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WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Unknowns of Harris or Trump as Commander in Chief

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Wall Street Journal

News, Society & Culture

4.22.8K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Donald Trump says he won't debate Kamala Harris a second time, yet the two candidates' foreign policy ideas are far from clear as the November election nears. So what should voters know about Trump's and Harris's respective positions on three major questions: Israel's war against Hamas, Ukraine's defense from Russia, and China's looming ambitions for Taiwan? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal,

0:21.0

this is Potomac Watch.

0:24.1

Donald Trump rules out another debate against Kamala Harris,

0:27.8

which means voters might go to the polls in November

0:30.6

with many questions still unanswered unanswered including how each of these

0:34.2

candidates would act around the world as America's commander-in-chief.

0:39.0

Welcome I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal. We're joined today by my colleagues

0:44.4

Kate Batchelder Odell and Elliot Kaufman. The debate about debates is back

0:50.3

started again after what was perceived by many analysts as a victory this

0:56.2

week. Kamil Harris at a campaign rally in Charlotte on Thursday said I

0:59.9

believe we owe it to the voters to have another debate because this election and what is at state could not be more important.

1:06.5

Donald Trump on the other hand in Tucson on Thursday said we've done two debates and because they were successful there will be no third debate and

1:15.4

Trump of course is counting as the first debate his knockout blow against President

1:20.0

Biden earlier this summer. The frustration for voters though is in trying to

1:24.8

predict how each of them would govern and one place that might be harder even than

1:28.9

the others is in foreign policy that Commander-in-Chief has wide discretion to act in the nation's interest.

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