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Tonight’s showdown: Donald Trump and Kamala Harris battled fiercely over inflation, abortion, immigration and foreign policy during Tuesday’s high-stakes ABC News presidential debate as they tried to make their case to voters with just eight weeks until Election Day. Read fact checks and key takeaways from the night.Harris baits Trump: Harris appeared to have a plan to throw Trump off his game, and she seemed to succeed during the contentious debate, saying that foreign leaders were laughing at him and accusing him of belittling people. Harris also called out Trump for attacking her racial identity.
Trump’s arguments: Trump blamed Harris for the policies of President Joe Biden, including the US withdrawal from Afghanistan and immigration, and repeated his lies about widespread fraud in the 2020 election.Big endorsement: After the debate, superstar singer Taylor Swift endorsed Harris, saying that the vice president “fights for the rights and causes I believe need a warrior to champion them.”Sigue nuestra cobertura del debate en español aquí.
Registered voters who watched Tuesday’s debate ended the night with split opinions of Kamala Harris: 45% say they view her favorably, and 44% unfavorably , according to a CNN poll of debate watchers conducted by SSRS.That’s an improvement from before the debate, when 39% of the same voters said they viewed her favorably. Debate watchers’ views of Trump, meanwhile, shifted little – 39% rated him favorably and 51% unfavorably following the debate, similar to his pre-debate numbers among the same voters.
The poll’s results reflect opinions of the debate only among those voters who tuned in and aren’t representative of the views of the full voting public. Debate watchers in the poll were 6 points likelier to be Republican-aligned than Democratic-aligned, making for an audience that’s about 4 percentage points more GOP-leaning than all registered voters nationally.Identical shares of debate-watchers, 54%, said that they had at least some confidence in Harris’ and Trump’s respective abilities to lead the country, with 36% saying they had a lot of confidence in Trump and 32% that they had a lot of confidence in Harris. In June, just 14% who tuned in for the presidential debate between Trump and Joe Biden expressed a lot of confidence in Biden’s ability to lead.
Asked specifically about Tuesday’s debate, viewers said, 42% to 33%, that Harris offered a better plan for solving the country’s problems than Trump did, with 22% saying that neither candidate offered up a better plan.Methodology: The CNN poll was conducted by text message with 605 registered US voters who said they watched the debate Tuesday, and the poll findings are representative of the views of debate watchers only. Respondents were recruited to participate before the debate and were selected via a survey of members of the SSRS Opinion Panel, a nationally representative panel recruited using probability-based sampling techniques. Results for the full sample of debate watchers have a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 5.3 percentage points.
Vice President Kamala Harris claimed Tuesday that the economy added 800,000 new manufacturing jobs during the Biden-Harris administration. Facts First: Harris was rounding up and was referring to labor market data available through July 2024, which showed the US economy added 765,000 manufacturing jobs from the first full month of the Biden-Harris administration, February 2021. But it’s worth noting that the growth almost entirely occurred in 2021 and 2022 (with 746,000 manufacturing jobs added starting in February 2021) before a relatively flat 2023 and through the first seven months of 2024.
In August, the US economy lost an estimated 24,000 manufacturing jobs, bringing that tally down to 739,000, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics’ preliminary employment data released Friday.The gain during the Biden-Harris era is, however, over 800,000 using non-seasonally-adjusted figures that are also published by the federal government – in fact, the non-seasonally adjusted gain is 874,000 through August – so there is at least a defensible basis for Harris’ claim. However, seasonally adjusted data smooths out volatility and is traditionally used to observe trends. An estimated 172,000 manufacturing jobs were lost during former President Donald Trump’s administration, however, most of those losses occurred following the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic in early 2020. From February 2017, the first full month that Trump was in office, through February 2020, the US economy added 414,000 manufacturing jobs, BLS data shows.
Presidential terms don’t start and end in a vacuum, and economic cycles can carry over regardless of party. Additionally, the ups and downs of the labor market and the broader economy are influenced by factors beyond a single president, although specific economic policies can influence economic and job growth.
President Joe Biden said he feels Vice President Kamala Harris won tonight’s debate, writing in a post on X that it “wasn’t even close.”“VP Harris proved she’s the best choice to lead our nation forward. We’re not going back,” Biden wrote.The president watched the debate from a hotel in New York City with family and staff, per a person familiar.
People watch the presidential debate during a debate watch party at Shaw’s Tavern on September 10 in Washington, DC. Donald Trump immediately looked to turn the debate against Kamala Harris on Tuesday night into a win and questioned whether he would participate in a second one.“I think it was the best debate that I’ve ever personally that I’ve had,” Trump said in the “spin room,” where supporters of each candidate put their “spin” on the debate in conversations with reporters.He said Harris “wants to do another one because she got beaten tonight, but I don’t know if we’re going to be doing another one.”
