Harris-Trump Presidential Debate & Analysis

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🗓️ 11 September 2024

⏱️ 134 minutes

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Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump go head-to-head in their first presidential debate.

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0:00.0	MS NBC's special coverage of the presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump begins now.
0:15.0	It is 9 p.m. on the East Coast.
0:18.0	We are 60 seconds away from the presidential debate between
0:21.0	Vice President Kamala Harris and Donald Trump.
0:23.3	It is hosted by ABC News, moderated by David Muir and Lindsay Davis.
0:28.1	The two candidates have never met face-to-face, of course, the differences between them
0:33.0	couldn't be more stark.
0:34.2	If elected, Donald Trump would be
0:36.3	the oldest person ever inaugurated to the US presidency.
0:40.3	He has spent the last few days threatening to imprison his political enemies and
0:45.0	being derided even in very mainstream press for being just plainly incoherent.
0:48.9	Vice President Kamala Harris is a former prosecutor and U.S. Senator and Attorney General.
0:54.1	She has had lightning in a bottle running an as-yet short and highly energized campaign centered
1:01.5	around the theme of freedom.
1:04.5	We all know at this point that the stakes could absolutely not be higher.
1:08.9	Somebody says some version of that in every presidential race, but this year we all know deeply in our guts that that is true.
1:16.0	Here now is the presidential debate.
1:21.0	Good evening, I'm David Buellar, and thank you for joining us for tonight's ABC News presidential debate.
1:25.6	We want to welcome viewers watching on ABC and around the world tonight.
1:29.6	Vice President Kamala Harris and President Donald Trump are just moments away from taking the stage in this unprecedented. President campaigns with election day now less than two months away.
1:43.6	For Vice President Kamala Harris, this is her first debate since President Biden withdrew
1:47.6	from the race on July 21st.
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