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Good morning, I'm Taylor Wilson and today is Tuesday, September 10th, 2024. This is the excerpt.

Today the presidential debate is here.

Plus jury selection begins in the Tyry Nichols federal criminal trial

and the search continues for a Kentucky highway shooter.

Debate Day in America continues for a Kentucky highway shooter.

Debate day in America is here.

Tonight former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamla Harris will square off on the debate stage in Philadelphia.

I caught up with USA Today, chief political correspondent

Philip M Bailey for a look ahead. Philip, thank you for hopping on today. It's another big week for

politics. Absolutely, I have a good seeing you.

So you know, despite being Vice President and getting this big formal nomination at the

Convention last month, Kamala Harris is still really introducing herself and her policy

aims to some,

how big is this debate for her to present herself

and her work to the nation and what danger could still be in it for her?

I smoke with a few experts who've studied and looked at past presidential debates and many agree look

former president Trump this is going to be his seventh presidential debate I believe that's a record number

for any individual one of the number of debates he's participated in. So he's the veteran here. He knows his way around. He's a showman, of course. He has certainly done different antics in the past. He's known to lie personal insults throughout a lot of falsehoods in these debates

So there's going to be a lot of burden on the vice president who has no slouch when it comes to debating

You know she's a district attorney. She's a prosecutor. She's been the sitting vice president, she knows certainly how to handle herself as she did against Mike Pence in the 2020 vice presidential debate.

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