and i'm lindsay davis. tonight's meeting could be the most consequential event of their campaigns with election day now less than 2 months away. for vice president camala harris, this is her first debate. since president biden withdrew from the race on july 21st. of course, that decision followed his debate against president donald trump in june. since then, this race has taken on an entirely new dynamic. and that brings us to the rules of tonight's debate: 90 minutes with two commercial breaks, no or questions have been shared with the campaigns. the candidates will have two minutes to answer questions, and this is the clock, that's what they'll be seeing. two minutes for rebuttles, and one minute for follow-ups, clarifications or responses. their microphones will only be turned on when it's their turn to speak, no pre-written notes allowed. there is no audience here tonight in this hall at the national constitution center. this is intimate setting for two candidates who have never met. president trump won

know that it abortion question when lindsay davis jumped in?mediately cited thank you, i told you he was going to lie almighty. she's basically acknowledging it was three on one, i thought it was pathetic. like my idea of what each person gets to pick their own questionnaire. >> jesse: i like the idea as well. donald trump will pick hannity and kamala harris will take -- so they get to question each other? >> tell me that she wouldn't it be great television? hannity action gets to ask kamala harris questions she does not want to answer and trump will answer any question! and it it eliminates the bias, and boom you have a real debate. guess what, one is on the economy or borders, crime, kamala harris fails the test on all three. is where the first question, nothing is better! white, black, hispanic act gay, straight, mail or if you will, everybody is in worse financial shape with kamala harris and biden in office when the comment compared to when trump was a. >> jesse: last question, will there be another debate and who will host it? seriously?

the fact that lindsay davis would come to kamala's support to make the claim that no one is having theserm abortions, wood is not actually happening. >> laura: minnesota. >> seventh, eighth, ninth month and impact minutes out of the state that tim walz governors when he became governor, he reversed a policy that was actually passed in sidewall with the democratic governor the border line protection act design to make hospitals care for infants who survive the abortion process to give every consideration to help them survive and he reversed that completely. he did a reporting requirement because frankly he was being embarrassed by the fact that there were five in france went through the process. it is absolutely disgusting. but his file and a reminder of how radical this democratic ticket is and that the media, including "abc news" will run to their defense and sell lies to the american people. >> laura: they do not want the american people to know this is happening. >> they want to pretend it isn't. >> laura: kamala couldn't keep her story great on fracking last night. watch this. >> my

is lindsay davis and david mueller, the abc news presidential, the bank between donald trump and couple of hours. so you can see what was going to be pretty big idea idea where you're doing the nice and i using the senior vice president of the one who was going to be worth watching on a, b, c. and around the world. tonight, vice president campbell harris and president donald trump are just moments away from taking the stage in this unprecedented race for president. and i'm lindsey davis. tonight's meeting could be the most consequential event of their campaigns was election day. now less than 2 months away. for vice president campbell of harris, this is her 1st debate since present, invite and withdrew from the race on july 20. first, of course that decision followed his debate against president donald trump in june . since then, his race has taken on an entirely new dynamic and that brings us to the rules of tonight's debate, 90 minutes with 2 commercial breaks, no topics or questions have been shared with the campaigns. the candidates will have 2 minutes to answer questions and this i

david mir and lindsay davis said we were ready to counter the candidates most agree just statements,y did not counter the egregious statements, she talked about the heritage foundation, you know that he was not involved in that, she called it trump's project 2025, said he supports an abortion ban, that was sent back to the state, his not banning abortions. ban on ivf, he knows that a lot of her women rely on ivf to start a family paired he never said this. then said going to cut to medicare, not true, that he supports a national sales tax. not true. dozens of lies that she said in that once was she fact-checked. >> kayleigh: that is so well said, todd, if you watched both candidates debates, you would've seen kamala give the idea fly, you would've seen kamala give the lie about a national abortion ban and he would've checked it. so lindsay davis, david mirror, you don't watch the debate and if you did you made a conservative decision not to check her. >> todd: i have a contrarian view on this. >> kayleigh: i am not ready for this. >> todd: does abc news really care if they are consid

