Trump-Harris Debate: How to Watch the First Presidential Match-Up

Donald Trump and Kamala Harris volition quadrate disconnected for their archetypal statesmanlike statement connected Tuesday. It’s going to beryllium indispensable viewing for each American who’s tense astir the upcoming election. And with truthful overmuch astatine stake, there’s plentifulness to beryllium tense about.

Hosted by ABC News, the 90-minute statement volition instrumentality spot astatine the National Constitution Center successful Philadelphia and is scheduled to commencement astatine 9 p.m. ET / 6 p.m. PT. If you’re looking for each the ways to watch, we’ve got you covered.

Trump and Harris person ne'er really met earlier successful existent life, which makes Tuesday’s statement a historical occasion. Trump, a convicted felon and adjudicated rapist who precocious described his program to deport millions of radical arsenic a “bloody story,” volition beryllium debating Harris, an accomplished vice president and erstwhile authoritative who wants to assistance usher America into the 21st period alternatively than resistance america backmost to the 19th. And yet someway these 2 precise antithetic radical are successful a adjacent race, if the polls tin beryllium believed. Roughly fractional of registered voters look to privation the neo-fascist to tally the state again alternatively than the mainstream progressive Democrat.

David Muir and Linsey Davis of ABC News volition big the statement Tuesday and some candidates person agreed to a fig of antithetic rules, though immoderate rules person proven to beryllium controversial. For example, microphones volition beryllium muted for each campaigner erstwhile it’s not their crook to talk. That was a regularisation that President Joe Biden’s squad supported for the infamous archetypal statement against Trump. Biden’s show was truthful atrocious it yet sealed his destiny and forced the president to drop out and marque mode for Harris. But Harris and her squad didn’t privation microphones to beryllium muted this time. It appears they thought it would beryllium utile for the American nationalist to spot Trump’s incoherent rambling and apt attempts to speech implicit Harris. However, Trump’s run squad won that conflict and microphones volition beryllium muted.

Harris has been polling good since entering the contention connected July 21, erstwhile President Joe Biden dropped out. But Harris and Trump are inactive neck-and-neck if you tin judge it. FiveThirtyEight’s nationalist polling mean has Harris up 2.8 points against Trump arsenic of Monday. That’s really down from August 27, erstwhile Harris’s borderline implicit Trump peaked astatine 3.7 points. Harris is inactive doing good successful caller battleground polls, with her virtually tied successful states that Biden was polling precise poorly in, similar Georgia and North Carolina. But it’s inactive anyone’s contention and elector turnout volition beryllium important to keeping Trump’s marque of sadism from returning to the White House.

Below, we’ve got a multitude of ways you tin ticker the debate, including livestreams and old-fashioned TV.

YouTube

• ABC News has a livestream of the statement connected YouTube.
• C-SPAN has a livestream of the statement connected YouTube.
• NBC News has a livestream of the statement connected YouTube.
• Telemundo has a livestream of the statement connected YouTube.

Websites and apps with livestreams

• ABC News Live
• BBC.com
• CBSNews.com
• Disney+
• Hulu
• Paramount+
• Peacock

Old School TV

• ABC
• CNN
• CNN International
• CNN en Español
• NBC
• PBS

A coin flip was held to find the podium placement and the bid of closing the candidates’ statements, according to a property merchandise from ABC News, with Trump winning the coin toss. The erstwhile president chose to springiness his closing connection last. That gave Vice President Harris the accidental to take her podium placement, and she opted for appearing connected the close broadside of the surface arsenic the viewers astatine location would spot it.

Harris is scheduled to travel up the statement with what the vice president’s run is calling her “New Way Forward” tour, hitting important battleground states. Harris volition beryllium holding rallies successful North Carolina connected Thursday, including the cities of Charlotte (4:30 p.m. ET) and Greensboro (8 p.m. ET). Then Friday she’s disconnected to Pennsylvania, arguably the astir important must-win plaything authorities with the closest borderline close now, wherever she’ll beryllium holding a rally successful Wilkes-Barre that’s scheduled to commencement astatine 7 p.m. ET.

Minnesota politician Tim Walz, her vice statesmanlike moving mate, volition beryllium holding an lawsuit successful Grand Rapids, Michigan, connected Thursday astatine 7 p.m. ET and past heading to Lansing, Michigan connected Friday earlier flying to Mosinee, Wisconsin aboriginal successful the day astatine the Central Wisconsin Airport. Later that evening Walz volition beryllium successful Wausau, Wisconsin.

The Vice Presidential statement betwixt Walz and Trump’s weirdo moving mate JD Vance is scheduled for October 1 and volition besides beryllium hosted by ABC News. But it’s unclear astatine this constituent whether Harris and Trump volition conscionable again for a 2nd debate. Trump insists helium wants to bash galore debates, including 2 with NBC News and Fox News, but Trump insists connected a batch of things. And if Harris is capable to get immoderate bully verbal punches successful and holds her own, Trump could precise good travel up with immoderate excuses for wherefore helium doesn’t privation different match-up. The Harris run has said she’s up for different statement if Trump shows up for Tuesday’s successful Philadelphia. But it seems improbable that she’ll hold to 1 hosted by Fox News, a propaganda web that openly supports Trump’s peculiar marque of hatred and bigotry.

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