From New York, this is Democracy Now.

Our elections are bad.

And a lot of these illegal immigrants coming in, they're trying to get them to vote.

They can't even speak English, they don't even know what country they're in practically.

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. With election day eight weeks away

Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump's

spar in their first and only scheduled debate.

We'll air excerpts and speak with Professor Carol Anderson,

Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz,

former presidential candidate Ralph Nader, investigative journalist Gene Guerrero,

and Amy Littlefield, abortion access correspondent at the nation.

All that and more coming up.

Welcome to Democracy Now, Democracy Now.org, the War and Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman.

Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump took to the stage in Philadelphia Tuesday evening for their first

and only scheduled presidential debate.

The event was hosted by ABC News and did not include any third-party candidates.

Harris repeatedly put Trump on the defensive as they debated abortion, immigration,

Israel's war on Gaza, race, January 6th and other issues.

Donald Trump left us the worst unemployment since the Great Depression.

Donald Trump left us the worst public health epidemic in a century.

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