Where Kamala Harris, Donald Trump stand on key issues heading into ABC News debate

Vice President Kamala Harris and erstwhile President Donald Trump volition conscionable for the archetypal clip connected Tuesday for a statesmanlike debate hosted by ABC News.

The 2 are facing disconnected astatine a pivotal time, with conscionable weeks until Election Day and days earlier immoderate states statesman the aboriginal voting process.

The ABC News statesmanlike statement volition instrumentality spot connected Sept. 10 astatine 9 p.m. EDT and aerial connected ABC and watercourse connected ABC News Live, Disney+ and Hulu.

Hot-button governmental issues that are apt to beryllium discussed by Harris and Trump see the economy, immigration, reproductive rights, crime, and more.

Here is simply a little look astatine wherever each of them basal connected cardinal election-year topics arsenic reflected successful caller ABC News/Ipsos polling.

Economy, inflation

Trump has been a vocal professional of the Biden-Harris administration's handling of the economy, saying their policies are to blasted for inflation, which reached a 40-year precocious successful 2022 but has since cooled to 2.9% year-over-year arsenic of July.

On policy, he's pledged to chopped costs by restoring "energy independence" done drilling much lipid and lowering state prices. He's besides said helium would trim the nationalist debt, destruct regulations and instrumentality a assortment of taxation cuts for home corporations arsenic good arsenic tariffs connected overseas imports.

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Harris has presented a program for what she's calling an "opportunity economy" that builds connected what the administration's done connected cause pricing and the Child Tax Credit but besides goes further connected respective fronts.

Her connection includes $25,000 successful down-payment enactment for first-time homeowners, operation of 3 cardinal caller lodging units, raising the minimum wage and a national prohibition connected firm price-gouging connected nutrient and groceries. She's besides pitched a $50,000 taxation payment for caller tiny businesses and a little semipermanent superior gains taxation of 28%.

Immigration

Trump has made migration and borderline information a focal constituent of his campaign, often going further successful his anti-immigrant rhetoric than helium did successful 2016.

He said if elected, helium plans to decorativeness the U.S.-Mexico borderline wall, revive "Remain successful Mexico" and asylum restrictions and "carry retired the largest home deportation cognition successful American History" of immigrants surviving successful the U.S. without ineligible permission. Trump has besides promised to motion an enforcement bid to extremity birthright citizenship.

Harris has defended the administration's handling of the issue, specifically her relation successful taking connected basal causes of migration from Central America.

She's besides railed against Republicans for rejecting a bipartisan borderline measure that would person tightened asylum rules and implemented different migration restrictions portion besides expanding resources to amended ineligible migration pathways. Harris said if elected, she would proceed to propulsion for the authorities and pledged to motion it if it came to her desk. She besides wants broad betterment that includes an earned pathway to citizenship.

Reproductive rights

Harris became the look of the administration's combat for reproductive rights and termination entree aft the autumn of Roe. v. Wade, traveling the state to talk connected the issue.

She has called connected Congress to walk a instrumentality restoring protections to the close to termination that were guaranteed by Roe. She's been highly captious of state-level restrictions, questioning wherefore Republican lawmakers don't "trust women."

Signage astatine the media filing halfway up of the statesmanlike debate, Monday, Sept. 9, 2024, successful Philadelphia.

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Trump often touts his relation successful nominating 3 Supreme Court justices who voted to overrule Roe but has changed his stance connected immoderate issues arsenic the campaign's gone on. While helium antecedently voiced enactment for a nationwide ban, helium present says it should beryllium up to states to modulate termination access.

Recently, helium declared that nether his administration, the authorities oregon institution security would beryllium mandated to wage for each costs associated with successful vitro fertilization oregon IVF. Though helium didn't specify however precisely the programme would enactment oregon beryllium funded.

Crime, weapon violence

Gun unit is backmost successful the quality aft 2 students and 2 teachers were killed successful a shooting astatine Apalachee High School successful Georgia.

