What to Expect in the Trump-Harris Presidential Debate and How to Watch It

Ahead of Tuesday night’s statesmanlike statement betwixt Vice President Kamala Harris and erstwhile president Donald Trump, Trump is already boosting conspiracies that the lawsuit is being “rigged” successful favour of Harris.

In caller days, Trump has promoted a fig of baseless conspiracies claiming that ABC News, who volition big the debate, is fundamentally colluding with the Harris campaign. But this is conscionable 1 of galore conspiracies the erstwhile president has been promoting successful caller weeks, and his tirades to the press, online, and successful fundraising emails has included baseless allegations astir immigrants flooding the state to vote, claims that the predetermination volition beryllium fraudulent, and the thought that Harris became the Democratic nominee successful a “coup.”

These conspiracies look to beryllium apical of mind, arsenic Trump heads onto the statement signifier astatine the National Constitution Center successful Philadelphia astatine 9 p.m. ET connected Tuesday evening. And fixed his willingness to prosecute successful pushing disinformation repeatedly during June’s statement with President Joe Biden, it is imaginable that Trump could proceed pushing galore of these mendacious narratives.

“I'm going into precise hostile territory with ABC, [who] I deliberation is the worst of everybody,” Trump told reporters connected Saturday. “The crushed I’m doing [the debate] is that's the lone 1 that [Harris] would bash it with, due to the fact that her champion person is the caput of ABC.”

Trump was referring to Dana Walden, a Disney enforcement whose portfolio includes ABC News. Walden and her hubby person been friends with Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff for implicit 30 years, and the Waldens person donated important amounts of wealth to Harris’ erstwhile campaigns, arsenic good arsenic to a fig of different Democratic candidates.

ABC News, however, is 1 of conscionable 18 brands Walden oversees astatine Disney, and her engagement with ABC News does not widen to the editorial level, but is alternatively focused connected firm affairs specified arsenic budgets and staffing. “All editorial decisions are successful the hands of ABC News absorption and the seasoned journalists and producers of ABC, who clasp themselves to the highest journalistic standards,” the web said successful a connection to the New York Times past month.

On Truth Social, Trump connected Sunday shared a nexus to an nonfiction from the right-wing website called Just the News which highlights Harris and Walden’s relationship. Alongside the nexus Trump wrote: “Rigged?”

In a fundraising email, the Trump run pushed the thought that Harris would get the questions up of the debate: “Do you deliberation ABC volition springiness Kamala each question beforehand? We already cognize her wide media cronies would bash ANYTHING to support her from getting embarrassed the aforesaid mode Biden was!”

Trump has spent the past week posting astir different conspiracies regarding the statement arsenic well. On Saturday morning, Trump posted connected Truth Social that Kamala Harris mightiness usage “boxes oregon artificial lifts” connected the statement signifier to marque her look taller.

“We had this retired antecedently with erstwhile NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg erstwhile helium was successful a debate, and helium was not allowed a ‘lift’,” Trump wrote. “It would beryllium a signifier of cheating, and the Democrats cheat enough.”