U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump on Tuesday sparred at the second presidential debate of the 2024 election.
The event is being hosted by ABC News and is being moderated by anchors David Muir and Linsey Davis.
The second debate could be very consequential in terms of giving either candidate a lead in what has been an extremely tight contest so far. The stakes are high for the Democratic Party in particular, following current President Joe Biden’s poor performance in the June debate that eventually led to him dropping out of the election race.
See below for live updates:
2100 ET:
Debate beings. Harris and Trump shake hands and take the stage.
2106 ET:
Donald Trump: “We’re doing tariffs, the tariffs will be substantial in some cases.”
“We have inflation like very few people have seen before.”
2107 ET:
Kamala Harris: “Donald Trump left us the worst on employment since the Great Depression.”
“What we have done is clean up Donald Trump’s mess.”
“You’re going to hear from the same, old tired playbook.”
2113 ET:
Trump: “I had no inflation, virtually no inflation. They had the highest inflation in the history of our country.”
Harris: “Let’s be clear that the Trump administration resulted in a trade deficit, one of the highest we have ever seen in the history of America.”
“He ended up selling American chips to China.”
2115 ET:
Trump: “We don’t make chips anymore.”
“Bad immigration is the worst thing that can happen to our economy.”
This is a developing story, please check back for updates.
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