Presidential debate: What to expect as Harris, Trump face off for first time

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : After a virtual coin flip held Tuesday and won by Trump, the GOP nominee opted to offer the final closing statement, while Harris chose the podium on the right side of viewers' screens.
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.
23% : The parameters now in place for the Sept. 10 debate are essentially the same as they were for the June debate between Trump and President Joe Biden.
18% : Trump and his campaign have spotlighted far-left positions Harris took during her failed 2020 presidential bid.
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.
14% : Though the September debate is currently the only debate currently planned between Harris and Trump, Harris' campaign said that a potential October debate was contingent on Trump attending the Sept. 10 debate.
13% : In rapid fashion, President Joe Biden bowed out of the race after his disastrous performance, Trump survived an assassination attempt and both sides 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.

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