Trump was again noncommittal when asked on Fox News whether he would agree to another debate with Harris, saying, “I have to think about it, but if you won the debate, I sort of think maybe I shouldn’t do it.”“Why should I do another debate? She immediately said, ‘We want another.’ That’s, you know, what happens when you’re a prizefighter and you lose, you immediately want a new fight,” he told Fox News host Sean Hannity.Harris’ team immediately called for the candidates to do a second debate. Trump’s campaign had said he agreed to do a NBC debate on September 25.This post has been updated with additional remarks from Donald Trump.
Vice President Kamala Harris, right, and former President Donald Trump shake hands during the second presidential debate at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia on Tuesday, September 10. Registered voters who watched Tuesday’s debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump say, 63% to 37%, that Harris turned in a better performance, according to a CNN poll of debate watchers conducted by SSRS.Prior to the debate, the same voters were evenly split on which candidate would perform more strongly, with 50% saying Harris would do so and 50% that Trump would.
The poll’s results reflect opinions of the debate only among those voters who tuned in, and aren’t representative of the views of the full voting public. Debate watchers in the poll were 6 points likelier to be Republican-aligned than Democratic-aligned, making for an audience that’s about 4 percentage points more GOP-leaning than all registered voters nationally.But the results mark a shift from June, when voters who tuned in for the debate between Trump and Joe Biden said, 67% to 33%, that Trump outperformed his Democratic rival. In 2020 and 2016, Biden and Hillary Clinton were seen by debate watchers as outperforming Trump across the presidential debates.
Methodology: The CNN poll was conducted by text message with 605 registered US voters who said they watched the debate Tuesday, and the poll findings are representative of the views of debate watchers only. Respondents were recruited to participate before the debate and were selected via a survey of members of the SSRS Opinion Panel, a nationally representative panel recruited using probability-based sampling techniques. Results for the full sample of debate watchers have a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 5.3 percentage points.
In Tuesday night’s debate, former President Donald Trump once again said that Vice President Kamala Harris wants to get rid of private health insurance. “But she won’t improve private insurance for people, private medical insurance,” Trump said. “That’s another thing she doesn’t want to give. People are paying privately for insurance that have worked hard and made money and they wanna have private – she wants everybody to be on government insurance where you wait six months for an operation that you need immediately.” Facts First: Trump’s claim is outdated. While Harris did say in her first presidential campaign in 2019 that she wanted to eliminate private health insurance, the plan she rolled out later that year included a role for private insurers, and as vice president, she has supported bolstering the Affordable Care Act. Coverage on the Obamacare exchanges are offered by private insurers.
PoliticsLive TVVice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump.The latest on the first debate between Trump and HarrisABC News shared an image of the stage ahead of the debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump in Philadelphia.En español: Cobertura en vivo del debateAn ABC News banner is assembled as preparations are made in the spin room and filing center for Tuesday’s presidential debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, in Philadelphia, on Monday, Sept. 9, 2024. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times)RECAPAnalysis of the debate from CNN expertsLIVE UPDATESTrump and Harris face off in contentious debateBy Michelle Shen, Maureen Chowdhury, Elise Hammond, Tori B. Powell, Michael Williams and Chelsea Bailey, CNNUpdated 12:14 AM EDT, Wed September 11, 2024Watch CNN analysis following the ABC News presidential debate between Harris and Trump- Source: CNNWhat you need to knowTonight’s showdown: Donald Trump and Kamala Harris battled fiercely over inflation, abortion, immigration and foreign policy during Tuesday’s high-stakes ABC News presidential debate as they tried to make their case to voters with just eight weeks until Election Day. Read fact checks and key takeaways from the night.Harris baits Trump: Harris appeared to have a plan to throw Trump off his game, and she seemed to succeed during the contentious debate, saying that foreign leaders were laughing at him and accusing him of belittling people. Harris also called out Trump for attacking her racial identity.Trump’s arguments: Trump blamed Harris for the policies of President Joe Biden, including the US withdrawal from Afghanistan and immigration, and repeated his lies about widespread fraud in the 2020 election.Big endorsement: After the debate, superstar singer Taylor Swift endorsed Harris, saying that the vice president “fights for the rights and causes I believe need a warrior to champion them.”Sigue nuestra cobertura del debate en español aquí. AllCatch UpAnalysisFact CheckReactionThe Rules182 PostsSORT BYLatest2 min ago”This was my best debate,” Trump tells CNNFrom CNN’s Piper Hudspeth BlackburnFormer President Donald Trump defended his debate performance to CNN’s Kaitlan Collins as he exited the spin room on Wednesday.“This was my best debate,” Trump said when pressed by Collins on whether he took the bait from Vice President Kamala Harris.Asked about his answer to whether he would veto a national abortion ban, Trump said:“All you have to do is check it, it was a perfect answer on abortion. And I’ve done a great job in that and I’ve brought our country together.” 