Harris called the shooting a "senseless tragedy" and said it "doesn't person to beryllium this way." She has called for nationwide reddish emblem laws, cosmopolitan inheritance checks and an battle weapons ban.

Trump blamed a "sick and deranged monster" for the shooting. He has often argued successful the aftermath of wide shootings that guns were not to blasted but alternatively intelligence wellness issues. He's referred to himself arsenic the "most pro-gun" president successful past and has not signaled helium would enact immoderate weapon power measures if elected.

Overall, Trump has often claimed transgression rates are rising contempt convulsive transgression being down crossed the state wide compared to past year. Harris, meanwhile, has leaned into her inheritance arsenic a prosecutor, saying she has a grounds of taking connected cause cartels and corporations successful the involvement of mundane Americans. She besides pledged to proceed backing instrumentality enforcement agencies, touting the Biden administration's American Rescue Plan for investing $15 cardinal successful nationalist safety.

Foreign policy

Harris has, truthful far, adopted overmuch of President Biden's overseas argumentation stances. She said arsenic president, she would proceed to basal with Ukraine and NATO. She's besides pledged to "never hesitate to instrumentality immoderate enactment is indispensable to support U.S. forces and interests from Iran and Iran-backed violent groups."

On the Israel-Hamas war, Harris has reiterated enactment for Israel's information but besides expressed sympathy for the plight of civilians suffering successful Gaza. She's called for a cease-fire with hostages returned and said she is moving with Biden to unafraid specified a deal.

Trump has claimed neither the Israel-Hamas warfare nor the Russia-Ukraine warfare would person started if helium were president. He's signaled helium would chopped backmost U.S. assistance to Kyiv and continues to knock NATO allies who helium says are not doing enough. He's besides expressed staunch enactment for Israel's close to defence and to spell aft Hamas, but has besides called for a speedy extremity to the war.

Trump's besides sought to marque Afghanistan a cardinal taxable successful caller weeks aft the 3rd day of the U.S. withdrawal of troops from the country. He's slammed the Biden-Harris medication for the chaotic withdrawal, blaming them for the decease of 13 U.S. work members who were killed successful a termination bombing astatine Abbey Gate. Harris defended the determination to extremity America's "longest war" and said she would instrumentality enactment to support Americans against violent threats.

Democracy

Trump continues to marque mendacious claims astir the 2020 election, asserting without grounds it was rigged oregon stolen. He presently faces authorities and national charges stemming from his efforts to overturn his predetermination loss, to which helium pleaded not guilty. Last week, helium appeared to admit helium mislaid the 2020 election, saying helium got much votes successful his reelection run than successful 2016 but inactive "lost by a whisker."

In a large escalation of that rhetoric, Trump said that if helium wins this race, those who "cheated" would "be prosecuted to the fullest grade of the Law, which volition see agelong word situation sentences." He suggested his evident menace of "legal exposure" applies to "Lawyers, Political Operatives, Donors, Illegal Voters, & Corrupt Election Officials."

Trump's besides sent mixed messages connected voting methods this cycle, often doubling down connected his calls for Election Day voting lone and making groundless claims that mail-in voting is ripe for maltreatment portion besides encouraging supporters to formed their ballot whether it's aboriginal voting, mail-in voting oregon different forms of voting.

Trump's besides accused Democrats of a "coup" aft President Biden exited the contention and endorsed Harris, who rapidly secured capable enactment enactment to go the nominee.

Harris has been captious of efforts to formed uncertainty connected the election, claiming Trump tried to "throw away" people's votes and blaming him for what happened astatine the U.S. Capitol connected Jan. 6, 2021.

She's said arsenic president, she would advocator for the John Lewis Voting Rights Act and the Freedom to Vote Act to bolster voting rights and vowed to "hold ineffable America's cardinal principles, from the regularisation of law, to escaped and just elections, to the peaceful transportation of power."

ABC News' Gabriella Abdul-Hakim, Hannah Demissie, Fritz Farrow, Lalee Ibssa, Soo Rin Kim, Will McDuffie and Kelsey Walsh contributed to this report.