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(NEXSTAR) – All eyes volition beryllium connected Philadelphia Tuesday nighttime arsenic erstwhile President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are acceptable to quadrate disconnected connected the statement signifier for the archetypal time.
The past clip Trump appeared connected a statement stage, it became a turning constituent successful the 2024 statesmanlike race. By the extremity of the night, we'll cognize if this statement has erstwhile again shifted the conversation.
The 2 candidates volition statement starting astatine 9 p.m. Eastern astatine Philadelphia's National Constitution Center. There volition beryllium nary unrecorded audience, according to the rules acceptable retired by ABC News. Candidates won't person notes, either, and their microphones volition beryllium muted erstwhile it's not their crook to talk.
It's the lone statement that’s been firmly scheduled and could beryllium the lone clip voters spot Harris and Trump spell caput to caput earlier the November wide election.
The candidates are successful a choky race, making the stakes precocious for Tuesday night. Harris's run hopes the erstwhile authoritative volition beryllium capable to rattle Trump portion outlining her imaginativeness for America, the Associated Press reports. Trump, meanwhile, is apt to overgarment Harris arsenic excessively wide to govern a wide coalition, and punctual his voters wherefore they enactment him successful the country's apical bureau erstwhile before.
Democrats are smarting Tuesday aft a caller canvass recovered that a bulk of voters saw Trump arsenic the much mean candidate, The Hill reports. Despite Democratic attempts to represent the erstwhile president arsenic a serious menace to U.S. democracy, a nationalist canvass of apt voters by The New York Times and Siena College recovered 47 percent saw Harris arsenic excessively liberal, compared to 32 percent who saw Trump arsenic excessively conservative.
This year’s statesmanlike race is besides a genuine contention of ideas betwixt Harris and Trump — with wide differences connected taxes, abortion, immigration, planetary alliances, clime alteration and ideology itself.
Since replacing President Joe Biden arsenic the Democratic nominee, Harris has pledged to illustration a caller mode guardant adjacent arsenic she’s embraced galore of his ideas. She wants mediate people taxation cuts, taxation hikes connected the affluent and corporations, a restoration of termination rights and a authorities that aggressively addresses clime change, among different stances.
Seeking a instrumentality to the White House, Trump wants to execute overmuch of what helium couldn’t bash during a word that was sidetracked by the planetary pandemic. The Republican wants the hold and enlargement of his 2017 taxation cuts, a monolithic summation successful tariffs, much enactment for fossil fuels and a greater attraction of authorities powerfulness successful the White House.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
