signing a national abortion ban, which will almost certainly end up in ads. But he has demonstrated again that it is very, very difficult for him to be disciplined for any sustained period of time.

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Jonathan Swan

Sept. 10, 2024, 10:14 p.m. ET2 hours ago

Jonathan SwanReporting on the 2024 presidential race

Trump is now back on territory his advisers want to hit Harris and Biden on — the wars around the world unfolding during their administration. Trump can correctly point out that Putin did not seize additional territory during his presidency. He did under Obama in 2014, and then Biden in 2022.

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Zolan Kanno-Youngs

Sept. 10, 2024, 10:14 p.m. ET2 hours ago

Zolan Kanno-Youngs

“Crime here is up and through the roof.”

— Former President Donald J. Trump

False.

The claim is factually incorrect. While there was an increase in crime during the pandemic, various studies have shown violent crime has now dropped to the lowest level in decades. Despite public perception of lawlessness, violent crime was higher in 2020 under Mr. Trump than under President Biden so far. The violent crime rate was 380.7 per 100,000 people in 2022, according to police agencies’ data gathered by the F.B.I. That was a lower rate than in all but three years — 2013, 2014 and 2015 — since 1985. Preliminary analysis from the F.B.I. suggested that violent crime decreased 15.2 percent in the first quarter of 2024 from the same period in 2023, with an even greater drop of 18 percent in cities with more than one million people. Still, some studies have found that shoplifting and motor vehicle theft increased in 2023.

Jess Bidgood

Sept. 10, 2024, 10:14 p.m. ET2 hours ago

Jess BidgoodReporting on the 2024 presidential race

Trump, who is trying to steady himself after spending much of the debate’s first hour on defense, returned to territory where he’s been successful in the past: attacking President Biden. Harris had a quick retort. “You’re not running against Joe Biden,” she said. “You’re running against me.”

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Alan Feuer

Sept. 10, 2024, 10:13 p.m. ET2 hours ago

Alan Feuer

All of Trump’s legal challenges to the outcome of the 2020 election were dismissed on “technicalities” or the basis of “standing.”

— Former President Donald J. Trump

This is false.

While some of the challenges to the last election were rejected on the basis of standing — that is, on the issue of whether the plaintiffs had the legal right to question the results and assert they had been harmed — there were some cases that were decided on the merits of whether there were improprieties in the race. And none of those cases were decided in Mr. Trump’s favor. One of the merits cases was decided in Wisconsin by Brett H. Ludwig, a federal judge appointed by Mr. Trump. “This court has allowed the plaintiff the chance to make his case,” Judge Ludwig wrote in his ruling, “and he has lost on the merits.”

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Ben Protess

Sept. 10, 2024, 10:13 p.m. ET2 hours ago

Ben Protess

“Every one of those cases was started by them against their political opponent.”

— Former President Donald J. Trump

False.

Trump’s claims that the Biden administration orchestrated his four criminal cases, including the one in Manhattan that led to his conviction in May on charges of falsifying records to cover up a sex scandal, has no basis in fact.

The Manhattan investigation began while Trump, not President Biden, was in office. The case was brought by the district attorney, Alvin L. Bragg, a local Democrat who does not answer to Biden or Vice President Kamala Harris. The same goes for Trump’s criminal case in Georgia, where a district attorney accused him of trying to overturn the 2020 election results in that state. And Trump’s two federal cases were brought by a special counsel, a semi-independent prosecutor who is accountable to the attorney general. While the attorney general is chosen by the president, the White House has no direct influence over the special counsel.

Katie Glueck

Sept. 10, 2024, 10:12 p.m. ET2 hours ago

Katie Glueck

Harris blames Trump for state abortion bans in contentious debate.

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Vice President Kamala Harris laced into former President Donald J. Trump on Tuesday over his role in the overturning of Roe v. Wade, blaming him for subsequent state-level abortion bans that, she said, have had painful consequences for many American women and their families.

In the first true clash of their debate in Philadelphia, Ms. Harris noted that it was Mr. Trump’s appointees for the Supreme Court who helped eliminate the federal right to an abortion, leading to what she referred to as “Trump abortion bans.”

“One does not have to abandon their faith or deeply held beliefs to agree, the government and Donald Trump, certainly, should not be telling a woman what to do with her body,” Ms. Harris said.

Mr. Trump reiterated that he supports exceptions for cases of rape, incest or when the life of the mother is at risk, though some state bans allow for virtually no exceptions.