abc's david muir and lindsay davis. each candidate's microphone will be muted wile the other is speaking. our special programming starts at 1:00 a.m. u.c. time and there to guide you through it will be my colleague sumi. big night. the people who say they need to know more about kamala harris are the same voters who are yet to make a decision. >> that's absolutely right. this is being seen as a high-stakes debate but especially for kamala harris. if you look at some of the recent polling this week from nimes and cnn it was really interesting to nope that at the same time that this is a dead heat of a race, a majority of voters say they don't know enough about kamala harris. they want to know more about who she is, what she stands for and that of what she would enact if president. this is a huge stage for both of them. an opportunity to speak to a wild swath of the population. we are expecting big numbers to be tune tuning in tonight. recognize that massively cons conventional debate on june 27 between president biden an

i'm lindsay davis and i'm david newer. thank you for watching here in the us and all over the world and from all of us here at abc news. good. you've been watching the i b. c. news presidential debate between donald trump and campbell harris here on the top. we can use welcome to you on jared read way, going to be spending the next few minutes, giving you a wrap pop of this device. and we can speak 1st to the double use washington bureau chief in this pole who's been following the divide over the last little while he is a fetus and fiery debate. boats campbell harris and donald trump accusing each other really of lying multiple times. so much riding on this, who do you think came out on top harris? so trump that was quite a debate wasn't the end of the whole country was waiting for that been since uh weeks. um, honestly uh, i think it's pretty even uh it comes to hers wasn't able what you tried to do over and over again to really crack a full president, donald trump, to, to attack her to make him a take her in a way that w

david muir and lindsay davis. david: good evening. i'm david muir. thank you for joining us for tonight's presidential debate. we want to welcome viewers watching on abc and around the world tonight. vice president harris and president trump a moments from taking the stage in this unprecedented race for parent s for president. lindsay: tonight could be the most consequential debate in the race for president. this is vice president harris' first debate since president biden's withdrawal. david: tonight's debate, 90 minutes with two commercial breaks. no topics or questions have been shared with the campaigns. the candidates will have two minutes to answer questions, and this is the clock that they will be seeing. two minutes for rebuttal's and one minute for follow-up clarification on responses. microphones will only be turned on when it is their turn to speak. no prewritten notes allowed. there is no audience in this hall at the constitution center. this is an intimate setting for two candidates who have never met. lindsay: president trump won the co

i'm lindsay davis and i'm david moore. thank you for watching here in the us and all over the world. and from all of us here at a b. c. news. good. well that was the a b, c news presidential debate to the national constitution center in the philadelphia between comma harris and don't know from, from united states presence of the current vice president of colorado. how is facing off in the 1st presidential debate with the election less than 2 months away? well, that's go alive to, kimberly, how can now, who's in philadelphia? kimberly, what can we make of what we saw and heard as well, what we can make from it is that there was a certainly a rough start for the vice president, but it quickly in terms of the nerves dissipated and she found her form, but she had a bit of a dry mouth at the beginning, but that quickly evaporated. and soon she was in the prosecutor tauriel for him that she was comfortable in firing off attacks at the former president as some of the strong points that she have in terms of those attacks that we e

that -- writes for the atlantic put out a tweet on moderators last night saying david muir and lindsay davis i work with both of them they are friends but alberta writes abc moderates -- 2 to 3 times and harris zero times another way to look at it abc moderators fact checked trump 2 to 3 times instead of 500 times. but several times they asked harris direct questions about the economy they asked her if she thought they bore any responsibility for inflation. why did you wait three and half years to do anything on immigration why did you wait until six months before the election. she blew completely passed it with no pushback from the moderators. they did the same to trump and you might say they should or shouldn't do that but you have to pick one and two at about. >> trump took five minutes more it was not like they did not give him a chance to talk. >> he said before the debate he was going to let her talk. >> he can't and that could said about me too but he can't not talk, it is genetic. >> you talk about debates not winning elections is an issue but moving forward, what can she take from t

