Presidential debate stay updates: Trump and Harris face off in Philadelphia

Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul says he helps Trump however that his considerations concerning the federal deficit have tempered his enthusiasm for the GOP presidential nominee.

“I believe there is no query that Donald Trump is best than Kamala Harris,” Paul mentioned on CNBC’s “Squawk Field.”

“However so far as my enthusiasm, I am a deficit hawk,” Paul added. “The Trump administration added $8 trillion. The Biden administration goes so as to add $8 trillion.”

Trump authorised $8.8 trillion of latest borrowing throughout his administration, however cancelled out a few of it with $443 billion of deficit discount measures, in keeping with a report by the nonpartisan Committee for a Accountable Federal Price range.

The online whole $8.4 trillion of Trump spending included roughly $3.6 trillion for Covid reduction and stimulus packages.

In the meantime, Biden authorised $6.2 trillion of latest borrowing in his first three years and 5 months in workplace, balanced out with $1.9 trillion of deficit discount, per the CRFB.

— Rebecca Picciotto

As his working mate counts down the hours till her debate with Trump, Tim Walz will proceed campaigning in key battleground states at present.

The Minnesota governor is about to talk at marketing campaign occasions in Las Vegas and Phoenix on Tuesday. His final occasion in Pheonix is schedule to start at 8:30 p.m. ET — a half hour earlier than the extremely anticipated debate begins.

– Josephine Rozzelle

Almost three quarters of American voters say they’ll watch the controversy tonight, in keeping with the newest ballot by NPR, PBS Information and Marist.

The talk between Trump and Biden earlier in June drew 51.3 million viewers, down from the document 73.1 million viewers who tuned in to observe the primary debate between them in September 2020. That was the third most watched debate ever, in keeping with Statista.

–Ece Yildirim

Police in Springfield, Ohio deny Vance’s declare in an X publish that individuals within the metropolis have had their “pets kidnapped and eaten by individuals who should not be on this nation.”

“There have been no credible stories or particular claims of pets being harmed, injured or abused by people throughout the immigrant neighborhood,” the Springfield Police Division mentioned in a press release. The police additionally denied that immigrants within the metropolis had been squatting, littering or disrupting site visitors.

The Vance marketing campaign has responded with a press release of its personal, saying the Ohio senator has acquired “a excessive quantity of calls and emails” about an inflow of Haitian immigrants within the metropolis.

The marketing campaign doesn’t point out something about pets being stolen and eaten.

– Josephine Rozzelle

Identical to the June presidential debate between Trump and Biden, candidates’ microphones shall be muted after they aren’t talking tonight, in keeping with guidelines launched by ABC Information.

The talk will final 90 minutes with two industrial breaks, throughout which era Trump and Harris can’t work together with members of their workers. There isn’t any stay viewers.

The nominees may have two minutes to reply every query, two minutes for rebuttal and an additional minute for follow-ups, clarifications, or responses.

Trump received the coin toss and has chosen the final phrase. Harris has chosen to be on the precise facet of viewer’s screens tonight. Neither of them will give a gap assertion.

– Josephine Rozzelle

Jessica Leeds, who has beforehand testified that Trump sexually assaulted her on an airplane within the late Nineteen Seventies, calls him “a sexual predator” who doesn’t perceive the “psychological harm” finished to girls victimized in that manner.

“We can’t let this particular person again within the White Home,” Leeds, 82, mentioned at a press convention exterior of Trump Tower in Manhattan on Monday afternoon. 

Leeds spoke days after Trump lashed out at her in connection along with her testimony at his trial final yr for a sexual abuse and defamation lawsuit by the author E. Jean Carroll, who accused him of raping her in a New York division retailer within the Nineteen Nineties.

Trump referred to as Leeds’ allegation that he groped her on a flight a “completely made up story,” and mentioned she “wouldn’t have been the chosen one.”

On Monday, Leeds mentioned, “He assaulted me 50 years in the past and continues to assault me at present.”

Requested if she would sue Trump for his feedback about her whereas denying her allegation, Leeds mentioned, “We’re contemplating various choices due to his newest remarks, however no resolution has been made at the moment.”

Carroll has sued Trump twice, and has been awarded greater than $88 million in damages for defamation and sexual abuse.

– Dan Mangan

Harris’ ally Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo says the controversy might flip right into a battle over Trump’s proposed tariff insurance policies.

“If I have been a businessperson and I heard a 20% tariff on each import, and I watched [Trump] be so erratic and unpredictable – I believe that is scary,” Raimondo mentioned on CNBC’s Squawk Field.

“Each businessperson deserves predictability,” she added. Trump has proposed tariffs from 10% to twenty% on imports from U.S. buying and selling companions.

Harris’ crew has mentioned she would “make use of focused and strategic tariffs to help American staff, strengthen our financial system, and maintain our adversaries accountable.”

– Brian Schwartz

The talk shall be hosted by ABC Information in collaboration with native affiliate WPVI-TV/6ABC.

It should air stay starting at 9 p.m. ET on ABC, and the broadcaster shall be stay streaming the controversy on ABC Information Dwell, Disney+ and Hulu. It should even be obtainable on the ABC’s app and web site, abc.com.

Different main broadcasters will simulcast the controversy, together with NBC, CNN, CBS, and Fox Information.

— Ece Yildirim