6 things to watch for when Kamala Harris debates Donald Trump

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : Trump, though, has a habit of overplaying a good hand.
57% : Trump, with a few exceptions, did the politically wise thing and let Biden's words hang in the air.
56% : To hear it from Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin - with whom he claims to have a special friendship - would have never invaded Ukraine if the former president was still in charge, while Israel would be given even freer reign in Gaza than it has enjoyed with Biden in the White House.
53% : Her position is vastly more popular than Trump's and her ability to speak about it is significantly stronger than Biden's.
53% : For Trump, it's a simple recipe.
52% : Plastic straws are back in, for example, after she once suggested banning them, while "Medicare for All," in all its forms, is out.
52% : For the first time, though, she will deliver that rhetoric with Trump lying in wait.
51% : For Trump, the figure was 9%.
47% : And while there's little reason to expect Harris to deviate from her strategy, which has been to speak in broad terms while rationing specifics, she will be pushed - by the debate moderators and, in his own way, Trump - to provide a clearer picture of how she ranks her priorities.
47% : Al Drago/ABC NewsWhich Trump shows up onstage in Philadelphia?Trump turned 78 about two weeks before he took the stage with Biden in Georgia.
47% : Her campaign's push to reopen the microphones, ultimately abandoned shortly before the debate date was set, underscored its desire to give Trump the freedom to implode.
46% : Trump has for many years spoken in a digressive, unwieldy vernacular.
41% : There is less mystery surrounding Trump.
40% : The interplay between Harris and Trump will be more strictly regulated Tuesday night.
39% : But no one would deny - well, almost no one - that Trump hurt his chances that night.
37% : The other half of the equation deals with what Trump says when he is, at least in form, speaking clearly.
36% : Trump to face cross-examination of his abortion record - and plansTrump has at times boasted of appointing three of the six Supreme Court Justices who voted in 2022 to gut Roe v. Wade, ending federal protections for abortion.
34% : Trump was already out of the White House when the high court's decision came down.
33% : Allies describe it as an evolution, evidence of her open and inquisitive mind.Rivals, led by Trump, tell it differently.
31% : The question is as much for Trump as it is for Harris.
30% : With Trump, goes the familiar argument, the people know where he stands, whether they agree or not.
28% : After skipping the Republican primary debates, Trump will now square off with his second Democratic rival in as many outings - but unlike President Joe Biden, whose campaign imploded onstage in Atlanta in June, Harris presents a vastly different challenge.
27% : And while the president's difficulties rightfully dominated the post-debate narrative, Trump, too, appears diminished from his first and second campaigns.
27% : Harris and Trump will use, or try to obscure, his record in service of their own cases - a balancing act that, should one veer too far from the center of political gravity, risks a tumble.
26% : Asked what state policies he supports, Trump has failed to deliver a clear answer.
25% : Most recently, he announced he would vote against protecting abortion rights in his adopted home state of Florida, where a ballot measure would wipe out the state's six-week ban, which Trump also says he opposes.
22% : This image shared by ABC News shows the stage in Philadelphia ahead of the debate between Harris and Trump.
22% : Trump literally could not interrupt Biden.
20% : When Harris seeks to separate herself from her boss, in manner or practice, Trump asks why she didn't do more over the past four years.
17% : Belligerent, boisterous and, the country learned shortly thereafter, battling a Covid-19 infection, Trump offered an unflattering parody of himself.
15% : There is a strong case to be made that Trump lost the 2020 election to Biden on the night of their first debate.
1% : President Joe Biden speaks at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on August 19, 2024.Rebecca Wright/CNNWhen Harris sticks by Biden's policies, Trump attacks them and her as a failure.

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