3 min agoTrump reacts to Taylor Swift endorsement of Harris: “I have no idea”From CNN’s Kate SullivanFormer President Donald Trump said he had “no idea” when asked by CNN what his reaction was to Taylor Swift’s endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris. “I have no idea,” he said when asked his reaction in the spin room after the ABC News presidential debate. Swift said in a post on Instagram that she watched the debate and would cast her vote for Harris, ending speculation about whether the megastar would share her political views ahead of November’s election. 9 min agoCNN Flash Poll: Views of Harris improved among debate watchers after face-off with TrumpFrom CNN’s Ariel Edwards-LevyRegistered voters who watched Tuesday’s debate ended the night with split opinions of Kamala Harris: 45% say they view her favorably, and 44% unfavorably , according to a CNN poll of debate watchers conducted by SSRS.That’s an improvement from before the debate, when 39% of the same voters said they viewed her favorably. Debate watchers’ views of Trump, meanwhile, shifted little – 39% rated him favorably and 51% unfavorably following the debate, similar to his pre-debate numbers among the same voters.The poll’s results reflect opinions of the debate only among those voters who tuned in and aren’t representative of the views of the full voting public. Debate watchers in the poll were 6 points likelier to be Republican-aligned than Democratic-aligned, making for an audience that’s about 4 percentage points more GOP-leaning than all registered voters nationally.Identical shares of debate-watchers, 54%, said that they had at least some confidence in Harris’ and Trump’s respective abilities to lead the country, with 36% saying they had a lot of confidence in Trump and 32% that they had a lot of confidence in Harris. In June, just 14% who tuned in for the presidential debate between Trump and Joe Biden expressed a lot of confidence in Biden’s ability to lead. Asked specifically about Tuesday’s debate, viewers said, 42% to 33%, that Harris offered a better plan for solving the country’s problems than Trump did, with 22% saying that neither candidate offered up a better plan.Methodology: The CNN poll was conducted by text message with 605 registered US voters who said they watched the debate Tuesday, and the poll findings are representative of the views of debate watchers only. Respondents were recruited to participate before the debate and were selected via a survey of members of the SSRS Opinion Panel, a nationally representative panel recruited using probability-based sampling techniques. Results for the full sample of debate watchers have a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 5.3 percentage points. 3 min agoFact Check: Harris on manufacturing jobs From CNN’s Daniel Dale and Alicia Wallace Workers at the Linamar Corp. of Canada EV battery case manufacturing facility in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, in October 2023.Workers at the Linamar Corp. of Canada EV battery case manufacturing facility in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, in October 2023. Liam Kennedy/Bloomberg/Getty ImagesVice President Kamala Harris claimed Tuesday that the economy added 800,000 new manufacturing jobs during the Biden-Harris administration. Facts First: Harris was rounding up and was referring to labor market data available through July 2024, which showed the US economy added 765,000 manufacturing jobs from the first full month of the Biden-Harris administration, February 2021. But it’s worth noting that the growth almost entirely occurred in 2021 and 2022 (with 746,000 manufacturing jobs added starting in February 2021) before a relatively flat 2023 and through the first seven months of 2024. In August, the US economy lost an estimated 24,000 manufacturing jobs, bringing that tally down to 739,000, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics’ preliminary employment data released Friday.The gain during the Biden-Harris era is, however, over 800,000 using non-seasonally-adjusted figures that are also published by the federal government – in fact, the non-seasonally adjusted gain is 874,000 through August – so there is at least a defensible basis for Harris’ claim. However, seasonally adjusted data smooths out volatility and is traditionally used to observe trends. An estimated 172,000 manufacturing jobs were lost during former President Donald Trump’s administration, however, most of those losses occurred following the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic in early 2020. From February 2017, the first full month that Trump was in office, through February 2020, the US economy added 414,000 manufacturing jobs, BLS data shows. Presidential terms don’t start and end in a vacuum, and economic cycles can carry over regardless of party. Additionally, the ups and downs of the labor market and the broader economy are influenced by factors beyond a single president, although specific economic policies can influence economic and job growth. 14 min ago”Wasn’t even close”: Biden weighs in on debateFrom CNN’s Chelsea BaileyPresident Joe Biden said he feels Vice President Kamala Harris won tonight’s debate, writing in a post on X that it “wasn’t even close.”“VP Harris proved she’s the best choice to lead our nation forward. We’re not going back,” Biden wrote.The president watched the debate from a hotel in New York City with family and staff, per a person familiar. 