ashley: you could also feel the disdain coming off of lindsay davis. >> we can keep talking about, butllow your lead. ashley: i was shocked at how biased it was. white house photographers are going after the harris campaign. according to a letter obtained by axios, they had a, quote, unpress can dented reduction in access over the last several weeks. so, lisa, no one-on-one interviews for harris. the media a appears to have pretty limit limited access. it's just another basement strategy, right? and is it the right one? if. >> well, it's the teleprompter, you know, strategy instead of the basement. they're putting her out there, she's going on the campaign trail, but it's the all controlled, it's all filtered. and even during the debate, she rehearsed her lines, but does anyone actually believe she knows what any of them mean? there was a lack of substance. people still don't know where she stands on the issues because she's been in a hundred different issues -- places on each issue. and i think people walked away still not feeling they understood where she stands. and she's parking lo

. >> emily: and just to say lindsay davis, i find it egregious in preparation for the debate to fill in the gap that in the last debate to president biden and the moderators did not fill. they took on the role again of debater. it was three verses one and they are reading in black and white into pre-med by david mirror later for comoderator to say it's in your hands the american people, remember the powers in your hands, do your job by being objective and mutually presenting. >> kayleigh: just my personal opinion, they probably read dnc press releases. >> kaylee: and i'm glad that he actually mentioned that it's the people, the american voters and the viewers that have the power. because you know what they are doing right now, they are tuning out of his show. there's been a 12% drop in viewership for his show since the debate and that's a little bit encouraging to me because it shows that american voters aren't stupid. that they actually expect more from the press and the press to hold themselves to a higher standard than the one that abc is moderators held them to you and this is on

on the dedo bait stage last tuesday night in philadelphia as abc news moderators david muir and lindsay davisr their performance which critics say was tilted in favor of harris. former pollster mark penn is calling on abc news to hire an independent investigator to the look into internal communications between the network and the harris campaign telling reporter john solomon, quote, to find out to what extent they were planning on, in effect, fact checking just one outcome. i think the situation commands nothing less than that, says mark penn. ark bc news has denied any wrongdoing. joining me now is the former speaker of the house and fox news contributor, newt gingrich. mr. speaker, thanks for being here. always a pleasure. >> good to be with you. maria: i want to get your take on what really changed after that debate and whether or not you believe the gop has done enough to ensure a fair and safe election in november. >> well, look, i think something like the safe act ought to be passed. i think it should tell people a lot that 198 house democrats voted no on blocking illegal immigrants fro

it was a debate between david muir and lindsay davis and kamala harris and donald trump and i think thatas something so blatant that it's going to be used frankly by a lot of republicans i think to spin this as being an excuse for poor performance on the former president's part and frankly giving kamala a pass onn so many issues you just said but they never asked her about joe biden's capacity to function as president over the coming months which is a critical issue that i think is the most obvious question to ask. they never asked a question about china. they never asked a question about the fact that there is, you know, an american just killed by hamas. they never asked the questions about iranian backed militia targeting american military, you know, figures overseas et cetera, and they never asked a question about inflation, which i think is just criminal. it's something that you can't do as moderators to sort of say we're just going to skew this thing in a way that where we're putting our thumb on the scale in such an obvious way no one can possibly take us seriously and look, i mean

kudos to the debate moderators, david muir and lindsay davis, they did a good job.t's a difficult position, and they did an admiral job. ashley parker, jake sherman, thank you very much. >>> and still ahead, they are one debate down, but will there be a rematch? donald trump says probably not. we'll see. >>> plus, we're live on the ground in another critical swing state. what voters in michigan are saying about last night's show down and an economic reality check is ahead. christine romans on the claims laid out for both candidates. we are back in 90 seconds. are . keep things fresh with febreze small spaces. it's an outlet-free air freshener that fights odors for 45 days. so even after every flush... you know your bathroom smells amazing. ♪ lalalalala ♪ life has twists and curls. but you define them and make them bounce. tresemme flawless curls defining mousse. 24 hour. hydrating curl definition. style your life the way you want. ♪♪ tresemme, style your way. >>> last night the abc moderators asked donald trump some simple yes or no questions on the war in ukraine,