Asked whether he would veto a national abortion ban, Mr. Trump declined to answer. When a moderator noted that his running mate, Senator JD Vance of Ohio, had said he would veto it if it came to his desk, Mr. Trump replied, “I didn’t discuss it with JD, in all fairness.” At a different point, though, he said, “I’m not signing a ban and there’s no reason to sign a ban.”

Ms. Harris, a former prosecutor who began her career specializing in prosecuting child sexual assault cases, described what she saw as the dangerous outcomes from some of the state bans in place now.

“Understand what that means: a survivor of a crime of violation to their body does not have the right to make a decision about what happens to their body next,” she said, a reality in some states that she called “immoral.”

In some cases, she said, a young victim of incest could be forced to carry a pregnancy to term. In other cases, she said, women who wanted their pregnancies have struggled to receive care when facing serious health complications.

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Alan Rappeport

Sept. 10, 2024, 10:11 p.m. ET2 hours ago

Alan RappeportReporting on economic policy

Asked if he wants Ukraine to win the war against Russia, Trump says only, “I want the war to stop.”

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David E. Sanger

Sept. 10, 2024, 10:13 p.m. ET2 hours ago

David E. SangerReporting on foreign policy

Trump did not answer the question — and instead argued that NATO has to “pay up.” In fact, Europe is paying extraordinarily large amounts for Ukraine — more than the U.S. by some measures. Trump did not say how he would end the war — just that he would “speak to one, speak to the other,’’ arguing that Biden did not negotiate. Trump insists he would “get it done,’’ and never talks about defending Ukraine from an invasion of its borders.

David E. Sanger

Sept. 10, 2024, 10:10 p.m. ET2 hours ago

David E. SangerReporting on foreign policy

Somehow Trump seems to believe that Biden and Harris supported the Nord Stream 2 pipeline. In fact, they worked for months to persuade Germany to agree to kill the project if Russia invaded Ukraine — which is exactly what happened.

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Linda Qiu

Sept. 10, 2024, 10:10 p.m. ET2 hours ago

Linda Qiu

“And when she ran, she was the first one to leave because she failed” in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary.

— Former President Donald J. Trump

False.

Harris dropped out of the Democratic primary in December 2019, which came as a surprise given expectations surrounding her candidacy. But her exit was preceded by more than a dozen others, including prominent members of Congress, former and sitting governors and the mayor of New York City.

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Michael C. Bender

Sept. 10, 2024, 10:10 p.m. ET2 hours ago

Michael C. Bender

Harris appears more interested in talking to voters than battling Trump.

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Vice President Kamala Harris stood just a few feet from former President Donald J. Trump on Tuesday, but she often seemed more interested in talking to viewers at home.

Ms. Harris’s approach appeared to signal that fighting with Mr. Trump was less important than speaking to voters. And by repeatedly speaking about the former president as if he were not on the same debate stage, she advanced a campaign strategy of portraying the Republican ticket as weird and out-of-touch with everyday Americans.

The clearest example of Ms. Harris’s approach came when she invited viewers to attend one of her competitor’s trademark political rallies.

“You will see during the course of his rallies, he talks about fictional characters like Hannibal Lecter,” Ms. Harris said. “He will talk about windmills cause cancer. And what you will also notice is that people start leaving his rallies early out of exhaustion and boredom. And I will tell you, the one thing you will not hear him talk about is you. You will not hear him talk about your needs, your dreams and your desires, and I’ll tell you, I believe you deserve a president who actually puts you first, and I pledge to you that I will.”

Mr. Trump quickly responded — but not to dispute her criticism that he was not tuned into voters’ needs. Instead, he defended the size of his rally crowds.

“People don’t leave my rallies,” Mr. Trump said. “We have the biggest rallies, the most incredible rallies in the history of politics.”

He concluded his answer by claiming, without evidence, that in Springfield, Ohio, “they’re eating the dogs — the people that came in — they’re eating the cats. They’re eating the pets that live there. This is what’s happening in our country, and it’s a shame.”

Linda Qiu

Sept. 10, 2024, 10:08 p.m. ET2 hours ago

Linda Qiu

“Donald Trump, the candidate, has said in this election there will be a blood bath if this, and the outcome of this election, is not to his liking.”

— Vice President Kamala Harris

This needs context.

Harris is correct that Trump warned of a “blood bath” if he did not win the 2024 election, but Trump has contended that he was speaking about an economic blood bath and was focused on competition from Chinese electric vehicles.

