Five key moments from Harris-Trump debate

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Five key moments from Harris-Trump debate

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The first debate handshake in eight years, offered by Harris

Donald Trump and Kamala Harris clashed fiercely on Tuesday night in their first debate ahead of November’s presidential election.

The 90-minute duel in Philadelphia saw a volley of personal attacks as they tussled over *********, immigration and foreign policy.

But there was no clear knockout ***** in the live forum amid a White House race that ******** too close to call.

Here are five key moments:

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Trump raised baseless claims of migrants eating pets in Ohio

1. The handshake

As they walked out, Harris strode across the stage to Trump as he approached his podium.

” Kamala Harris,” she said, offering a handshake as the pair met for the first time ever. “Let’s have a good debate.”

“Nice to see you. Have fun,” the former *********** president said.

It was the first handshake in a presidential debate in eight years.

Harris spent the majority of the debate looking directly at her opponent, often smirking, laughing out loud, or shaking her head incredulously while he answered questions.

The split screen showed Trump staring mostly straight ahead as she spoke, while occasionally shaking his head.

2. Personal attacks

Vice-President Harris, a Democrat, went on the offensive from the outset, goading her *********** rival and assailing him over his ********* trials and his handling of the Covid-19 pandemic.

He turned the subject repeatedly back to inflation and immigration, political vulnerabilities for Harris, arguing that the Biden-Harris administration had “destroyed” the country, while portraying her as a “Marxist”.

Harris poked fun at crowd sizes at his rallies.

“People start leaving his rallies early out of exhaustion and boredom,” she said.

Trump hit back: “People don’t go to her rallies. There’s no reason to go.”

At one stage, when Harris interrupted Trump, he said: “I’m talking now. Does that sound familiar?” He was referring to a similar riposte she made in a 2020 vice-presidential debate against Mike Pence.

Later, as Harris spoke over him, Trump said: “Quiet please.”

At one point, Harris mocked his praise for dictators “who would eat you for lunch”.

Trump, meanwhile, claimed that Joe Biden, the US president, dislikes Harris.

“He hates her,” he said. “He can’t stand her.”

Trump also blamed heated Democratic rhetoric for the ************** attempt against him in July by a gunman whose motives are unknown.

“I probably took a bullet to the head because of the things they said about me,” he said.

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Harris listens intently to Trump

3. ‘They’re eating the dogs’

In the hours before the debate, social media was filled with reports of unsubstantiated claims – repeated by JD Vance, Trump’s running mate, that Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, had been stealing pets and eating them.

Despite city officials telling the BBC there are no credible reports to support these claims, Trump brought up the matter in the debate.

“They’re eating the dogs, they’re eating the cats, they’re eating the pets of the people that live there. This is a shame,” he said.

Harris made no direct comment on the claims.

“Talk about extreme,” she said.

Read more on the BBC fact-check on the Springfield claims here.

4. *********

Some of Harris’s most aggressive attacks on Trump came as they clashed on ********* access, one of the biggest issues for Democrats since the US Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to an ********* in 2022.

“One does not have to abandon their ****** or deeply held beliefs to agree the government – and Donald Trump, certainly – should not be telling a woman what to do with her body,” Harris said.

She said Trump would “sign an ********* ban” if re-elected and cited ************* states that prohibit the procedure and allow limited exceptions.

Trump, for whom the issue is a potential political liability, countered: “What she says is an absolute lie. I am not in favour of an ********* ban.”

Trump reiterated that he supports exceptions for cases of *****, ******* or when the life of the mother is at risk.

At one point Trump claimed that some ******* were being subjected to “executions” after birth.

One of the ABC moderators interceded to fact-check him, saying: “There is no state in this country where it is legal to ***** a baby after it’s born.”

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5. Policies?

Trump said Harris had no policies, accusing her of copying some of his own ideas on the campaign trial and that he was “going to send her a Maga hat”, while also arguing she would be no different from President Biden.

“She has no policy,” he said.

“Remember this, she is Biden,” he said at another point.

Harris countered: “Clearly, I am not Joe Biden.”

Trump, who while president tried to overturn to Obamacare, was asked what would be his plan now to replace the Affordable Care Act.

He said he had “concepts of a plan” that would be “something that’s better”, if elected.

On the economy, an issue that opinion polls show favours Trump, Harris repeatedly stated: “I have a plan.”

Depicting her as a ******** ********, Trump responded: “She has a plan to defund the police. She has a plan to confiscate everyone’s guns. She has a plan to ban fracking in Pennsylvania and everywhere else.”

Harris denied all this, and mentioned that she owns a ****.

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