Trump will attack Harris' biggest vulnerabilities at the debate. Her response could decide the election.

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : Trump's also holding strong in Pennsylvania, the most important battleground in the election.
49% : In comparison, Trump has held multiple news conferences and is trying to appeal to younger men through lengthy interviews with podcast hosts.
45% : Tuesday's debate will mark the first time Harris and Trump will be in the same room together.
38% : Trump and his allies have unsuccessfully tried to goad her into holding more news conferences.
32% : Trump has a long history of attacking female foes in particularly caustic ways, which have underlined and exacerbated his struggle to appeal to women more broadly.
28% : "Trump tore into Harris after she followed him, promising not to tax tips, a policy pushed by the powerful Culinary Union in Nevada.
24% : "I think it's particularly relevant in this election given how Trump treats women in general and how Trump treats Black women in particular," Sosnik said.
22% : At this point in 2016, Trump was further behind Hillary Clinton.
12% : It was supposed to be the second debate between Trump and Biden, but the president's disastrous debate performance set off a downward spiral that culminated in his decision to drop out.
9% : Candidates are required to stay behind their podiums during Tuesday's debate, but that won't stop Trump from hurling lines like when he called Clinton a "nasty woman," an attack Democrats later fashioned into a badge of honor.

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