Here is the full quote of what Trump said at rally in March, so readers can decide for themselves.

“If you’re listening, President Xi, and you and I are friends, but he understands the way I deal, those big monster car manufacturing plants that you’re building in Mexico right now, and you think you’re going to get that, you’re going to not hire Americans and you’re going to sell the cars to us, we’re going to put a 100 percent tariff on every single car that comes across the line, and you’re not going to be able to sell those cars if I get elected,” he said.

“Now, if I don’t get elected, it’s going to be a blood bath. That’s going to be the least of it. It’s going to be a blood bath for the country. That’ll be the least of it. But they’re not going to sell those cars,” he continued.

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Jonathan Weisman

Sept. 10, 2024, 10:06 p.m. ET2 hours ago

Jonathan WeismanReporting on the 2024 presidential race

Moving into the final half-hour, the debate has moved into foreign policy, but that has not meant it has become more substantive. Asked specifically how she would end the war in Gaza, Harris could only offer that she “would work around the clock.” She hit out at Trump in the most personal terms, saying world leaders laughed at him and military leaders called him a disgrace. Trump also did not offer a solution in Gaza. He simply repeated his phrase that the war would never have happened had he been president, nor would Russia have invaded Ukraine. Trump leaned on Hungary’s autocratic leader, Viktor Orban, to back him up. Harris pressed her case, calling him a “disgrace.”

David E. Sanger

Sept. 10, 2024, 10:05 p.m. ET2 hours ago

David E. SangerReporting on foreign policy

“Putin endorsed her last week,’’ Trump said. Putin did say he supported Harris because Biden said the world should — a classic piece of trolling. Trump cast it as a serious statement; no one else did, especially given Russia’s disinformation campaign on Trump’s behalf.

Luke Broadwater

Sept. 10, 2024, 10:05 p.m. ET2 hours ago

Luke Broadwater

“I had nothing to do” with Jan. 6

— Former President Donald J. Trump

False.

Trump and his allies spread lies for months about vast fraud that they falsely claimed stole the 2020 election from him. His supporters then organized a large rally near the White House designed to pressure Congress to overturn his loss. Trump encouraged the crowd to attend, promising it would be “wild.” He urged his supporters to march to the Capitol, where the rally turned into a violent riot that injured about 150 police officers. He faces federal felony charges of plotting to overturn the 2020 election and similar charges in Georgia.

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Jess Bidgood

Sept. 10, 2024, 10:04 p.m. ET2 hours ago

Jess BidgoodReporting on the 2024 presidential race

When he debated Hillary Clinton in 2016, Trump returned, again and again, to a single core message about Clinton: that she was a fixture of a political establishment that was responsible for the country’s ills. So far tonight, he’s not focusing on a core message against Harris.

Brad Plumer

Sept. 10, 2024, 10:04 p.m. ET2 hours ago

Brad Plumer

“We had the largest increase in domestic oil production in history, because of an approach that recognizes that we cannot over-rely on foreign oil.”

— Vice President Kamala Harris

This needs context.

U.S. crude oil production has indeed risen to record highs this year, though experts say that has little to do with actions taken by the Biden administration. Most oil production has occurred on private and state lands, where the federal government has little oversight. At times, President Biden has actually tried to restrict drilling on federal lands and waters in the name of tackling climate change, but the courts have frequently limited his ability to do so.

Alan Rappeport

Sept. 10, 2024, 10:04 p.m. ET2 hours ago

Alan RappeportReporting on economic policy

We are an hour into the debate and the candidates are taking a commercial break.

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Alan Rappeport

Sept. 10, 2024, 10:04 p.m. ET2 hours ago

Alan RappeportReporting on economic policy

Harris tells Trump that she has talked to military leaders who worked with him who say, "You're a disgrace."

Maya King

Sept. 10, 2024, 10:03 p.m. ET2 hours ago

Maya KingReporting from Durham, N.C.

Trump said that Harris was attending “a sorority party” instead of meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli leader. The vice president was attending the grand boule for the Zeta Phi Beta sorority, a historically Black Greek organization. Sororities and fraternities have been a key organizing force for Harris since she became the Democratic nominee.

Katie Rogers

Sept. 10, 2024, 10:01 p.m. ET2 hours ago

Katie RogersReporting on the 2024 presidential race

Trump is notably focused on the past. He has so far said very little about what he would do with a second term aside from saying he would end the Russia-Ukraine war before taking office. He did not offer details.

