Kamala Harris and Donald Trump go head-to-head in a prime time debate on Tuesday. It will be their first – and possibly only – debate during the campaign for November’s election.
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00:00Taking a break from preparing for possibly her biggest test in this election campaign,
00:06Kamala Harris with her husband in Pennsylvania, a key battleground state and the setting for
00:12a U.S. election debate that could make or break her bid for the Oval Office.
00:17Are you ready, Madam Vice President?
00:19Ready.
00:21Democratic candidate Harris and her opponent, Republican Donald Trump, will go face-to-face
00:26on Tuesday for the first time since Harris entered the presidential race and wiped out
00:32Trump's lead in the polls.
00:34She's called Trump unserious and touted her background as a prosecutor in contrast with
00:40Trump, the first former U.S. president to be convicted of felony crimes.
00:45As Attorney General, I held the big Wall Street banks accountable for fraud.
00:53Well, Donald Trump was just found guilty of fraud.
00:5834 counts to be exact.
01:05Former President Trump has called Harris a nasty person.
01:09At a campaign event in another key state, Wisconsin, he criticized Harris and President Joe Biden.
01:16He is the worst president in history.
01:18She will be worse than him.
01:20She will be worse than him.
01:21And Trump is never wrong.
01:22I am never, ever wrong.
01:24Trump goes into the 90-minute primetime show with more experience.
01:29It will be his seventh presidential debate, the most of any candidate in modern history.
01:35He and Harris are expected to argue over the economy, immigration, abortion and crime,
01:41watched by millions of voters.
01:43This is definitely one of the more consequential debates in recent history.
01:47And there's a couple of reasons for that.
01:49One is that the race is just so close that any movement of the needle could have a profound impact on the election.
01:57And the other one is the simple fact that a lot of Americans still don't know who Kamala Harris is.
02:02Harris has not given a single news conference since becoming the Democratic nominee in August.
02:08And that was after Biden's faltering performance in his debate against Trump
02:13eventually forced him to abandon the race.
02:16And I'm going to continue to move until we get the total ban on the total initiative
02:22relative to what we're going to do with more border patrol and more asylum officers.
02:28President Trump?
02:29I really don't know what he said at the end of that sentence.
02:31I don't think he knows what he said either.
02:33Like that debate, when Harris and Trump meet, there will be no live audience.
02:38And microphones will be muted when the other candidate is speaking.
02:42A format seen to benefit Trump, whose hecklings and interruptions in the past put off moderate voters.
02:49But given that Trump is already a known quantity, most eyes are expected to be on Harris.
02:55With this debate, hers to win or lose.
02:58Joseph Wu and Louise Watt for Taiwan Plus.