Good evening. I'm Amman-N-Avaz. And I'm Jeff Bennett on the news hour tonight.

Former President Donald Trump reverses course and agrees to debate Vice President Kamala Harris who's gaining in the polls.

A look at the stakes and the changing electoral map.

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi discusses her new book and weighs in on Democrats chances of victory in the

upcoming election. We felt confident before what happened the last three weeks

but after that and since this new campaign, members are even more encouraged.

And one year after fires devastated parts of Hawaii residents there are rebuilding, but still

see a long road ahead. Welcome to the news hour. A debate has been set between former President Trump and

Vice President Harris. ABC News says it will host the two candidates in a head-to-head match-up on September 10th.

That news came as the presidential hopefuls and their running mates continued on the campaign trail today from a Michigan

Union Hall to the gilded halls of Maralago. Well thank you very much. Donald

Trump today held his first major campaign events since Vice President Kamala Harris announced her pick of

Minnesota Governor Tim Wall's as her running mate.

There's certainly never been anybody so liberal like these two.

For nearly 10 minutes the former president ticked through a litany of now familiar grievances and unfounded and false claims

taking particular issue with the reporter's question about the Harris campaign's crowd sizes.

I have 10 times 20 times 30 times the crowd size.

He compared the crowd size of his ellipse speech on January 6th to that of Dr Martin Luther King Jr's famous I Have a Dream

Speech and when asked why he's been off the campaign trail for days offered this.

Because I'm leading by a lot and because I'm letting their convention go through and I am

campaigning a lot. I'm doing tremendous amounts of taping here. We have commercials

that are at a level I don't think that anybody's ever done before.

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