Michael Grynbaum

Sept. 10, 2024, 10:01 p.m. ET2 hours ago

Michael GrynbaumReporting from Philadelphia

It is striking how Muir and Davis, in calm and authoritative tones, have constructed factual guardrails around several of Trump’s baseless claims. Trump rarely sits for interviews with mainstream news anchors outside the partisan environs of cable news. The ABC anchors are providing a model here for real-time fact-checking of the candidates that we have not glimpsed in previous debates.

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David E. Sanger

Sept. 10, 2024, 10:01 p.m. ET2 hours ago

David E. SangerReporting on foreign policy

Harris repeats what she said at the convention — that she would defend Israel, especially against Iran. She embraced a two-state solution, which Trump would not. Trump repeats that if he was president, Putin would not have invaded Ukraine, and repeats that Harris “hates Israel” and that “Israel will be gone” if she is president. That is a completely unsupported prediction.

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Adam Nagourney

Sept. 10, 2024, 10:02 p.m. ET2 hours ago

Adam NagourneyReporting on the 2024 presidential race

Trump’s accusation that Harris hates Israel might be complicated to land, given that her husband, Doug Emhoff, is Jewish, and has been talking about his Jewish identity and loyalty to Israel across the country since she emerged as the nominee.

Maggie Haberman

Sept. 10, 2024, 10:00 p.m. ET2 hours ago

Maggie HabermanReporting on the 2024 presidential race

This debate so far is a jumble of missed opportunities for Trump. Harris mostly elided answering the question on her flipped positions from 2019, but she has clearly angered Trump, who is now mocking Harris as wanting to go to “a sorority party,” an answer that makes little sense.

David E. Sanger

Sept. 10, 2024, 10:00 p.m. ET2 hours ago

David E. SangerReporting on foreign policy

It seems remarkable that the foreign leader Trump cites as one of his greatest supporters is Viktor Orban of Hungary, an authoritarian who has suppressed free speech and all dissent, and openly admired Putin’s Russia. He names none of America’s closest allies, who fear that Trump will undercut — or withdraw from — NATO.

Adam Nagourney

Sept. 10, 2024, 9:58 p.m. ET3 hours ago

Adam NagourneyReporting on the 2024 presidential race

This debate has become very much about Trump’s style and personality — anger being a big part of that — because of Trump and the way he is responding to Harris and the moderators. Not so much about their plans, but about who they are.

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Jim Tankersley

Sept. 10, 2024, 9:57 p.m. ET3 hours ago

Jim Tankersley

“The Trump administration resulted in a trade deficit — one of the highest we’ve ever seen in the history of America.”

— Vice President Kamala Harris

This is misleading.

In 2020, at the end of Donald J. Trump’s tenure in office, the trade deficit — the difference between how much the United States imports and how much it exports — was about $650 billion. That was lower than four years of the George W. Bush administration, and the first three years of the Biden-Harris administration.

Linda Qiu

Sept. 10, 2024, 9:57 p.m. ET3 hours ago

Linda Qiu

“She went out in Minnesota and wanted to let criminals that killed people, that burned down Minneapolis.”

— Former President Donald J. Trump

This is misleading.

After the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis and the protests that ensued, Vice President Kamala Harris posted on social media in June 2020 asking supporters “to help post bail for those protesting on the ground in Minnesota” by donating to the Minnesota Freedom Fund, a bail fund.

The fund used some of those money to bail out people who committed serious crimes. But Ms. Harris did not specifically call to release murderers from behind bars.

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Katie Rogers

Sept. 10, 2024, 9:57 p.m. ET3 hours ago

Katie RogersReporting on the 2024 presidential race

Harris just really went after Trump’s stature on the world stage and said that world and military leaders had told her that Trump was a “disgrace.” Trump is now yelling into the microphone as he responds.

Jonathan Swan

Sept. 10, 2024, 9:57 p.m. ET3 hours ago

Jonathan SwanReporting on the 2024 presidential race

Almost every line Harris delivers tonight appears aimed at getting under Trump’s skin. He started out calm but from the moment she brought up his crowd sizes he has been angry.

Michael D. Shear

Sept. 10, 2024, 9:56 p.m. ET3 hours ago

Michael D. Shear

“Remember that she was the border czar. She doesn’t want to be called the border czar because she’s embarrassed by the border.”