21 min ago”I think it was the best debate,” Trump says; noncommittal on whether he’ll do anotherFrom CNN’s Jack Forrest and Rashard RosePeople watch the presidential debate during a debate watch party at Shaw’s Tavern on September 10 in Washington, DC. People watch the presidential debate during a debate watch party at Shaw’s Tavern on September 10 in Washington, DC. Donald Trump immediately looked to turn the debate against Kamala Harris on Tuesday night into a win and questioned whether he would participate in a second one.“I think it was the best debate that I’ve ever personally that I’ve had,” Trump said in the “spin room,” where supporters of each candidate put their “spin” on the debate in conversations with reporters.He said Harris “wants to do another one because she got beaten tonight, but I don’t know if we’re going to be doing another one.”Trump was again noncommittal when asked on Fox News whether he would agree to another debate with Harris, saying, “I have to think about it, but if you won the debate, I sort of think maybe I shouldn’t do it.”“Why should I do another debate? She immediately said, ‘We want another.’ That’s, you know, what happens when you’re a prizefighter and you lose, you immediately want a new fight,” he told Fox News host Sean Hannity.Harris’ team immediately called for the candidates to do a second debate. Trump’s campaign had said he agreed to do a NBC debate on September 25.This post has been updated with additional remarks from Donald Trump. 19 min agoCNN Flash Poll: Majority of debate watchers say Harris outperformed TrumpBy CNN’s Ariel Edwards-LevyVice President Kamala Harris, right, and former President Donald Trump shake hands during the second presidential debate at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia on Tuesday, September 10.Vice President Kamala Harris, right, and former President Donald Trump shake hands during the second presidential debate at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia on Tuesday, September 10. Registered voters who watched Tuesday’s debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump say, 63% to 37%, that Harris turned in a better performance, according to a CNN poll of debate watchers conducted by SSRS.Prior to the debate, the same voters were evenly split on which candidate would perform more strongly, with 50% saying Harris would do so and 50% that Trump would.The poll’s results reflect opinions of the debate only among those voters who tuned in, and aren’t representative of the views of the full voting public. Debate watchers in the poll were 6 points likelier to be Republican-aligned than Democratic-aligned, making for an audience that’s about 4 percentage points more GOP-leaning than all registered voters nationally.But the results mark a shift from June, when voters who tuned in for the debate between Trump and Joe Biden said, 67% to 33%, that Trump outperformed his Democratic rival. In 2020 and 2016, Biden and Hillary Clinton were seen by debate watchers as outperforming Trump across the presidential debates.Methodology: The CNN poll was conducted by text message with 605 registered US voters who said they watched the debate Tuesday, and the poll findings are representative of the views of debate watchers only. Respondents were recruited to participate before the debate and were selected via a survey of members of the SSRS Opinion Panel, a nationally representative panel recruited using probability-based sampling techniques. Results for the full sample of debate watchers have a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 5.3 percentage points. 31 min agoFact Check: Trump says Harris wants to get rid of private health insurance From CNN’s Tamy LuhbyIn Tuesday night’s debate, former President Donald Trump once again said that Vice President Kamala Harris wants to get rid of private health insurance. “But she won’t improve private insurance for people, private medical insurance,” Trump said. “That’s another thing she doesn’t want to give. People are paying privately for insurance that have worked hard and made money and they wanna have private – she wants everybody to be on government insurance where you wait six months for an operation that you need immediately.” Facts First: Trump’s claim is outdated. While Harris did say in her first presidential campaign in 2019 that she wanted to eliminate private health insurance, the plan she rolled out later that year included a role for private insurers, and as vice president, she has supported bolstering the Affordable Care Act. Coverage on the Obamacare exchanges are offered by private insurers. At a CNN town hall in January 2019, Harris, who was then a California senator vying for the Democratic presidential nomination, said that she would eliminate private health insurance as a necessary part of implementing Medicare for All, a government-run health insurance proposal promoted by Sen. Bernie Sanders. Harris was a co-sponsor of Sanders’ bill, which called for essentially getting rid of the private insurance market. A furor erupted, and her national press secretary and an adviser quickly walked back her comment, saying she was open to multiple paths to Medicare for All. And private insurers were included in the plan she rolled out in July 2019. “We will allow private insurers to offer Medicare plans as a part of this system that adhere to strict Medicare requirements on costs and benefits,” Harris wrote in a Medium post about her plan. “Medicare will set the rules of the road for these plans, including price and quality, and private insurance companies will play by those rules, not the other way around.”
Since she was named President Joe Biden’s vice president, she has supported his efforts to strengthen the Affordable Care Act, which has led to a record number of people signing up for 2024 coverage from private insurers on the individual market. Harris’ campaign has confirmed that the vice president no longer supports a single-payer health care system.
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