Former U.S. President Trump in New York, the United States, on May 30, 2024, and U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris in Washington, the United States, on July 22, 2024, file photo combination.
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Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris said in an interview aired Monday that she is bracing for misinformation and misinformation from her Republican rival Donald Trump in their first face-to-face debate.
“I think he’s going to lie,” the vice president said on the show.Ricky Smiley Morning Show”.
Trump “is playing from this very old playbook, right?” Harris said in the interview taped last Wednesday. “There’s no limit to how far he can go, and we should be prepared for that.”
Smiley asked Harris how she planned to respond to Trump’s “attacks” and “tempers” during Tuesday’s debate hosted by ABC News at 9 p.m. ET.
“We should be prepared because he doesn’t have the burden of telling the truth, and we should be prepared because he’s probably going to tell a lot of lies,” she responded.
Harris spoke to Smiley at a campaign rally in New Hampshire, where Smiley focused on policies to help small businesses. She told Smiley she planned to point out Trump’s “tendency to fight for himself rather than for the American people.”
“I think that’s going to come through in the debate,” Harris said.
“I expected him to, you know, I thought he was going to lie.”
“He has a playbook that he’s used in the past, whether it was his attacks on President (Barack) Obama or (former Democratic nominee) Hillary Clinton,” she added. “So we should expect that some of that might show up.”
Tuesday night’s 90-minute debate will be the first, and possibly only, face-to-face debate between Trump and Harris before the Nov. 5 election.
That gives Democratic candidates a crucial second chance. A presidential debate between Trump and President Joe Biden in late June went so poorly for the incumbent that he dropped out of the race weeks later and endorsed Harris as his successor.
Harris appeared to close the polling gap between Trump and Biden in weeks. But a New York Times/Siena College poll released Sunday showed Trump and Harris In a close race, voters say they need to know more about the new Democratic nominee.
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