— Former President Donald J. Trump

False.

Harris was never appointed “border czar,” nor was she tasked with addressing border security. Rather, she had a role in addressing the root causes of migration in Central American countries. Moreover, she did visit the border in June 2021, where she toured an immigration facility in El Paso.

Alan Feuer

Sept. 10, 2024, 9:56 p.m. ET3 hours ago

Alan Feuer

“By the way, Joe Biden was found essentially guilty on the documents case.”

— Former President Donald J. Trump

False.

A special counsel, Robert K. Hur, was appointed by Attorney General Merrick B. Garland to determine whether there was sufficient evidence to prosecute President Biden after his aides reported that classified documents from his time as vice president had been found in his possession. Hur spent months investigating Biden and in February issued a report in which he declined to bring charges against Biden for a number of reasons. Among them was that Biden, unlike Trump, cooperated with the federal inquiry into his handling of classified documents.

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Alan Rappeport

Sept. 10, 2024, 9:55 p.m. ET3 hours ago

Alan RappeportReporting on economic policy

Harris brought out another line intended to irk Trump, saying that he was “fired by 81 million people” and was still having trouble processing it. It's repurposing a well-known phrase attributed to Trump’s “Apprentice” days.

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Donald Trump was fired by 81 million people. So let’s be clear about that. And clearly, he is having a very difficult time processing that. But we cannot afford to have a president of the United States who attempts, as he did in the past, to upend the will of the voters in a free and fair election.

And clearly, he is having

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Kate Zernike

Sept. 10, 2024, 9:55 p.m. ET3 hours ago

Kate Zernike

“Her vice-presidential pick says abortion in the ninth month is absolutely fine. He also says execution after birth. It’s execution, no longer abortion, because the baby is born is, OK, and that’s not OK with me.”

— Former President Donald J. Trump

False.

Abortion terminates a pregnancy, so “abortion after birth” is a contradiction. Killing a child after birth is infanticide, which is illegal in all 50 states. Vice President Kamala Harris has said she wants to restore the abortion rights established in Roe v. Wade. Roe, the 1973 Supreme Court decision overturned in 2022, allowed states to prohibit abortion in the third trimester — the seventh, eighth and ninth months of pregnancy — so long as they made exceptions to save the health and life of the mother. “Late term” is defined as 41 weeks, or just beyond nine months. According to federal data, less than 1 percent of all abortions take place after the 20th week of pregnancy; 93 percent are at or before 13 weeks. Minnesota, where the Democrat vice-presidential nominee, Tim Walz, is governor, is one of the few states to allow abortion at any stage of pregnancy. But allowing abortions at that stage does not mean that doctors perform them. State data for 2022, the most recent available, shows that of the 12,175 abortions in the state that year, only two happened between 25 and 30 weeks of pregnancy, and none after the 30th week of pregnancy, which is roughly the start of the third trimester.

Jonathan Weisman

Sept. 10, 2024, 9:54 p.m. ET3 hours ago

Jonathan WeismanReporting on the 2024 presidential race

The debate is nearing the end of its first hour, and a pattern is clear. The moderators have brought up tough subjects for the former president, such as the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. He has tried to segue back to immigration and the border. Harris has tried to latch onto the question, then exhort viewers to “turn the page” and get beyond the “chaos.” But no question, Trump has held the microphone more, in large part because he has been on the defensive.

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Elizabeth Dias

Sept. 10, 2024, 9:54 p.m. ET3 hours ago

Elizabeth Dias

“And as far as the abortion ban, no, I’m not in favor of abortion ban.”

— Former President Donald J. Trump

This is misleading.

Trump privately expressed support for a 16-week abortion ban earlier this year, although he later reviewed polling suggesting it was problematic, and did not support it. His allies, including former Trump administration officials, have also planned new sweeping abortion restrictions that do not require a national ban passed by Congress. One plan includes enforcing a long-dormant law from 1873, called the Comstock Act, to criminalize the shipping of any materials used in an abortion — including the medication used in the majority of abortions in America.

Jonathan Swan

Sept. 10, 2024, 9:54 p.m. ET3 hours ago

Jonathan SwanReporting on the 2024 presidential race

What’s happening right now is what the Trump team wanted to avoid. Trump, yelling into the microphone, is trying to relitigate the results of the 2020 election.

