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Tamara Keith and Amy Walter on what to expect from the Trump-Harris debate

PBS News Hour - Segments

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4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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NPR's Tamara Keith and Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter join Geoff Bennett to discuss the latest political news, including a look ahead to Tuesday night's debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, what the candidates hope to accomplish and new polls showing the race is tied. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

And for more on the latest in the presidential race, including a look ahead to tomorrow night's debate,

0:05.3

we're joined by our Politics Monday duo, that's Amy Walter of the Cook political report with Amy Walter and Tamra Keith of NPR.

0:12.8

Great to see you both as always.

0:13.8

Good to be here.

0:14.8

So tomorrow is the first and so far only debate

0:17.9

between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump.

0:19.8

This is a potential campaign reset moment

0:22.4

as many voters tune in for the first time with what

0:25.2

56 days left to go until election day but who's counting? So Tam how are both sides preparing?

0:31.1

Well one thing that has stood out to me today for hearing

0:34.0

from both campaigns is that they are both talking up Donald Trump's ability to

0:38.6

debate. Both the Harris campaign and the Trump campaign say that he's hard to debate that he has a lot of experience the the Harris campaign is sort of talking down, they're not talking down her

0:55.5

ability but they're just tempering expectations because she's this person who

0:59.2

you know as a former prosecutor has had these standout debate moments.

1:02.9

She, you know, in various Senate hearings,

1:05.7

prosecuted the case asking tough questions.

1:08.4

And her campaign is trying to say,

1:11.1

temper those expectations.

1:12.7

Trump is this unique person who is difficult to debate,

1:16.7

who is unencumbered by facts, as she says.

1:19.7

And so watch out. You know, that's a little bit of working the refs, I think, from both of the campaigns.

1:27.1

And yeah, so working the refs.

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