Sparks fly between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris in their first and possibly last debate before the November vote. As soon as she got on stage, the vice president approached Trump, shook his hand and introduced herself: ‘Nice to meet you, Kamala Harris, let’s have a good debate,’ were her words in what was their first in-person meeting. After the pleasantries, the two candidates immediately engaged in battle, from abortion to immigration, passing through foreign policy. Here are the key sentences of the debate.
* ‘PUTIN WOULD EAT YOU FOR LUNCH, HE WOULD BE SITTING IN KIEV’ if Trump were president, Harris attacked, speaking of Ukraine. ‘Dictators and autocrats are rooting for you to be president again because it is clear that they can manipulate you with flattery and favors, was the thrust.
* ‘SPRINGFIELD IS EATING DOGS. The people who came in are eating cats. They are eating the pets of the people who live there. That is what is happening in our country. And that is a shame,’ Trump said of the migrants who came to America illegally because of, in his opinion, Biden and Harris.
* ‘I AM NOT JOE BIDEN. I AM NOT DONALD TRUMP. What I offer is a new generation of leadership for the country,’ Harris explained, rejecting comparisons and comparisons of Trump with Biden. ‘You are Biden,’ the former president went so far as to say.
* ‘I’M TALKING IF YOU DON’T MIND, DOES THIS SOUND FAMILIAR?’. The former president thus scolded Harris for speaking even though it wasn’t her turn. Trump was referring to the debate the vice president had in 2020 with Mike Pence, who Harris repeatedly scolded for interrupting her.
* ‘AN INSULT TO AMERICAN WOMEN,’ Harris blasts Trump’s stance on abortion.
* ‘KAMALA HARRIS HATES ISRAEL,’ Trump said of tensions in the Middle East and the war in Gaza. ‘With her as president, Israel will no longer exist in two years,’ he added.
* ‘TRUMP SOLD US OUT TO CHINA, FOREIGN LEADERS LAUGH AT HIM’, were the words of the Democratic candidate to reject the former president’s criticisms on the economy.
*’HARRIS IS A MARXIST WHO DESTROYED THE COUNTRY,’ he had claimed.
* ‘DEMOCRATS WANT TO EXECUTE CHILDREN,’ Trump said of abortion after accusing Democrats of wanting to allow terminations of pregnancy up to the ‘ninth month.’ The former president referred to the ‘former governor of West Virginia who said ‘a child will be born and then we’ll decide what to do. In other words, we’ll execute the child.’