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Katie Rogers

Sept. 10, 2024, 9:52 p.m. ET3 hours ago

Katie RogersReporting on the 2024 presidential race

The main contrast between the two candidates right now seems to be that Trump is focused on (and angry about) the past and Harris is focused on Trump.

Alan Rappeport

Sept. 10, 2024, 9:53 p.m. ET3 hours ago

Alan RappeportReporting on economic policy

Trump, who has been frustrated that Biden dropped out of the race, has repeatedly sprinkled in digs at him during the debate. He just suggested that Harris would need to wake Biden up and get him out of bed at 4 p.m. to sign hypothetical border legislation.

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Lisa Friedman

Sept. 10, 2024, 9:51 p.m. ET3 hours ago

Lisa Friedman

“Fracking? She’s been against it for 12 years.”

— Former President Donald J. Trump

This is misleading.

During her first presidential campaign in 2019, Harris endorsed a ban on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, a process used to extract oil and natural gas from bedrock. She also challenged federal approvals of offshore fracking when she was attorney general of California. When she became President Biden’s running mate in 2020, she distanced herself from that position, and now says she no longer supports a ban on fracking.

Katie Rogers

Sept. 10, 2024, 9:51 p.m. ET3 hours ago

Katie RogersReporting on the 2024 presidential race

It is striking to hear Harris talk about the deadly rally in Charlottesville compared with how President Biden used to talk about that episode. Biden talked about Charlottesville as a moment that drew him into the race. Harris used a mention of the rally as a springboard to tell Americans reluctant to vote for her that there is a place for them within her campaign.

Jonathan Swan

Sept. 10, 2024, 9:51 p.m. ET3 hours ago

Jonathan SwanReporting on the 2024 presidential race

Trump is visibly furious with the ABC moderators, who have been fact-checking him tonight. Privately, Trump toyed with dropping out of the debate and was complaining about the network being unfair to him. He is suing one of the network’s star anchors, George Stephanopoulos.

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Adam Nagourney

Sept. 10, 2024, 9:50 p.m. ET3 hours ago

Adam NagourneyReporting on the 2024 presidential race

Harris is not holding back on anything tonight: Trump’s indictments. His rallies. Jan. 6. It’s all a real reminder of how different an opponent Kamala Harris is from the Democratic candidate Trump faced onstage in late June.

Alan Rappeport

Sept. 10, 2024, 9:49 p.m. ET3 hours ago

Alan RappeportReporting on economic policy

After Harris accused Trump of getting $400 million from his father, Trump says that he was given a “fraction of that” and turned it into a multibillion-dollar empire. But a Times investigation found that he received at least $413 million in today’s dollars from his father’s real estate empire, much of it through tax dodges in the 1990s.

Maggie Haberman

Sept. 10, 2024, 9:48 p.m. ET3 hours ago

Maggie HabermanReporting on the 2024 presidential race

Muir tried twice to get Trump to answer about his own actions that day. He deflected.

Jess Bidgood

Sept. 10, 2024, 9:48 p.m. ET3 hours ago

Jess BidgoodReporting on the 2024 presidential race

Trump shook his head slightly as David Muir asked him about Jan. 6. He raised his voice in responding to Muir, claiming he had told his supporters to act “peacefully and patriotically.” Then, he began practically yelling, attributing blame for Jan. 6 to former Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the mayor of Washington, D.C.

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Is there anything

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Hamed Aleaziz

Sept. 10, 2024, 9:45 p.m. ET3 hours ago

Hamed Aleaziz

“In Springfield, they’re eating the dogs. The people that came in, they’re eating the cats. They’re eating — they’re eating the pets of the people that live there.”

— Former President Donald J. Trump

False.

A spokeswoman for the city of Springfield, Ohio, said this week that despite viral social media posts that have been promoted by Trump and his supporters, “there have been no credible reports or specific claims of pets being harmed, injured or abused by individuals within the immigrant community.” A Clark County, Ohio, official said that they “have absolutely no evidence of this happening.”

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Maggie Haberman

Sept. 10, 2024, 9:44 p.m. ET3 hours ago

Maggie HabermanReporting on the 2024 presidential race

“I’m talking now,” Trump said to Harris, asking, “Sound familiar?” He has been talking privately about not letting Harris have a moment as she did with Mike Pence in 2020, when she stopped him after he cut her off.

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She gave up at least 12,

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Önder Özar Diplomasi Sevgisi

Tuesday, September 10, 2024

Debate Live Updates: Harris Put Trump on Defensive, and Kept Him There

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