Harris Baits Trump: Inside Their Fiery Debate

09/11/24 • 37 min

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In their first and possibly only presidential debate, Vice President Kamala Harris dominated and enraged former President Donald J. Trump.

Jonathan Swan, who covers politics and the Trump campaign for The Times, explains how a night that could have been about Ms. Harris’s record instead became about Mr. Trump’s temperament.

Guest: Jonathan Swan, a political correspondent for The New York Times.

Background reading:

Read The Times’s live coverage of the debate as it happened.
Who won? Here’s a sampling of the reaction.
And here’s a fact-check on Mr. Trump and Ms. Harris.

For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily. Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday.

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In their first and possibly only presidential debate, Vice President Kamala Harris dominated and enraged former President Donald J. Trump.

Jonathan Swan, who covers politics and the Trump campaign for The Times, explains how a night that could have been about Ms. Harris’s record instead became about Mr. Trump’s temperament.

Guest: Jonathan Swan, a political correspondent for The New York Times.

Background reading:

Read The Times’s live coverage of the debate as it happened.
Who won? Here’s a sampling of the reaction.
And here’s a fact-check on Mr. Trump and Ms. Harris.

For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily. Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday.

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