the abc news presidential debate here now, david muir and lindsay davis. >> thank you for joining us. we want to welcome viewers around the world. kamala harris and donald trump are moments away from taking the stage. >> tonight's meeting could be the most consequential moment with election day less than two months away. for harris this is her first debate divided with drew on july 21 following his debate in june. the race has taken on a new face. >> candidates will have two minutes to answer questions and this is the clock. two minutes for rebuttals and one minute for responses. microphones will be turned on when it is their turn to the there is no audience, and intimate setting for two candidates who have never met. >> president trump chose to deliver the closing statement. >> let's welcome the candidates vice president kamala harris and president donald trump. >> let's have a good debate. thank you. >> welcome to you both. it's an honor. >> you are looking forward to ace. awful debate. -- a spirited debate. >> you were elected four use ago. you believe americans are better off? mrs

i think david muir and lindsay davis will do a good job.hink they will hold donald trump much more accountable than the cnn moderators did in the debate with joe biden. though, i agree with what ruth just said, it is very difficult when you're going to get this toronto of lies by donald trump, to try to confront that in the midst of also trying to present what you want to present as a candidate, for harris. what i think she will probably do, and i don't know this and this is what i would recommend, but i think she's smart and she'll probably do, is you don't have to attack every single lie that he tells. but i think at moments in times you have to pick certain lies and basically say, so many lies, so little time, let me deal with two of them. and do that a couple of times. and then just basically swat it away and just say, a couple of times say, wow, there are so much lies here, i know everybody said we can't handle all of this. let me confront one or two of these. i think she needs to do that. i don't think that debate and you know this ni

. >> and i'm lindsay davis. tonight's meeting could be the most consequential event of their campaigns with election day now less than two months away with. for vice president kamala harris, this is her first debate since president biden withdrew from the race on july 221st. of course, that decision followed his debate against president donald trump in june. since then, the race has taken on an entirely new dynamic. >> that brings us to the rules of tonight's debate. 90 minutes with 2 commercial breaks. no top the ticks or questions have been share9 with the campaign. this is the clock. that's what they'll be seeing, two minutes for rebuttals and one minute for follow-ups, clarify caigs or responses. microphones will only be turned on when it's their turn to speak, no prewritten notes allowed. there is no audience here tonight at the national constitution center. this is an intimate setting for two candidates who have never met. >> president trump won the coin toss. he chose to deliver the final statement of the

host: david mure and lindsay davis are the moderators. here is tanya, st. petersburg, florida.ler: good morning. i want to say it does matter when we listen to the debates. you will really find out who is telling the truth and not telling the truth and what they are going to work on for our community, our country, and how we are supposed to be equal. i'm glad that harris wants to join the republicans so we can be united together, not running against each other. host: lloyd, west virginia. republican. caller: good morning. i don't think the debates is all that good in a case like this. i know what trump is, what he stands for, what he's done. kamala, i don't know what she's done the last four years. i would like for them to ask kamala how they figure that donald trump -- how the 2020 election was a good and fair election. how they treated him for four years and light on him, russia, russia, and even the fbi. they admitted they knew it was nothing to it. people like adam schiff ought to be in jail. some of the other democrats. the reason they don't like trump is because he's not

the debate will be moderated by david mere and lindsay davis. ill ve coverage of that debate.uickinde we will have fueragof the presidentialebates between the viceresident and the former president. th c-span coverage begins at 8 d then at 9:00, the news debate simulcast begins. following thee, wwill take calls as well. h ve debate coverage on c-sp two, c-span now, or online at c-span.org. we want to know, do you think debates matter? will it impact your vote this fall? you can start voting right now at c-span.org on this poll. use the qr code on your screen. we will be showing you the results throughout the week and again, you can vote. c-span.org/pole, or use this qr code on your screen right now. do debates matter? we want to hear from you on this . this morning, our conversation, do you vote in elections? richard always does. delaware, hi, richard. you are still hanging on the line, richard. let me go on to larry in salisbury. larry, how often do you vote? caller: 2020, i just turned 65 and it was the first time i ever voted. i never cared about it before, but when donald t