The highly-anticipated presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris will kick off at 9pm on ABC on a night with enormous consequences in the 2024 race.
Just weeks after President Joe Biden spectacularly dropped out of the race, his vice president takes the stage as the Democratic nominee with polls showing the contest could be one of the closest in history.
Harris and Trump have never met, and the stakes of their first face-to-face encounter could not be higher.
An audience of millions will get the most detailed look at a campaign that has been dramatically transformed in the last two months.
Follow all of the action at DailyMail.com’s live debate blog.
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Trump's glamorous aide Margo Martin deplanes with her boss
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Melania Trump will not attend debate
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No NFL, no problem: Tuesday night Trump-Kamala debate sparks wacky prop bets on everything from 'Kamabla' to 'Weird'
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DailyMail.com's poll of polls reveals where the race stands with eight weeks until the election
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Pro-Palestinian protesters surround city hall ahead of Philadelphia debate
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Pro-Palestinian protesters surround city hall ahead of Philadelphia debate
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Melania Trump demands answers to the mystery behind Donald's assassination attempt: 'There is definitely more to this story'
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Who are the moderators for tonight's debate?
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Joe Biden raises eyebrows with 'doing 9/11' comment ahead of debate
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JD Vance would have had states send ‘alternative electors’ if he were in the chair on January 6
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Donald Trump's nephew reveals the ex-president is ‘going nuts’ privately over Kamala's rise in the polls… and how he’s preparing for a ‘nasty’ debate
I don’t pretend to be an armchair psychologist, I just know him. It’s ‘win at all costs’ and he doesn’t care who gets hurt in the wake of what he’s trying to get accomplished, which is to benefit himself.
I wouldn’t want to be around him right now because it’s never his fault. All bets are off now, he is going to go nuts on people.
It’s going to get nasty. The race is going to come up in a big ugly way.
Trump demeans people on a regular basis. … Everybody’s a loser. Everybody is stupider than him. You’ve seen it already.
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Play Trump and Harris presidential debate bingo: Fill in your card for the ABC showdown
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The weakness that could derail Kamala Harris' debate: Experts reveal the VP's fatal flaw that could lead to disaster
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Trump arrives in Philadephia ahead of highly-anticipated debate
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Donald Trump's three-point plan for pinning down Kamala Harris
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Donald Trump will 'absolutely smash' Kamala Harris at debate, body language expert predicts
My prediction is that Trump will absolutely smash the debate because he speaks without autocues and notes, he speaks from the heart. A lot of what Trump says is what he believes so he is sincere in what he says.
In 2017, Donald Trump was first seen doing his ‘bone-crusher’ handshake with the Japanese Prime Minister. The shaking of hands is important, when Kamala Harris and Trump both come on stage, will he do the same ‘bone-crusher’ handshake to Harris even though she’s a female?
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Kamala Harris' campaign uses Obama mocking Trump's 'obsession with crowd sizes' to troll Donald on debate day
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Kamala Harris will have a smaller lectern than Donald Trump for the debate tonight
Malpractice mistake by the Harris team. Somebody is going to get fired.
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Bookmakers reveal Kamala Harris is the favorite to win debate against Trump
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