What To Watch For In Coverage Of The Kamala Harris-Donald Trump Debate
deadline.comKamala Harris and Donald Trump will meet and debate for the first time tonight, in what may be the first and only time they face off this cycle.
ABC News is hosting, and even though parent Disney is in the midst of a dispute that has blacked out its channels on DirecTV, there will be no shortage of places to find it: The network is streaming the event on ABC News Live, Disney+ and Hulu, while it is being widely simulcast by rivals.
With no audience and muted mics, ABC News is a following a similar game plan that CNN used when it hosted the first presidential debate this cycle, featuring Trump and President Joe Biden, who eventually dropped out after his poor performance.
Other rules also are similar: Two minute answers and two minute replies, no notes, no opening statements. But the dynamics of this debate are very different — not just things like the generational divide between the candidates, but where things stand in the race: Polls show the campaigns are neck and neck, versus a slight edge for Trump at the last debate.
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