Harris, Trump trade barbs in heated, high-stakes debate

Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Trump squared off Tuesday evening in what may be their only debate before November’s election, answering an array of domestic and foreign policy questions while trading barbs and repeatedly accusing each other of lying. Tim Walz, often use on the campaign trail: “We’re not going back.” Harris said that, as president, she would “create an opportunity economy” by “investing in small business, in new families, in what we can do around protecting seniors,” and “giving hardworking folks a break and bringing down the cost of living.” The vice president said she wanted to ensure the United States is respected internationally — and that it has “the most lethal fighting force in the world.” And she said she would “be a president that will protect our fundamental rights and freedoms including the right of a woman to make decisions about her own body and not have her government tell her what to do.” VIDEO | 01:30 Recap: The first Harris-Trump presidential debate Her voice caught with emotion when she said: ““As a prosecutor, I never asked a victim or a witness, Arte you a republican or a democrat? If I win, when I’m president-elect, and what I’ll do is I’ll speak to one, I’ll speak to the other, I’ll get them together.” He then said President Biden “doesn’t know he’s alive.” Asked again if he thought it was in the U.S.’s best interest for Ukraine to win the war, he said it was in the country’s best interest to just “get it done.” Vice President Kamala Harris said Trump would hand the war to Russia. I showed up for a speech.” He said he asked for 10,000 members of the National Guard during the rally from the mayor of Washington, D.C. and then-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who “didn’t do her job.” Vice President Kamala Harris described Trump’s actions on Jan. 6 as inciting “a violent mob to attack our nation’s capitol, to desecrate our nation’s capitol,” which she said was “not an isolated incident.” She cited the aftermath of the violent 2017 white supremacist march in Charlottesville, Va., when Trump said there were “very fine people on both sides.” She also mentioned the 2020 presidential debate, when Trump was given the opportunity to tell white supremacists to “stand down,” and instead said a far-right hate group, the Proud Boys, should “stand back and stand by.” “So for everyone watching who remembers what January 6 was, I say: We don’t have to go back,” Harris said. VIDEO | 00:36 Harris and Trump debate Project 2025 Trump was responding to a statement by Vice President Kamala Harris, who said that “what you’re going to hear tonight is a detailed and dangerous plan called Project 2025 that the former president intends on implementing if he were elected again.” In a meandering retort that veered into discussion of the coronavirus pandemic, Trump said: “I have nothing to do with Project 2025.