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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

42% : "Harris wants to argue Trump is unstable and unfitThe vice president, who has been the Biden administration's most outspoken supporter of abortion access after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, is expected to focus on calling out Trump's inconsistencies around women's reproductive care, including his announcement that he will vote to protect Florida's six-week abortion ban in a statewide referendum this fall.
40% : Trump, 78, has struggled to adapt to Harris, 59, who is the first woman, Black person and person of South Asian descent to serve as vice president.
35% : Gabbard, who was also on the call, added that Trump "respects women and doesn't feel the need to be patronizing or to speak to women in any other way than he would speak to a man.
31% : Trump, in turn, is trying to paint the vice president as an out-of-touch liberal while trying to win over voters skeptical he should return to the White House.
27% : Trump on social media issued yet another message of retribution, threatening that if he wins he will jail "those involved in unscrupulous behavior," including lawyers, political operatives, donors, voters and election officials.
24% : Harris has sought to defend her shifts away from liberal causes to more moderate stances on fracking, expanding Medicare for all and mandatory gun buyback programs -- and even backing away from her position that plastic straws should be banned -- as pragmatism, insisting that her "values remain the same."
24% : She is likely to warn that Trump presents a threat to democracy, from his attempts in 2020 to overturn his loss in the presidential election, spurring his angry supporters to attack the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, through comments he made as recently as last weekend.
16% : "His advisers suggest Harris has a tendency to express herself in a "word salad" of meaningless phrases, prompting Trump to say last week that his debate strategy was to "let her talk.
13% : In rapid fashion, President Joe Biden bowed out of the race after his disastrous performance, Trump survived an assassination attempt and bothsides chose their running mates.
13% : Harris is intent on demonstrating that she can press the Democratic case against Trump better than Biden did.
13% : Ahead of the debate, she told radio host Rickey Smiley that she was workshopping how to respond if Trump lies.
8% : The Republican former president has at times resorted to invoking racial and gender stereotypes, frustrating allies who want Trump to focus instead on policy differences with Harris.
7% : Trump plans to hit Harris as too liberalTrump and his campaign have spotlighted far-left positions she took during her failed 2020 presidential bid.

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