Harris takes fight to Trump in fiery presidential debate

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

41% : Trump insisted that while having pushed for the end of the federal right to abortion, he wanted individual states to make their own policy.
36% : "At another moment where Trump appeared to be losing his cool, he talked at length about a debunked conspiracy theory that Haitian immigrants have been eating local people's pets in Ohio.
31% : The last presidential debate in June had resulted in a crushing victory for Trump, after Biden delivered a catastrophic performance that ended up dooming his reelection campaign.
24% : Another jarring clash came as Trump doubled down on his unprecedented refusal to accept losing to Biden in the 2020 election, before trying to overturn the result.
23% : Trump, who only a few weeks ago had believed himself to be cruising to victory, reacted to pressure from Harris by resorting to the kinds of finger-jabbing insults and meandering invective that he uses at his rallies.
23% : "Within minutes, Trump hammered at the Democrat's weak spot on immigration by falsely claiming that she and Biden had allowed "millions of people pouring into our country from prisons and jails, from mental institutions and insane asylums.
20% : "The rivals also clashed on foreign policy, with Harris telling Trump that Russian President Vladimir Putin would "eat you for lunch" when it came to the war in Ukraine and that foreign dictators were "laughing" at him.
19% : "Harris pointed out that Trump is a convicted felon, called him "extreme" and said it is "a tragedy" that throughout his career he had used "race to divide the American people.
10% : Trump repeatedly raised his voice as he hit back at the vice president on immigration and the economy, branding her a "Marxist" and blaming her for what he said were the failings of President Joe Biden's administration.
9% : Trump shot back by accusing Harris of being weak on the war in Gaza, saying she "hated Israel" and that Israel would be "gone" within two weeks if she was president.
9% : Harris responded by mocking his catchphrase as a reality TV star, saying that Trump had been "fired by 81 million people.

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